Graphics card problems

[JonHaworth]

Hi all,

I have an Asus V9280TD which is giving me some problems - there are green pixels appearing randomly in Windows (particularly on large areas of colour), and I get sparkly bits down the vertices of models in 3D games. There are also big chunks of colour appearing randomly during startup and in the CMOS setup.

I've posted some photos here that should hopefully show what I'm talking about.

I'm not sure whether the problem is with this or the motherboard - the motherboard spec says it only supports 1.5v display cards, but I have no idea whether mine is one of these or not.

Has anyone got any suggestions as to what I can try? Are there any BIOS changes I could make that might point out where the problem is? I'll send the card back to Asus, but only as a last resort...

Thanks for any help.

 

[Mnementh]

The fact that you're getting corruption during POST rules out the possibility of it being a driver issue, that only leaves hardware I'm afraid.

Couple of things to check:

1: Are you overclocking the graphics card? If so then don't.
2: Is the fan on the card operating correctly? The corruption you have shown pictures of is normally caused by overheating or bad memory.
3: Remove the card and reseat it (you never know has been known to fix problems in the past).

There's bound to be a few more things the wonderful people on these boards will ask you to try and hopefully one will work but I think if none of these 3 work then you've got a dodgy (technical term...) card and it will need to be sent back for replacement.

Hope this helps

Mnementh

 

[TheCorm]

Looks like your graphics card could be on it's way out maybe? Do you have your PC hooked up to a surge strip, is the surge still active? I have seen power surges do this to graphics cards before. I don't think it will be a monitor problem.

Your Graphics card is an AGP 8x I believe, AGP 4x or above support 1.5v so there is no problem there. Have you played around with any AGP/Graphics related settings in the bios? might wanna try stuff like disabling fast writes.

Also, if overclocking...return to stock speeds.