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What is this on the screen?

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Dante26

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Hello

I am having vertical tearing and pixalation occurring on my screen. The title bars are the first affected and then it moves to the dropdown menus and buttons. Eventually, my desktop devlops this pattern:
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Where the dark lines are white and the spaces are what was rendered as the desktop. Sometimes the PC even freezes after a while. I checked my internal temps, and everything looks good. The fan on the GeForce is working. I tried a PCI Voodo 3 card and this did not happen at all.

Can this be my video card dying or is it something with my motherboard's AGP? I have tried all AGP settings and have found that the more aggressive the setting, the more frequent this occurs.

Please help...

TIA
 
I would try reseating the video card. I was having some strange problems like that and I found that my video card was not sitting all the way in the slot. Bummer! Well, at least you can eliminate that possibility. Otherwise, have you tried different video drivers?
 
Well...

I have reseated the video card, reinstalled DirectX 7.0a, tired the original drivers that came with the card, tried the new detonator drivers and the new Creative drivers. Same results with all. Any more ideas before I go out and buy a replacement card?

TIA
 
I had similar problems with a video card that apparently had bad RAM on it. I did get the lines to temporarily disappear by only cold-booting the system and by rebooting periodically (may have also been an overheating issue, i'm not sure...was an old card and I didn't care much).

~Ladi
 
I had the same thing on a Fire GL 1000pro a long while back. Go into the advanced settings of your display and set the accelleration all the way down to none. If this solves your problem then call your card maker because you probably have some bad ram on the card. That is exactly what was wrong with mine but we are talking about different cards here so good luck!
 
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