Video Crashing? WTF? Help?

COD4, and Fuels of War both stop in the middle of gameplay. The screen goes black. Monitor (32" sharp 1080p screen) shows black and shows that the signal was just changed to 1080p in the middle of gameplay. Also I get lots of texutre corruption, and lines on the picture.

When this happens, it stop for like 10 secconds. The game will pause where its at.

Now, here is the tricky thing. I had a x1900xt in the system. I figured it was going out because I put my 1950pro in it and it seemed to work fine.

Now I have a 8800Gt and and I have the same problem. Ntune shows the card running at a mere 75C under the load.
The screen goes black and the textures are corrupting. I even got a checkerboard screen of RED and Green squares that was everywhere on the screen.

What is happening with my system. Anyone have any ideas?


MY PC specs are

E6400 @ 3.2 (same problem at stock speed)
Gigabyte 965p DS3 Rev. 3.3 Bios 9 (non beta)
4gb of Gskill DDR2 800 memory 4-4-4-16 @ 2.1v (rated votage)
Just replaced the PSU to a PCP&C 610 Silencer (had the same issue before the switch)


Any ideas here?

Exactly, i have the same problem with my newest 3870. It has a single slot cooler and i cant overclock it like the reference because the Memory will get too hot and cause errors. I recommend Rivatuner 2.06 to up the fan speed. It plays nice with XP but you will need to set it every time you restart with Vista(or maybe i just have no luck).

So yeah. O lowered the mem clock from 950 to 800 and it helped a lot. Still some minor artifact's.

Time to give newegg a call.

possible defective card.