How Do you know when a video card is dead? voodoo 3 3k?

Oct 23, 1999
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I have a Voodoo 3 3000 agp that I cant get to work on any games anymore.
How do I know if its dead or another problem? It works fine in windows and surfing the net etc...but as soon as I launch any games now it is screwed up bad. It has tears in the screen and flashing light to dark etc...Quake 3 starts then goes black screen but I can see the hud display a bit....
every game crashes , so does windows media now.
I have tried everything ...drivers different versions of direct x etc....
I wanted to save this card for my kids but....
Is it possible its another problem? seems video related but when they freeze or crashe the sound is stuck too.
I dont have agp on our other comp to try it out either...
any suggestions?
I have tried it on win xp me and even win 98 now...with the old 1.04 steady drivers...no luck.
thanks for any info.
WW
 
Oct 23, 1999
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Can someone help me?
Update I took the heatsink off and replaced the thermal tape with thermal paste....same crap...
tearing and weird triangles on the side of NHL 2002.
Does that sound heat related or other?
thanks
WW