- Jun 10, 2004
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Hello all. Before I start, here are my specs:
ABIT AI7 Socket 478 Intel 865PE ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 3.0C Northwood 800MHz FSB Socket 478
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (with latest drivers, no catalyst)
GeIL Ultra 1gb RAM (DDR550 PC 4400 4 x 256MB)
Windows XP sp2
It's about 2 years old.
About a month or so ago, I was experiencing strange 'fragments' popping up on my screen every now and then. They seemed like little multi-colored error clusters, as seen in the screenshot here:
Error
Please note that I am not running Vista, it is just an XP skin.
The problem peaked when my computer would not show a screen on startup, it would just start up black with out of range monitor notice, however, I knew it was starting okay because it would play the Windows welcome sound.
After reinstalling all the drivers and physcially re-installing the video card itself, it just started working okay again. No errors.
Just today, the problem started again. No black screen on startup this time, but I receive errors when running hardware accelerated applications. I will also receive the lines on my desktop as well, but when I turn off all hardware accelerations, they disappear. Here are screenshots of an example of what happens when in a game:
Error 01
Error 02
Error 03
So what do you guys think? Definitely video card problem? The problem I have if it is a video card, is that since my motherboard doesn't support PCIe16, it doesn't seem like it's worth buying another agp card... What do you guys think?
ABIT AI7 Socket 478 Intel 865PE ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 3.0C Northwood 800MHz FSB Socket 478
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (with latest drivers, no catalyst)
GeIL Ultra 1gb RAM (DDR550 PC 4400 4 x 256MB)
Windows XP sp2
It's about 2 years old.
About a month or so ago, I was experiencing strange 'fragments' popping up on my screen every now and then. They seemed like little multi-colored error clusters, as seen in the screenshot here:
Error
Please note that I am not running Vista, it is just an XP skin.
The problem peaked when my computer would not show a screen on startup, it would just start up black with out of range monitor notice, however, I knew it was starting okay because it would play the Windows welcome sound.
After reinstalling all the drivers and physcially re-installing the video card itself, it just started working okay again. No errors.
Just today, the problem started again. No black screen on startup this time, but I receive errors when running hardware accelerated applications. I will also receive the lines on my desktop as well, but when I turn off all hardware accelerations, they disappear. Here are screenshots of an example of what happens when in a game:
Error 01
Error 02
Error 03
So what do you guys think? Definitely video card problem? The problem I have if it is a video card, is that since my motherboard doesn't support PCIe16, it doesn't seem like it's worth buying another agp card... What do you guys think?