video problem

[letulechuga]

i started getting massive artifacts that fill up the whole screen.
they come up before windows loads and even if it does load, the artifacts come back when it wakes up from sleep mode.
If the computer is placed sideways though everything is cool.
can you help me out on this?

 

[Rage187]

try reseating the card

 

[fbrdphreak]

Video card? What cooling? OCing it? What case? How old?

 

[letulechuga]

when i take it out and put it back in all is fine. but the second reboot everything crashes again.
Asus P4PE
BFG 6800 OC
Enermax 431 Watt
Soho black tower

 

[letulechuga]

no Oc'ing air cooling 3 case fans 2 on the card 2 in the power supply

 

[letulechuga]

bump

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: letulechuga
no Oc'ing air cooling 3 case fans 2 on the card 2 in the power supply

Hot air pocket? Try placing a fan to move the air around the Video card area.

 

[pol II]

What are the temps it is running at?

If your temps are fine, you can try a driver reinstall. If the problem persists, I'd call BFG, could be bad vRAM.

 

[letulechuga]

everything happens before the windows loads though, so it cant be the drivers.

I ran it with the case open so probably not the hot air pocket either

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[letulechuga]

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[zagood]

Wait...it works fine if the case is sideways?

Sounds like the weight of the card isn't letting it sit correctly in the AGP slot when the case is right side up. This may be a little dangerous, but you might want to try wiggling it VERY SLIGHTLY with the machine on and see if the picture changes.

Make sure you've got the PCI slot screw tightened into the case.

I don't know of any aftermarket products that can brace video cards...hmmm might be a market for that. You could try to fabricate something, but it'd be a lot of trial and error and you don't even know if that'd work permanently.

Try another video card in the slot and see if it has the same problem.

-z

 

[letulechuga]

that is what i was thinking too, because the heatsink with two fans is quite heavy on the BFG card.

i tried a geforce 4 mx and that worked out fine.

any more suggestions?

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[Eureka]

Loose card and/or loose heatsink seems to be the most likely culprit.

Norm

 

[letulechuga]

also: sometimes it loads and other times it doesn't if the system isn't moved at all.
also: when the system boots there are no brightly colored strips before the XP load or everything is the way it is supposed to be, it doesn't load however when there are different colored blocks or strips prior to load of the OS.