HELP, wierd graphics problem

[BlowitupBazza]

Hi there,

Recently when playing games or even sometimes surfing the net my machine gets wacky coloured lines all over the screen obscuring everything, if you are in a game and you press the windows keys you can still see the desktop but it is heavily distorted but the machine does not freeze/lock you just can't see whats going on.

Now I have a 9700pro card with an arctic cooler on it, but I can't help thinking that it's my card on the way out.

Trouble is it's the 3rd card that this has happened to in this mobo in the last 3 yrs. It's an asus A7N8 board with 2 gig of ram.

Could it be the mobo? Or is it the card?

I really don't want to upgrade this side of christmas so If I could get another card to see me through 6 months I'd be happy, but if it's the mobo then there does not seem to be much point in doing that.

Any ideas?

 

[BlowitupBazza]

have u tryed reseating the car ? taking it out and putting it back in.

Use to happen to a few of my g'cards, found out it was a few house mights having a party in the connection slot !

I've had the card in and out a few times to blow it out/de dust it

 

[BlowitupBazza]

Well if you put another card in & that runs fine, then its probably the card. The 3 cards dying sometime after just seems like bad luck.

Trouble is I don't have a spare to test it on so I'd have to buy one, so i'm trying to weigh the risks of throwing good money after bad on a new card only to find my system is bust or buy a new card that will last 6/12mnths.

It's a ****** nightmare

Please star out any swearing or disguised swearing

 

[BlowitupBazza]

up for the night shift

 

[BlowitupBazza]

Could be a badly connected cable or bad cable. Do you have another to try with?

Daz

Unfortunatly not, the whole machine seems to have slowed down too

 

[BlowitupBazza]

it *could* be the mobo - I had a mobo (DFI NF4 sli-dr) that went they way of the pear, and the pci-e stopped working - it looked like the graphics card was naffed, but the same effect happened with two pci cards I tried.

Do the artifacts appear when the machine is POSTing? If not, it could just be a driver problem..

Ok really silly queston, what does posting mean?

 

[BlowitupBazza]

Power On Self Test - when the pc has just been turned on & you can hear it booting up.

In that case then, no, it only ever happens when windows has started, it could be 10 secs after but windows has always started, more often than not it happens in a game, and usually when there is a lot going on on the screen.