- Jan 15, 2008
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For a while now I've been getting strange little errors at first i thought it was the game or a corrupt model file. I wasn't having any other trouble with my PC so the thought it was my own system didn't really stick.
However lately things have started going down hill quite fast and I'm pretty sure "something" will die soon. That's what I want help with really. I know something need replacing but there isn't a clear winner.
This is pretty much what I'm now getting quite regularly. Corrupted textures and polygons getting stretched in random directions, often by more than one vertex...
(couldn't find the syntax to shrink the image and I formatted recently and don't have any image manipulation tools back on)
Anyway, things didn't start out this severe, it was often just a very infrequent malformed polygon, possibly as little as 1 per hour. So I'm sure anyone reading this would think its obviously my GFX card, but other weirdness has put doubt in my mind.
firstly pixel bleeding (is that the appropriate term?), this is even present in the BIOS (although there are other issues there too which I'll get to late).
I'm also getting very weird (and they have to be faulty, as the heat sink for the mobo is just warm to the touch, certainly its not nearly 200 degrees c)
I've since installed the ASUS PC Probe and it shows the motherboard running at 38 and the CPU at 35.
Also as i said earlier, in the BIOS there are these pixel errors but also certain letters are corrupted there too (I've tried to flash the bios dozens of times, the confirmation check fails at 87% every time, no matter which version i try). "Quit" is spelled "Qui4" and "Disabled" is replaced with "Disable"". There is also some coloring issues in the BIOS which has some character backgrounds orange rather than blue, or the character itself colored wrongly.
I've also tried under clocking a few components to see if this would fix anything with no success, although i left the ram under clocked as the sticker on the ram says 800mhz 4-4-4-12 timing yet the SPD says 666mhz with 5-5-5-15 timings... I've gone with the SPD until i get the rest of this fixed, although it ran fine for a year at 4-4-4-12 etc.
My system is getting to a point that its almost unplayable
I think that's about everything so I'll list my components.
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE
GIeL DDR2 800mhz 1gig x2
3D Fusion GeForce 7600 GT
Cooler Master eXtreme Power Duo 650w
Maxtor 6Y090M0 80gig
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Most of it is a little over a year old, the HD is a little older as i bought it for a previous system but it only supported SATA as a raid.
I'm trying to hold out on getting a gfx card as long as possible with the 8900's so close I'm hoping to save some money there. I also do want something that supports DX10 with hardware as Age of Conan is something I'm really looking forward to.
Any and all advice appreciated.
However lately things have started going down hill quite fast and I'm pretty sure "something" will die soon. That's what I want help with really. I know something need replacing but there isn't a clear winner.
This is pretty much what I'm now getting quite regularly. Corrupted textures and polygons getting stretched in random directions, often by more than one vertex...
(couldn't find the syntax to shrink the image and I formatted recently and don't have any image manipulation tools back on)
Anyway, things didn't start out this severe, it was often just a very infrequent malformed polygon, possibly as little as 1 per hour. So I'm sure anyone reading this would think its obviously my GFX card, but other weirdness has put doubt in my mind.
firstly pixel bleeding (is that the appropriate term?), this is even present in the BIOS (although there are other issues there too which I'll get to late).
I'm also getting very weird (and they have to be faulty, as the heat sink for the mobo is just warm to the touch, certainly its not nearly 200 degrees c)
I've since installed the ASUS PC Probe and it shows the motherboard running at 38 and the CPU at 35.
Also as i said earlier, in the BIOS there are these pixel errors but also certain letters are corrupted there too (I've tried to flash the bios dozens of times, the confirmation check fails at 87% every time, no matter which version i try). "Quit" is spelled "Qui4" and "Disabled" is replaced with "Disable"". There is also some coloring issues in the BIOS which has some character backgrounds orange rather than blue, or the character itself colored wrongly.
I've also tried under clocking a few components to see if this would fix anything with no success, although i left the ram under clocked as the sticker on the ram says 800mhz 4-4-4-12 timing yet the SPD says 666mhz with 5-5-5-15 timings... I've gone with the SPD until i get the rest of this fixed, although it ran fine for a year at 4-4-4-12 etc.
My system is getting to a point that its almost unplayable
I think that's about everything so I'll list my components.
____________________________________
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE
GIeL DDR2 800mhz 1gig x2
3D Fusion GeForce 7600 GT
Cooler Master eXtreme Power Duo 650w
Maxtor 6Y090M0 80gig
______________________________________
Most of it is a little over a year old, the HD is a little older as i bought it for a previous system but it only supported SATA as a raid.
I'm trying to hold out on getting a gfx card as long as possible with the 8900's so close I'm hoping to save some money there. I also do want something that supports DX10 with hardware as Age of Conan is something I'm really looking forward to.
Any and all advice appreciated.
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