My graphics card is artifacting :(

2008-10-30 03:23:24

#1

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6916

As the title says. I've downclocked it 50Mhz on both the mem and core and it isn't doing it anymore. At first I thought my monitor had developed a line of dead pixels since last night, which would have made me very sad, however it's jumping around all over the place so it's definitely the graphics card. It's doing all this in the OS btw, not whilst playing games. It has never been OC'd and it's about a year and a bit old. Which in my mind is not a very long time.

Oh yes, it's a ATi X1950 Pro.

Do I need to get a new card? Or are there other suggestions? Would remounting the heatsink make a difference, for instance?

2008-10-30 03:24:46

#2

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6720|The Twilight Zone

Check temps first.

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2008-10-30 03:27:59

#3

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7032|Cambridge (UK)

You're in the Tech Team aren't ya?

You figure it out!

(could be the monitor - you got a spare monitor to test on it? could also be the monitor data cable - have you got a spare? and, yup, could be the card - testing t'other two bits will tell you if it is - then do what .sup said)

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2008-10-30 03:30:50

#4

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6916

Just tried COD4 to see the extent of the damage. It started artifacting like crazy, then froze. When it unfroze, it was fine, albeit somewhat laggy, presumably down to the slower card. Weird. I'm 96% sure it's not the monitor.

EDIT: Sup, I would check the temps, however my card doesn't have a temp monitor built in to it.

Last edited by ghettoperson (2008-10-30 03:31:23)

2008-10-30 03:33:39

#5

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ghettoperson wrote:
Just tried COD4 to see the extent of the damage. It started artifacting like crazy, then froze. When it unfroze, it was fine, albeit somewhat laggy, presumably down to the slower card. Weird. I'm 96% sure it's not the monitor.

EDIT: Sup, I would check the temps, however my card doesn't have a temp monitor built in to it.

Touch it. Burn on the cooler or PCB under the core equals bad.

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2008-10-30 03:41:59

#6

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7032|Cambridge (UK)

ghettoperson wrote:
Just tried COD4 to see the extent of the damage. It started artifacting like crazy, then froze. When it unfroze, it was fine, albeit somewhat laggy, presumably down to the slower card. Weird. I'm 96% sure it's not the monitor.

EDIT: Sup, I would check the temps, however my card doesn't have a temp monitor built in to it.

When you say 'artifacting', how? Same as described in OP? and is it like a whole line of corrupt/dead pixels that keeps jumping around, or something else?

2008-10-30 03:54:42

#7

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6916

Well, when I boot into the OS, it just has a single black line of pixels. When I open up Firefox, it changes position. Then we I scroll down the page it goes kinda crazy and they appear all over the place in different colours. When looking at something black, blue pixels show up and dance around a bit. Then in COD4, in the loading screens the colours go crazy and when playing you get long pointy bits sticking out of stuff.

2008-10-30 04:12:16

#8

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6766|so randum

ghettoperson wrote:
Well, when I boot into the OS, it just has a single black line of pixels. When I open up Firefox, it changes position. Then we I scroll down the page it goes kinda crazy and they appear all over the place in different colours. When looking at something black, blue pixels show up and dance around a bit. Then in COD4, in the loading screens the colours go crazy and when playing you get long pointy bits sticking out of stuff.

yep, GPU is a nice paperweight.

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2008-10-30 06:02:06

#9

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FatherTed wrote:
ghettoperson wrote:
Well, when I boot into the OS, it just has a single black line of pixels. When I open up Firefox, it changes position. Then we I scroll down the page it goes kinda crazy and they appear all over the place in different colours. When looking at something black, blue pixels show up and dance around a bit. Then in COD4, in the loading screens the colours go crazy and when playing you get long pointy bits sticking out of stuff.
yep, GPU is a nice paperweight.

The highlighted is for sure overheating, I had the same HD4870 when experimenting with OC'ing the thing, mostly it just resulted in artifacts after long periods of playing.

2008-10-30 11:32:27

#10

ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|6916

Really weird. I've clocked it back up to it's default settings, and it can run FurMark with no artifacts at all.

2008-10-30 12:22:26

#11

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7032|Cambridge (UK)

Strange. It does indeed sound like an overheating/dying GPU.

The only way you're gonna know for sure, is, as I said before, to swap out first the monitor cable, then the monitor, then the card.

2008-10-30 12:33:24

#12

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Scorpion0x17 wrote:
You're in the Tech Team aren't ya?

You figure it out!

oh and test temps (with finger) and clean out the heatsink. After 2 years there's gonna be a lot of dirt in there

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