I've been having some annoying video corruption problems for a while (more details on that at the end) and after trying another gfx card and getting the same thing I decided it was the mobo and replaced it (had an EPoX 8KHA+ and got a Gigabyte K7 Triton GA-7N400-L).
Upon replacing the board, I noticed something interesting on the mobo power connecter from the PS. In the little white male plastic housing connectors themselves, they're brown in color. This is only one the red (+12 V) wires. It appears that the pins have gotten so hot at certain points that they've actually burnt the surrounding plastic housing a bit.
How serious a deal is this? Has anyone else ever encountered this? Should I just get a new PS?
I'm including a couple of pics of the mobo power connector. I would appreciate any comments on this.
Pic #1
Pic #2
Thanks
John
PS:
Here's the details on my video corruption problems (if anyone's interested):
After running w/Windows for a while (couple of hours), the title bars of my windows become garbled. I basically start to see "through" them and onto the window below. Then certain parts of the screen don't clear themselves up after I resize a window (pieces of the window leave themselves on the background). Finally it gets so bad that certain windows just won't even display properly at all. Trying to access the Display Settings in Win2K comes up with the message along the lines of "You're trying to use an incompatible driver for this video card. Switching to the default VGA driver." Rebooting causes the problem to go away again for an hour or so.
Upon replacing the board, I noticed something interesting on the mobo power connecter from the PS. In the little white male plastic housing connectors themselves, they're brown in color. This is only one the red (+12 V) wires. It appears that the pins have gotten so hot at certain points that they've actually burnt the surrounding plastic housing a bit.
How serious a deal is this? Has anyone else ever encountered this? Should I just get a new PS?
I'm including a couple of pics of the mobo power connector. I would appreciate any comments on this.
Pic #1
Pic #2
Thanks
John
PS:
Here's the details on my video corruption problems (if anyone's interested):
After running w/Windows for a while (couple of hours), the title bars of my windows become garbled. I basically start to see "through" them and onto the window below. Then certain parts of the screen don't clear themselves up after I resize a window (pieces of the window leave themselves on the background). Finally it gets so bad that certain windows just won't even display properly at all. Trying to access the Display Settings in Win2K comes up with the message along the lines of "You're trying to use an incompatible driver for this video card. Switching to the default VGA driver." Rebooting causes the problem to go away again for an hour or so.
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