Graphics Glitches - help please

[gjrc]

guys i have an ATI x1950 i have the latest drivers and yet from time to time i can be playing WOW or Wolf ET and suddenly the screen will glitch and i get stuff appearing on my screen. see below:

against a black back ground the dots are green.

i thought it might be heat but my room is not too hot and the GFX card has masses of on board cooling, plus i have the side off my computer quite a lot.

i guess it still could be heat...??

any suggestions?

thanks a lot

g

 

[Scougar]

Have you tried some older drivers? I know that in browsers (esp firefox) even *** 38xx series are currently suffering from corruption. Not to the extent your showing but something similar on some websites like Futuremarks 'Orb' site.

Try something like 7.6 and see if it persists. Not saying keep the old drivers, just that it will show whether it's your card or drivers.

Matthew

 

[gjrc]

well its not only in browsers. it usually happens in game and i have to restart the computer at which point it goes fine again.


see below:

 

[benjo]

I've had that problem before! Generally when i overclocked too far on the memory, or when i had my old X800 and it got to about 100c lol :|

 

[gjrc]

its not clocked and i dont understand how it can be heat??

it has a huge in built fan and heatsink all self contained??

 

[Faffer]

Download Rivatuner and use the hardware monitor to check the temperature. Leave the hardware monitor running whilst gaming, then when you come out, I think you can see the last 5 minutes worth of readings on the graph. On the stock cooler, mine used to hit around 85C and freeze in games.

The stock heatsink and fan was pretty useless. A decent aftermarket cooler made a massive difference.

 

[Skyboat]

The heatsink and fan could be overheating due to clogged up dust, so might need dismantling to clean it out.

 

[killersheep34]

In my experience, this is usuallly bad memory (perhaps got too hot, or getting to hot) on the VGA card. I've had this with an old Geforce 2 MX, and to fix it, i stuck memsinks on the memory chips. Not very good for stock speeds!!

I would try testing in another machine first, or on a fresh build of windows and only video drivers installed. If issues persist, I'd look at getting it RMA'd (assuming it's not out of warrenty)

 

[HeX]

In my experience, this is usuallly bad memory (perhaps got too hot, or getting to hot) on the VGA card. I've had this with an old Geforce 2 MX, and to fix it, i stuck memsinks on the memory chips. Not very good for stock speeds!!

I would try testing in another machine first, or on a fresh build of windows and only video drivers installed. If issues persist, I'd look at getting it RMA'd (assuming it's not out of warrenty)

Yup, dots all over the screen like that is a sign of the memory dieing/overheating.

 

[JoDaMa]

Had this problem with my pc a few years ago, found the graphics card itself was damaged when the technician came, so he replaced it with a new card and it was fine after that.

 

[gjrc]

i bought it off ocuk (of course) but i think it was a little while ago now.

how long is the warranty?