What's wrong with my ATI 64MB DDR video card?

[jagr10]

I've had this card for almost 2 years now. In the last 2 days something really weird happened. I was browsing the net and i clicked a link and all of a sudden my whole secreen had these vertical lines of wide thickness and different colours. I had never seen that before. So i restarted my computer and all was fine again and i get a little popup saying windows determined it was something to do with my ATI Radeon 64MB DDR video card and that i should update the drivers.

So then i did that. I went to ATI's website and downloaded and installed the drivers and i thought all was fine. Then again today the same thing happened. The vertical lines took over my screen and i couldn't do anything. I had to reboot and windows gave me the same message about updating the drivers.

Do i have to buy a new video card now? Right now the card is working fine, but i don't know when it will do that thing again. Any ideas?

thanks.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Is there a lot of dust on it? You didn't specify which ATI 64mb DDR card you have so I can't say for sure but some people have said that the ATI Radeon VE versions with 64mb of DDR Ram have problems such as this when they get too much dust.

 

[jagr10]

Mine's not a VE. I got mine before all those numbered ati cards came out. ( you know the 7500, 9000, 7000, etc.)

Mine was just ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO. It was made by ATI. Not another company using ATI card.

I did have alot of dust and i tried to blow it all off as much as possible. There's not telling if it worked yet. I guess i'll have to wait and see. If nothing happens for a day or two then it probably was a dust problem. I hope that's the problem.