Check out this nasty screenshot (gf3 ti500)

[Bozo Galora]

i have seen this many times, many dif visual manifestations.

has nothing to do with drivers

 

[SuperSix]

Bad video memory.. Get it RMA'd..

Is it me, or are there a lot of Visiontek cards failing as of late?

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: grant2
Did you wear an ESD wrist strap when you were transferring the components? ... didn't think so =)

How ghey is that?

 

[dew042]

Originally posted by: bacillus
I agree with the above 2 on overheating or bad card!

overheating.

seen it in my own computer.

there seems to be a lot of 'classic' probelms going on here...

dew.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Woah, that's not the kind of "bad" I was expecting. I saw results like that when I used a card with dying memory.

Exactly what I was thinking. I had a Voodoo 2 card do that exact thing a few years back. Massive dust had built up around the mem chips because I had a fan pointed right at the cards. I cleaned it off and it cleared right up.

It also looks a lot like what happens when you overclock the vid memory too high. I doubt it's the GPU overheating, because that normally just gives you a hard lock, or it always has for me.