What is this problem?

[dextr3k]

Occurs in both vga and dvi links. I dont have another agp card so I cant use process of elimination. Hoping someone could identify the problem for me =(

 

[HaMMerHeD]

Looks like bad or overheating memory. If the card is overclocked, try underclocking it.

You are probably looking at an RMA on your video card. If you can borrow an AGP card from someone for testing, you may want to do that, just to verify that it's not a motherboard problem. But it really just looks like bad video memory to me.

 

[Lone_Bullet.be]

yeh bad memory.... try switching/playing your systemram.

 

[dextr3k]

gah....thanks for the quick replys. Thing is it was working perfectly about 2 days ago =\
I just wired the case up and closed it, and this started to happen. =(

 

[Lone_Bullet.be]

tell us how it goes

 

[WGSquallx2002]

I've seen this before on two systems. In one case it was on my own system caused by leaking capacitors on my motherboard. Check your motherboard to see if you find any boated or tilted capacitors (cylinder shaped) that may or may not have leaked electrolyte. Once I RMA'ed my motherboard the problem was resolved.

The problem also occurred for me gradually. I turned on the system one day and it started having anomolies with text and so forth. On Windows everything looked fine on desktop until I started accessing applications and video games where I saw more artifacts and more of those blurrd boxes and stuff. Eventually I didn't even get a signal as the problem got worse.

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On the second occasion, I was diagnosing a problem for my friend's computer with an NVIDIA 6800GT video card. The same types of "artifacts or anomolies" are very similar and indentical in some situations to your posted screen shots. The problem was due to a problem with his video card which eventually also resulted in no video signal. I would try to single out his hardware to look for the problem, but each restart would come up with random results. Sometimes the bios screen would display text and numbers fine with only a few anomolies, then the next restart may have the whole screen tiled in anomolies. The results are somewhat random each time.

Hope this helps.

 

[pfunkman]

Is the CPU overclocked? I get similar weirdness when i try pushing my CPU too far.

 

[tipharet]

When my old 6600gt died, this happened. RMA time on the vid card.

 

[ofDoom]

You may have something touching the video card (eg. case) Try running it at minimum config. outside of the case?

 

[dextr3k]

yeah, I there seems to be a contact point between the card and the case, I'm going to try to remove it, I hope its not a blown video card. This was supposed to be a budget pc from old components, but if I have to replace anything it would prove troublesome

I will be removing the components out later this week, I'll post how it goes.

Oh and everything is stock, I reset the bios and its still giving me this error, so I dont think its a heat issue as these are cold boots.