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I Need Major Help!

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Ok look so Ive been working on this POS computer for more than 4 months OK so first of all My Ram was messed up I RMA and then it works and everything, but my video card (Evga 6800gt) was artifacting HEVIALLY even at post you just wouldnt see anything, it was a curropt display, so I RMA it and I get a ledtek 6800GT and then I put it in my mobo (abit AV8) and put everything in and BAM SAME EXACT THING HAPPENS!!! damn shit!! so someone tells me its my mobo AGP slot, so I RMA that and get an MSI-K8N Neo2 Platinum and plug in my ledtek 6800gt AND OMG SAME DAMN THING HAPPENS!! ok so watever, I ask around and I hear its most likely my PSU, so I pull out my aspire 520W PSU and got me one of those nice Superflower TTGI 550W Modular PSUs and I just pluged the video card and everything back in and OMG SAME FUCKING THING HAPPENS!!! IM GOING FUCKING CRAZY HERE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!! BTW Ive been running EVERYTHING perfectly and stabily with my PCI Geforce 4 MX440 for the past month or so. So what do you guys think? WTF could be my problem!
 
Every time you redid your system hardware did you reformat and reinstall? Also what OS are you running?
 
I see that your PCI graphics card works but I will still ask the following:

Could it maybe... possibly be the monitor? Stranger things have happened.
 
You remembered to plug in the external power connector for the card, right? Also, make sure it's the only device on that lead from the power supply. Do you have access to any other AGP card you could test with? Even a crappy one you can borrow from a friend or anything? Plus, it's possible that you happend to get two bad video cards. It's unlikely, but it could certainly ahppen.
 
well I dont know, I tryed both the DVI port on the monitor and the VGA and the monitor seems to work fine with the PCI card and it worked on every other PC before, so I dont see how it could be teh monitor.
 
Here's some suggestions. They may sound rediculous, but try them.

1. Are you sure your video card is all the way in the AGP slot? I know I always have trouble with that. They seem a bit hard to puch in, rather than PCI cards.

2.Turn the system on, leave it on for a few minutes, then shutdown, and feel the video card. Is it scortching hot? Maybe this is a heat related issue?

3. Is the power lead of the VGA card going directly into the PSU? Or is there more than one device on that lead.

They may sound silly, but give them a try.
 
OK i tryed all of that, I tried to higher the AGP volts in the BIOS, I tried a different montior, I tried my TV, its all crapped up, the weird thing, is that when i use the Y molex-adaptor the picture gets a whole lot better, but still unbearable........ I dont know I think it is the video card or something.
 
Is there any way you can take a picture of the problem with a camera or something?
 
It sounds as if whatever caused the 1st vid card to artifact infected the second card. If you can, try a different card in your system.

Might have to RMA the second card as well, but it sounds like your nearing a solution.
 
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