6600GT Video Corruption!

[pickle965]

I'm getting some pretty nasty video corruption with my PCI-E MSI 6600GT 128MB. The corruption only seems to occur in 3D apps utilizing DirectX or OpenGL. The last thing I was playing was Battlefront 2 until my rig just suddenly powered off which I blamed on my POS hard drives until now. It seems like since then I've been having this problem. I tried reinstalling drivers and DirectX and tested various display settings with no luck.

Here are some screenshots:
Google Earth - DirectX
Google Earth - OpenGL
DooM - OpenGL

Never had a problem with this card, never did any overclocking either... I'm really hopeing it's not a serious hardware issue. Any suggestions?

 

[mwmorph]

looks liek a overclocking problem. If i push my card too far(way too far, 10mhz plus past artifacting) it will do this. May be heat related, but really seems like overclocking, try declocking to a lower speed to see if ti goes away. If it's still in warranty mayba a rma.

 

[NoStateofMind]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
looks liek a overclocking problem. If i push my card too far(way too far, 10mhz plus past artifacting) it will do this. May be heat related, but really seems like overclocking, try declocking to a lower speed to see if ti goes away. If it's still in warranty mayba a rma.

 

[Eureka]

Yeah... but he didn't overclock it.

I'd RMA it.

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