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[crsnwby]

Evening,

Well then. Sometimes I get weird artifacts, dots etc and the above error message. It happened last night after I played a video for 2 seconds (just testing the vid) quit media player and it did it.

Whats strange is when I play Bad Company 2 for endless hours it doesnt occur.

Also some other times the artifacts have remained after a reboot and I could see them on the boot sequence.

Any clues? Im going to try getting all my drivers off and cleaning it out then reinstalling.

Its a year old 4870 1GB. It cant be heat/memory as it would happen during games, im hoping its software/drivers.

 

[crsnwby]

I found a post about 2d clocks, I will also give that a go as it seems only to be in 2d mode.... but what worries me is why its also in the boot sequence when no drivers are loaded.

 

[3dcandy]

already posted up by me before, this can be windows install, memory and a multitude of problems...

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=104677