friend's 9600xt issue

Computer:
512 mb ddr
elsa 9600XT 128 megs
pentium 4 2.4 c
gigabyte 8IPE1000-L its an intel 865 pe chipset
on board sound

He has installed a fresh format of windows xp and new intel and ati drivers.

The problem, well actually there are two.
1) vertical bars, I assumed they were hardware artifacts but they come and go and when the guy at the store installed it on a similar system no problems occured.
2) CS 1.6 works sporadically, it used to not wokr at all, now it usually gives him an error but works sometimes.

Ask any questions you have about the computer, I have never actually used it myself and as such only posted what I could think of asking my friend when I posted this.
 

Pete

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Can you capture the vertical bars in a screenshot, or are they caused by local interference or heat?
What error does CS give?
What's his power supply rated for?
Have you tried running memtest to ensure that faulty system memory isn't the culprit?