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    Graphics Card Stuffed?

    Last night was playing Final Fantasy XI and suddenly the entire display became all garbled and corrupted and was flashing a horrible mess of random colours and pixels (sorry for the lame description). I was able to make out a portion of the chatlog but apart from that nothing. I logged out of the game and whilst the Windows display was more viewable there were a lot of pixels on screen that were clearly wrong. I restarted but even during bootup there were blocks placed at even spaces on the screen that were out of sync.

    I left it overnight and everything was fine this morning but about 20 minutes in on FFXI again and the same problem occured. Again shut it down for a while and it's fine but the problem returns. It takes longer to return when not in a GFX intenssive program but even in Windows, over time, pixels will display incorrectly and eventually strips of colour will form down the screen.

    My thought is that the problem could be overheating but would like more information from the more computer-minded on the forum.

    Oh, it's a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.

    #2
    Definately sounds like an overheating problem, or a corrupted memory problem. Try opening your case and blowing a fan on it, or consider making use of that warranty you should have...

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      #3
      Yeah sounds like a heat thing... maybe try underclocking your card a bit, if that solves it then you know it's either a heat problem or a hardware problem.

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        #4
        Fan failure? Someone here had their fan go on their 9800p the other day, caused screen corruption after a while.

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          #5
          Fan failure on the card was my first thought as well as the machine has been making some strange noises as of late which sounded like the fan struggling. However have got running with the case open at this moment and it appears that the fan is operating.

          Thanks for the help. Hopefully we are along the right lines and it will be just a case of calling up Dell on Monday morning and getting them to swap out the card. Thankfully still under warranty.

          Edit - also how hot should this thing be getting when operating just basic Windows? Right now if I put my hand near it I can feel heat and it is hot to touch when the machine is shutdown.

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            #6
            Have you tried reinstalling the drivers?

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              #7
              Ah, these cards run quite hot anyway. Try the drivers (just to shut Dell up when you ring them) then ring Dell tbh.

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