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Originally posted by: DorkBoy
Hello,
The past several days I have been unable to play any of my PC games (BF Vietnam and FarCry).
When the game starts my graphics are all screwed up with little areas not displaying properly, theses areas are about 1 cm long and .5 cm wide, they are random all over my screen. (Dell 2005FPW monitor)
I uninstalled the games and the Nvidia drivers - reinstalled everything and no change, it still sucks. All other graphics are fine, just PC games.
I have tried changing my settings in and out of the games; this maybe changes the amount of screwed up areas but no fix.
I can?t remember changing or installing anything prior to this, maybe a Java download but I am not sure, I uninstalled anything I could find that I thought could be a possibility.
I just built the system and installed Windows XP and I would hate to reformat/reinstall to fix it, anyone with any ideas?

Try unplugging every thing except tne neccesities. (one Optical drive, one hdd, one stick ram, no fans exept cpu and video) then with your case open try to run a game. If it works well then you have an over burdned PSU. Maybe you can test the 12v rail under load as you add stuff back. You want to look for drops below 11.5 or so. GL
Specs:
CPU: Intel Intel P4 3.4 Ghz 3400MHz
Motherboard: Intel 925EX (Dell 8400 MB)
Memory: 1024 MB PC3200 DDR2
Video Card: MSI 128MB MSI 6600GT
Hard Drive: Seagate 160.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS
Additional Hard Drives: WD 160GB 7200RPM(Storage)
Monitor: 2005FPW
DVD Manufacturer & Model: Verbatim DVD+RW 8X
DVD R/W: Lite On DVD-ROM 16X
Storage Interface: IDE,SATA-RAID
Sound Card: SB Live 5.1 Audigy X-Gamer
Monitor Dell 2005FPW
Operating System: WinXP Pro
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What you seem to be experiencing is called artifacts and cause graphical corruption
Possible reasons
1. Overheating gpu
2. PSU
3. Driver version but that's almost impossible since you mentioned that it happens with more than one game
 
Originally posted by: jim1976
What you seem to be experiencing is called artifacts and cause graphical corruption
Possible reasons
1. Overheating gpu
2. PSU
3. Driver version but that's almost impossible since you mentioned that it happens with more than one game
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Thanks

PSU=Power Supply ?
 
What's interesting is that in listing your detailed specs, the Power Supply is missing. Probably the only thing that's missing. It's odd to leave it off a spec-list since it really is THE most important device in your entire system... especially a system with as many devices connected to it as yours.

So, list make/model of PSU. Are you overclocking your video card at all? Do you know the temps of your room, case, and video card both idle and under load? Do you have a secondary system to try the card in?
 
Originally posted by: deadseasquirrel
What's interesting is that in listing your detailed specs, the Power Supply is missing. Probably the only thing that's missing. It's odd to leave it off a spec-list since it really is THE most important device in your entire system... especially a system with as many devices connected to it as yours.

So, list make/model of PSU. Are you overclocking your video card at all? Do you know the temps of your room, case, and video card both idle and under load? Do you have a secondary system to try the card in?
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The PS is whatever came in the Dell 8400, I believe it is a 350Watt.
I have a Thermaltake Pure Power Silent ATX 480W Power Supply with Dual Fans, SATA Model: Pure Power-480AD, it sounds like you guys blame that so I'll swap them out tonight and see.

Thanks


 
Originally posted by: jim1976
What you seem to be experiencing is called artifacts and cause graphical corruption
Possible reasons
1. Overheating gpu
2. PSU
3. Driver version but that's almost impossible since you mentioned that it happens with more than one game
Click to expand...



My video card GPU runs at 62 degrees C or 144 degrees F, is this a normal temp for a video card?
 
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