Weird artifacts in both 2d and 3d

[LiekOMG]

A newly purchased Radeon 9200 (I know, its slow, but I needed something passivly cooled) is showing some strange artifacts on my screen. When running a 3d game, there are there multi colored streaks that flash across the screen rapidly, kinda like a bad reception on a TV. I thought the card might be overheating, but I noticed that even in the BIOS and on the Windows XP loading screen, I will see the same lines across the screen, so its not limited to 3d and it happens even while the heatsink on the card is cool.

Oddly enough, the streaks don't appear when i'm on a windows desktop. However, if I go into ATI control panel and I turn off the "Alternate DVI operational mode", then the streaks DO appear in the windows desktop.

I've tried different drivers and it makes no difference. Is the card defective, or is this something else?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

90% chance your card = defective.

Try another monitor if you can to check that.

Edit - BTW, cards up to the 6800NU now come in passive-cooled flavours. You have no excuse for shoddy performance.

- M4H

 

[LiekOMG]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
90% chance your card = defective.

Try another monitor if you can to check that.

Edit - BTW, cards up to the 6800NU now come in passive-cooled flavours. You have no excuse for shoddy performance.

- M4H

Thanks for the reply. I am limited to a 9200 because I need something passivly cooled and *small* because I will be eventually flashing the rom and putting it in my cube. But I won't do any flashing until I can confirm this card is defective or not.

 

[LiekOMG]

Ok, this is just plain odd. I RMA'ed the card back and got a replacement today. To my surprise, it has the same exact problem! So either all these cards have defective TDMS transmitters, or these cards just don't like my LCD. I wish I could figure out a way to fix this.

 

[Fenuxx]

Well, it could again be the card. I went through 4 XFX 6800GT's (3 had the EXACT same problem, and it wasn't my mobo) before I got a good one. The only real way to make sure is to try the card in another computer. If it has the same problem, then it's definitely the card. If not, it's related to some other issue (the mobo perhaps).

 

[LiekOMG]

I tried in in another one of my computers, but using the same LCD, so I can't really rule that out. The card isn't overheating, so it must be something else.