Graphics Card Issue

[onesickr6]

Hi all. Been a long time reader of this site, never a poster though. Encountered a problem and wanted to see if anyone else has ever heard of this happening. I have an MSI 6600GT (overclocked) card and the other day while playing Quake4 the game went black, froze, and I had to restart my computer. I know my way around computers, inside and out, and am no dummy to overclocking, everything was within spec. Now though, anytime I try to run any 3D application, be it quake, doom, half life, 3d mark, anything at all that uses the 3d engine of the card, I have errors all over the screen. Basically small shapes, like rectangeles, all over the screen. I've eliminated it being any sort of driver issue or windows issue. I know it is my card that is causing the issue, but wanted to hear from anybody that has had a similar problem. Is it really possible for the 3d renderer of the card to go bad, probably from overclocking?? I've never heard of just a portion of the card going bad before as everything else, normal everyday desktop use, is fine. Thanks for any input.

Frank

 

[inspiron8200guy]

Welcome! It sounds like the card overheated. Those triangles you described are called artifacts and are generally caused by an overheated/overclocked GPU. What are the core temeratures when you run these games? Also, try downclocking your card to stock settings, chances are you have too high of an overclock. If you clock it back down to stock speeds and the problem is still there, chances are yor GPU is fried. Hop that helps.