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I really need some help please. Artifacts Without Overclocking!

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Torghn

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I just got my main comp up and running after the HD went out, but now I get artifacts or rendering errors even just at the windows desktop. I have no idea why, everything worked perfectly before the crash. I did a fresh install of windows and have the latest drivers for my Radeon 8500le. It's not a heat issue as all the fans work and the card stays cool.
Is it possible my card went bad during the week and a half it wasn't in use? Here's the really confusing part. If I overclock my video memory the problem doesn't change, if I UNDER clock my video card memory the problem gets MUCH worse. The GPU clock doesn't seem to have any effect.
I've had this card for over a year without any problems, and I've only run it mediately overclocked for about 10% of the time. The problem SEEMED to get better when I switched from the catalyst 3.7 drivers to the 3.6 drivers.
Sorry for the long post, any help would be appreciated.
 
Does this problem occur in safemode? then it is likely hardware. How did the hard drive die? Are there any other problems with the system? I'm thinking that it could be a powersupply going bad and it may be effecting other hardware such as hard drive and video. If so then, you may need to replace more than the hard drive.
 
The HD was an IBM😛 In safemode or before I installed any dirvers the problem was not there, however, the display is very slow and choppy. Even when scrolling on a webpage it feels incredibly slow. With the drivers installed that problem is gone, but the arctifacts show up.
 
One thing, IBM harddrives suck ass. My advice is to try another video card out on the same machine to see if the problem really is the video card. If, its not, it might be the motherboard.
 
What caused the harddisk to die? Power surge, or just another damn IBM disk dieing for no good reason?

Cuz if it was a power surge you may have other components damaged.

I doubt it's a driver issue if you did a clean install.
Software conflict, maybe.

It is a good idea to test another video card in you computer.
Or test your video card in another computer

 
The HD died because it was an IBM, no powersurge or anything. I'm still thinking/hopeing it may be driver issue as I didn't have this problem untill I instlled the drivers.

A friend of mine has a radeon 9700, would I be able to pull my 8500 out and put his 9700 in without changing the drivers at all? If so that would help determine if it's driver or hardware related.
 
Well I pulled the video card out and put it in another comp. Worked almost perfectly. C&C Generals had a few very slight problems, but there were no artifacts in windows. I still need to try a different agp card in my MB to see if that's the problem, but if it's not I really have no clue on how to fix it.
 
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