I need help!@# Radeon 9800 AIW Corrupt Display

[Krym]

I posted this in Video, but didn't get any replies as other topics quickly knocked it down..

I just received my ATI 9800 Pro All in Wonder from Essential Computers. I plugged it in, hooked up the monitor, booted, and saw all these green and white dots. The boot screen for Windows XP was missing pixels here and there, but once it reached the desktop everything seemed normal. I installed the 3.9 drivers from ati.com and fired up a few games... here's how they looked:

http://www.aodojo.com/thevault/maxpayne.jpg
http://www.aodojo.com/thevault/halo.jpg

I took some shots in 3dmark 2003 too:

Airplane: http://www.aodojo.com/thevault/test1.jpg
FPS: http://www.aodojo.com/thevault/test2.jpg
Troll Lair: http://www.aodojo.com/thevault/test3.jpg
Nature: http://www.aodojo.com/thevault/test4.jpg

Completely garbled. I tried lowering my agp speed from 8x to 4x, disabling write combining and fast writes, but output is still garbled. Do I have a bad card? Or is there something else I should try?

 

[pyrojunkie]

If you are getting display anomalies even before your windows OS boots, its likely your card is having hardware problems. It could just be outright bad, or possibly just overheating. Try checking and/or reseating the heatsinks on the card.

 

[Krym]

I'm certain it's not a heat problem. Heat may cause minor artifacts, but nothing like the screenshots I posted (esp. the 3dmark ones). I have DX9 and all the latest updates too...

 

[pyrojunkie]

As I said if your display issues start before the OS is loaded, either heat is an issue or the card has gone bad.