video card glitch?

[volanis]

hi guys. i recently upgraded 3 major components in my pc. an amd 64 4000 939, sapphire x1950 pro graphic card and an asus a8v-xe motherboard. Everything seems to be running smoothly exept my games. bf2 crashes to desktop after a few minutes of play, but weirdest of all games like tiberian wars and medieval 2 wont crash but get these blue/green and red lines all over the screen. when i drag the mouse across the screen thwey get worse. let me see if i can insert this screenie to give an eg. of what im talking about
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[blade85]

seems to me your card is either:

1- not getting enough juice
2- is busted

 

[emp]

Did you reinstall windows? maybe changing mobo/cpu is causing that. What about the older graphics card drivers?

 

[volanis]

Did you reinstall windows? maybe changing mobo/cpu is causing that. What about the older graphics card drivers?

yeah i did a fresh install of windows xp

 

[goldragon_70]

seems to me your card is either:

1- not getting enough juice
2- is busted

These two are the most likely suspects. After that would be the monitor itself.

 

[volanis]

ok thanks guys but what do you mean by 'not getting enough juice?'

 

[crazywheels]

not getting enough juice means that your power supply isn't putting out enough power to run everything. It's definitely your video card either it's not getting "enough juice" or your video card is bad. Possibly your video card drivers aren't updated.

 

[-xyzak-]

These look like badly seated mems on the graphic card. I would RMA.

 

[crazywheels]

how do you know that is badly seated memory

 

[volanis]

hmmm well my drivers for the graphics card 'are' up to date, although GRAW material detecteion says they arent. i did suspect ram but i put them in diff slots to see if that helped. oh and please forgive me but what is RMA

 

[betunn]

I happen to see something like that before.



It was my monitor. My GPU ruined it.

 

[crazywheels]

I still think it is your video card. RMA stands for Return Merchandise Authorization. If your video card is bad you would have to get an RMA from the manufacture to return it.