Hello all, I have a very strange problem and I need some help.
I have an ATI Radeon 8500 (oem) and it has been working fine in my new pc until yesterday. In normal windows it operates fine, but when I try to load Quake3 it crashes within 10 minutes of playing. I get a series of colored vertical lines and the entire system crashes. I had this problem before and fixed it by re-seating the card about 50 times. The card seems well seated and there's no reason in the world it should be crashing like this again. This new motherboard I got about 2 months ago seats it quite easily.
I've tried re-seating it about 10 times so far and it has not fixed the problem. I haven't changed anything about my system in the past week at least. The card definately appears fully seated, no pins are visible sticking up out of the AGP slot. I have screwed it down as tight as I can and nothing seems to help. One of the times I tried to re-seat it, the PC wouldn't even display anything after turning it on. It seems if it isn't JUST RIGHT it won't work or will crash in games.
The card is almost a year old, perhaps it never really worked 100% to begin with. Is there anything I can do here or am I just screwed? Please, any helpful comments would be welcome.
I have an ATI Radeon 8500 (oem) and it has been working fine in my new pc until yesterday. In normal windows it operates fine, but when I try to load Quake3 it crashes within 10 minutes of playing. I get a series of colored vertical lines and the entire system crashes. I had this problem before and fixed it by re-seating the card about 50 times. The card seems well seated and there's no reason in the world it should be crashing like this again. This new motherboard I got about 2 months ago seats it quite easily.
I've tried re-seating it about 10 times so far and it has not fixed the problem. I haven't changed anything about my system in the past week at least. The card definately appears fully seated, no pins are visible sticking up out of the AGP slot. I have screwed it down as tight as I can and nothing seems to help. One of the times I tried to re-seat it, the PC wouldn't even display anything after turning it on. It seems if it isn't JUST RIGHT it won't work or will crash in games.
The card is almost a year old, perhaps it never really worked 100% to begin with. Is there anything I can do here or am I just screwed? Please, any helpful comments would be welcome.
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