Is my video card about to bite the dust?

[edm]

Here's a screenshot. This started about 6 months ago. The first time, I uninstall/reinstalled the CAT drivers and the problem went away for two months. Until it occurred again. Again, I reinstalled the drivers and all was fine for another month or two. This was off and on, until a few days ago, when it started occurring more often. Now it's occuring a few times a day. I can reboot or shut down for a few minutes, and everything returns to normal for a while. I can even play a few games without any problems. Although, I did have a few freezes yesterday. I also get the screen corruption in bios, until I shut down and restart.

It's also probably no coincidence that it's been 90+ degrees here since last week. so that is probably putting some extra strain on the card as well.

Anyway. Before I run out to buy a new video card, is there any chance this could be something else, besides the video card? Are there any tests I can run to narrow it down the the video card? My system temps are running around 30-35C, under load, and the cpu temp is around 51-55C. I also cleaned any the dust from all the fans.

I also swapped out my pc3200 value ram, since I was running it at pc2100 speeds on a ecs k7s5a, but the corruption still occurred while using the old pc2100 ram.

Is there any possibility it could be a power supply issue? Or is that unlikely? I'm not getting any reboots or anything, just the screen corruption. Here are my full specs.

Enlight case with 340 Watt PS
ECS k7s5a
9700 NP
2400+
1gig corsair value RAM
160 gig Seagate
Dvd-R
CD-R
ATI TV wonder PCI
SBLive value
Firewire card
2x80mm case fans

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[imported_Phil]

Yup, looks like the video card is either overheating, or on the way out.
Take the side off the case and aim a large fan (box fan) at the computer. See if the problem goes away.

 

[l Xes l]

i've seen that before.. it's not software issue.. it's hardware.. prolly due to either lack of power, incorrect position of the card or plug, overheating...

 

[imported_rod]

My Dad's laptop was doing almost the same thing a while ago...

What sort of monitor do you have: LCD or CRT? Im just wondering if it's a monitor issue?...

Also, try what Phil suggested.

RoD

 

[n7]

It's likely dying.

 

[mettleh3d]

that happend to me once too, right when i bought my new card as well, so the pain was excruciating. I did that by accidentally turning the compressed air duster upside down to dust the underside of the card and whooops. Frost.
owned. Rma handled that, thank God.
Its 100% hardware based. Buy a new card

 

[powerMarkymark]

Happenned to me and I RMAd the card.........no problems since.

M@rc

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: mettleh3d
that happend to me once too, right when i bought my new card as well, so the pain was excruciating. I did that by accidentally turning the compressed air duster upside down to dust the underside of the card and whooops. Frost.
owned. Rma handled that, thank God.
Its 100% hardware based. Buy a new card

Then you should have accidentally ate the cost of buying a new one, not the company

 

[gwag]

never mind