During gaming on various different games, my screen (Samsung Syncmaster 930B) just suddenly becomes completely garbled/scrambled. See a picture of the problem here: Picture of screen
The problem I am having has been happening with slowly increasing frequency for probably the last 6 months or so. Now it is happening so often I can really no longer ignore it. At first I suspected it was bad nVidia drivers but updating them didn't help. I searched around some and found other people reporting a similar problem and found other screen photos that looked very similar to mine. But they were all using Windows Vista. I am NOT using Vista. I'm still on Windows XP Pro. I am usually able to restore the video by either Alt-Tabbing out of and back into whatever game I was playing or by doing Ctrl-Alt-Del and forcing it to minimize by bringing up the task manager if the game doesn't support Alt-Tab. And then it's a crap-shoot for how long I can go before it happens again but the intervals are getting more frequent. Pressing the Print Screen button while the artifacting is happening and then pasting the buffer into an image editor like Photoshop, the resulting image does NOT show any corruption. Hence I had to capture it with my digital camera. My system is running at all stock speeds, no overclocking. What gives here? Is my card going belly up?
I was a bit hesitant to buy a 7900 at first because I had heard stories about them having bad artifacting problems. But I found where eVGA had supposedly addressed this problem and you could tell if you had a "newer" revision of the card by the serial number. Well mine is supposed to be a newer revision one and I verified that before I bought it. But now this. . .Anybody else seeing this under Win XP?
System specs:
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
1 x eVGA 7900 GT KO (no SLI installed at this time)
2 Gig Corsair DDR RAM
AMD Athlon 64x2 - (Toledo core)
Samsung Syncmaster 930B monitor
The problem I am having has been happening with slowly increasing frequency for probably the last 6 months or so. Now it is happening so often I can really no longer ignore it. At first I suspected it was bad nVidia drivers but updating them didn't help. I searched around some and found other people reporting a similar problem and found other screen photos that looked very similar to mine. But they were all using Windows Vista. I am NOT using Vista. I'm still on Windows XP Pro. I am usually able to restore the video by either Alt-Tabbing out of and back into whatever game I was playing or by doing Ctrl-Alt-Del and forcing it to minimize by bringing up the task manager if the game doesn't support Alt-Tab. And then it's a crap-shoot for how long I can go before it happens again but the intervals are getting more frequent. Pressing the Print Screen button while the artifacting is happening and then pasting the buffer into an image editor like Photoshop, the resulting image does NOT show any corruption. Hence I had to capture it with my digital camera. My system is running at all stock speeds, no overclocking. What gives here? Is my card going belly up?
I was a bit hesitant to buy a 7900 at first because I had heard stories about them having bad artifacting problems. But I found where eVGA had supposedly addressed this problem and you could tell if you had a "newer" revision of the card by the serial number. Well mine is supposed to be a newer revision one and I verified that before I bought it. But now this. . .Anybody else seeing this under Win XP?
System specs:
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
1 x eVGA 7900 GT KO (no SLI installed at this time)
2 Gig Corsair DDR RAM
AMD Athlon 64x2 - (Toledo core)
Samsung Syncmaster 930B monitor
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