Greetings all,
So I have exhausted most avenues prior to comming here, and while on the surface it seems like a simple problem, most of the traditional fixes have not seemed to make any real difference.
First the preamble...ie specs;
Dell Box
Pentium 4 processor
128 ATI radeon 9800
1 gig of ram
Windows XP home
All the latest updates/drivers (catalyst 6.8 for vid driver)
Very clean machine, just reformated about 5 months ago
The problem:
After a short period of use the screen simply starts to "tare" and distort. It simply flickers at first, then becomes a garbled mess, that is not completely illegible, but all but unuseable. This happened mainly during gaming, but now occurs within minutes of booting up, and with no programs running whatsoever (other than background antivirus/utilities...nothing that has any graphical component at all)
This seemed at first to be a simple issue of overheating vid card. So opened the case, cleaned up the card (dust and such) and ran with case open and a nice little fan blowing on the card. Still happening and I am somewhat stumped as to where to go from here.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all
So I have exhausted most avenues prior to comming here, and while on the surface it seems like a simple problem, most of the traditional fixes have not seemed to make any real difference.
First the preamble...ie specs;
Dell Box
Pentium 4 processor
128 ATI radeon 9800
1 gig of ram
Windows XP home
All the latest updates/drivers (catalyst 6.8 for vid driver)
Very clean machine, just reformated about 5 months ago
The problem:
After a short period of use the screen simply starts to "tare" and distort. It simply flickers at first, then becomes a garbled mess, that is not completely illegible, but all but unuseable. This happened mainly during gaming, but now occurs within minutes of booting up, and with no programs running whatsoever (other than background antivirus/utilities...nothing that has any graphical component at all)
This seemed at first to be a simple issue of overheating vid card. So opened the case, cleaned up the card (dust and such) and ran with case open and a nice little fan blowing on the card. Still happening and I am somewhat stumped as to where to go from here.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all