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[H]itman

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Hey everyone,

First of all just would like to thank everyone, because I have been surfing [H]ard Forum for quite some time and its been alot of help to me whenever I had issues with my computer or something related to it.

But few weeks back something wierd has been going on with my screen, so I ask the help of all you Computer Geniuses...

Here is a screenshot of what is going on - :confused:

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I apologize if the image is too big.... or if I am not suppose to post pics here :(

Oh and before I forget I have a GeForce 6600 GT 128MB
Thanks in advance :cool:
 
Are you overclocking your video card? I have gotten that before from ocing my video card more than I should have. If your NOT overclocking I would say it could be a heat issue and/or your card is going bad. It also could be a driver issue.
 
Thanks for the quick reply, but to answer your question no.. I have never overclocked this card(although the heating sucks in my case), also I bought this about a year ago so should it be going bad already ?

Thanks
 
It looks like your card is overheating... Be sure the inside of your case is as dust free as possible, clean out the fan on your card really well too.
 
[H]itman;1030521475 said:
Thanks for the quick reply, but to answer your question no.. I have never overclocked this card(although the heating sucks in my case), also I bought this about a year ago so should it be going bad already ?

Thanks
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Bad air cooling can cause problems, especially with a hot video card.What are your temps? I would suspect your card could be going bad but someone else may have another idea.
 
Is this an AGP 6600GT? I had this same issue when the bridge chip on my old 6600GT started overheating (the thermal paste on the bridge chip dried out and turned to dust) so that might be something to check.

Just blowing out the heat sink on the card with a canned-air-duster might fix the problem, though.
 
dead pixels or your monitor is starting to die possibly, ya it could be a vid card issue in its rendering output to the screen, to me its appears to be more of a monitor issue. Clean out your Vid card anyway.
 
Caliche said:
dead pixels or your monitor is starting to die possibly, ya it could be a vid card issue in its rendering output to the screen, to me its appears to be more of a monitor issue. Clean out your Vid card anyway.
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A screencap doesn't catch problems with the monitor...
 
Caliche said:
dead pixels or your monitor is starting to die possibly, ya it could be a vid card issue in its rendering output to the screen, to me its appears to be more of a monitor issue. Clean out your Vid card anyway.
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I actually changed from a CRT to LCD monitor recently and its been happening with CRT aswell... so I would guess its Video Card. I will go ahead and clean it up today and see if that effects it at all, if not then I will go ahead and try ordering some paste+cooling unit for it.

Any suggestions to what I should get ? as far as cooling goes for Video Card
 
it is def the video card, that is called image tearing. try a diff video card (maybe your old one..????) u could get a can of compressed air and blow the dust out of the heatsink and fan once the card has been removed from the case. (be carefull not to shake the can ordo it horizonatlly as cold ass liquid will hit your card (if it dows let it dry and return to room temps.) as for cooler any zalman solution should do. tho if they used ceramic compound that glues good luck..
 
I had a video card that did that. At first I thought it was overheating, but it turned out to be bad memory. It could be either of those though.

Edit - I thought image tearing was when you you turn off vsync and you see frames where the screen is only partially redrawn?
 
Sgraffite said:
I had a video card that did that. At first I thought it was overheating, but it turned out to be bad memory. It could be either of those though.

Edit - I thought image tearing was when you you turn off vsync and you see frames where the screen is only partially redrawn?
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not really, true tearing is well tear a piece of paper and hold the two together. thats real tearing. happens when vids overheat or clocked too high and the image in game is torn.
 
Looks to me like someone made a background in MSpaint and used the spraycan tool with pink color.
 
Looks like heat issues to me to, I would clear the dust on the video card and see if that clears it up. Look into installing a pci fan card below your video card as well, that can help with VGA heat. Hope that helps!
 
OP if your video card's HSF is dust free and it's still causing this problem, I'd RMA it ASAP! You want to RMA it before the warranty goes. I had this issue with a 9800pro of mine that seemed to always have problems from the beginning that I couldn't prove to ATI and so wasn't able to RMA. When issues like this cropped up despite not overclocking or gaming, I was able to RMA the card, got a replacement and all the 'issues' I had before went away..
 
Looks like your video card memory might be at fault...

Unfortunately there's nothing you can do except RMA or replace the card..
 
Easykill1978 said:
not really, true tearing is well tear a piece of paper and hold the two together. thats real tearing. happens when vids overheat or clocked too high and the image in game is torn.
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Do you have a source for this? I'd like to read about it.
 
digital_exhaust said:
It looks like your card is overheating... Be sure the inside of your case is as dust free as possible, clean out the fan on your card really well too.
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Yes, this sounds like an overheating issue for sure. I would recommend getting SpeedFan, and making sure the fans in your system are at 100%.

I was wondering why my PC was crashing due to overheating, and I opened up SpeedFan, and HP set my fan to run at 45%... hmm?

P.S. Are you torrenting WoW? Big tip, don't.
 
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