First off, let me say that I really haven't seen a game that this card couldn't handle at moderate resolutions and high detail.
That being said, I'm having an odd problem with it...
Without any apparent link to what I am doing (surfing the web, playing Q3, playing UT, playing CS, using Adobe PhotoShop 5.0, etc.), the display will suddenly become striped with thin white and yellow lines. A simple reboot removes the problem and life returns no normal. I don't think it's a heat issue, as I've had it happen 2 minutes after boot, and the Viper is not OC'd. The problem has persisted on three mobos, (an Asus P5A-B, a FIC SD-11, and now a Abit BE6-II) and with varying types of system RAM. My speakers are shielded, and a good foot and a half from the monitor, and the problem has survived three Windows re-installs (not for this problem). However, when I had an addition drive on my system and I was running Linux Mandrake 7.0, I *never* once had an issue with video.
Any ideas? I'd like to sell the card (I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll probably have to sell for half the going rate due to this annoyance), but I'd like to at least be able to explain to the person who buys it why it's doing what it does.
Any help would be appreciated...
[EDIT]Hmmm...I didn't mention that I've gone months at a time without a problem, but then, I've also had it happen to me consecutive times in one day. Weird... :|[/EDIT]
That being said, I'm having an odd problem with it...
Without any apparent link to what I am doing (surfing the web, playing Q3, playing UT, playing CS, using Adobe PhotoShop 5.0, etc.), the display will suddenly become striped with thin white and yellow lines. A simple reboot removes the problem and life returns no normal. I don't think it's a heat issue, as I've had it happen 2 minutes after boot, and the Viper is not OC'd. The problem has persisted on three mobos, (an Asus P5A-B, a FIC SD-11, and now a Abit BE6-II) and with varying types of system RAM. My speakers are shielded, and a good foot and a half from the monitor, and the problem has survived three Windows re-installs (not for this problem). However, when I had an addition drive on my system and I was running Linux Mandrake 7.0, I *never* once had an issue with video.
Any ideas? I'd like to sell the card (I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll probably have to sell for half the going rate due to this annoyance), but I'd like to at least be able to explain to the person who buys it why it's doing what it does.
Any help would be appreciated...
[EDIT]Hmmm...I didn't mention that I've gone months at a time without a problem, but then, I've also had it happen to me consecutive times in one day. Weird... :|[/EDIT]
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