All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro artifacts problem

[Drakula]

I have the All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro for couple years now. The card was never overclocked, not even for a short period of time, and never did any sort of modifications to it. I have been using it in between few systems, never had any problems before.

However, recently, when I was changing the RAM of the current system that it sits in, I found out that it has artifacts when trying to shutdown Windows. Then the problem gotten worse and now when the system boots up, it will have weird artifacts.

When the problem occurs, I tried to change RAMs, power supply, and even used another set of motherboard and CPU that I have previously used the video card with and used for sometime.

The pictures of the problem I am having is as follows:
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I tried to Google for similar problems online, and found that some of them are power supply related, some are driver related and some are possibly vidoe card BIOS related. I have changed the power supply and the driver that I used for it is Catalyst 6.9, which should not caused the problem at boot screen. I have not tried to flash its BIOS because I am afraid that it might make things worse and I did not backup its original BIOS beforehand.

I really would like to keep using the card for some more years. Therefore, will someone please help me with this problem? Even shed some light on it will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[amdskip]

See if the cards has bad capacitors: http://www.badcaps.net

 

[Drakula]

Originally posted by: amdskip
See if the cards has bad capacitors: http://www.badcaps.net

Thanks for your reply and the link to a helpful site.:thumbsup:

I have considered that possibility too. However, as far as I can tell visually, the capacitors are not bulging or swelling and the dielectrics are not oozing out. The capacitors seem to sit straight as well, no tilting or anything.

It could be that the capacitors that the card uses is not the same as the ones used on motherboards, that is why I cannot tell accurately, so I will take another look.

Anyone knows the possible problem the card might have besides capacitor?

Thanks again.:thumbsup: