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Big Fat Duck

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Okay so when I started playing BF2 my system was fine, 1900+ , 9700pro with an epox 8kha+ motherboard. I started noticing a few nonfrequent artifacts on dusty or foggy maps, and dismissed them. One day my usb intellimouse explorer decides to do something strange. It turns off randomly for a second or two, and when it did that the monitor lost some brightness and then gained it after the mouse got its power back. Im guessing that had something to do with my powerstrip and the color schemes. So then i decided to use the USB to mouseport adapter. It seemed to have fixed the problem, but then.. my video goes all striped and multicolored, as if the video card overheated or something. It did that after about 10 minutes usage in normal windows. So i decided to take off the video card's heatsink and put a little more Artic Silver 3 on it. I put the mouse back in the usb port and ditched the adapter. My mouse returned to doing that "lose power and mess with color schemes" except now there was the "USB in/out" sound that accompanied it. For a while afterwords everything seemed to be fine, but now i just got over playing BF2 and the video card is acting up again.

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Whats wrong? Could it be my video card, CPU, my motherboard or maybe even my cheap ass power supply?
 
It could be your cheap ass power supply, but I really think it is your vid card about to die. Does it do this on games other than BF2 or the BF series? If so you vid card is dying. Lost a few this way.

Update your vid driver, it may help.
 
it only happens on BF2 and it used to happen on 2d windows when i had my mouse using the usb/ps2 adapter
 
try using a different USB port that isnt connected to that port on the MB.

Vid card doing that is bad... How hot is it there with all these heatwaves my Perfect stable OC is suddenly not stable of course it's 90 in my room and the 1 120mil, 60 mil, 2 80 mil and PSU fans just can't keep the case cool it has to be about 100 inside the case. Course with 90 ambient it is to be expected... I just get hardlocks I wish I had some AC!

As for the mouse my old oen had the same symptoms, it's probably just a loose or borken wire, my old one did this after some time. Called MS and tehy shipped me a new one, I don't like my new one cause the scroll wheel is too sensitive for Games even with the sensitivity urned down all the way.

Buy just to let you know my old mouse does EXACTLY the same thing. Still debating on taking it apart to fix it. I had 2 IM die this way and I fixed the first one by splicing and soldering some wires, then re-inforcing the area where it connects into the mouse. My friend still uses the old classic one to this day!

It could also be your PSU those 9700's are not the most efficient cards and with your mouse being busted it could be dropping some power to the 9700 pro causeing it to glitch.

You might switch to an independent power cord of the PSU (one nothing else is plugged into and see if it helps)
 
run MBM and watch your voltages and see if they run around what they should be...and if they jump all around the place or if they drop drastically. What the Voltages should look like are written on the side of the PSU.
 
ive unplugged everything but the monitor and computer from my surge protector and everything seems to be working well
 
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