jimbojones

So i've had an issue that's been coming up. Lately i've been noticing this distortion onscreen most of the time. It's this green sort of graininess that comes up sometimes when scrolling through long documents, and when playing any games (primarily bf2) i get this green flickering that makes the games very annoying to play. I've been thinking it could be a heating issue, but i've only come across this problem in maybe the last month, and the fan on my card seems to be working. Also, my cpu temp has been idling 50c, and the case has been on average 41c, so i don't see any contribution from the video card. I've tried going from the 77.77 to the 81.85 drivers with no avail, i tried the old 77 drivers, but nothin gis helping. Any help would be appreciated.

Dex

I get all kinds of artifacts when I forget to plug the auxillary power 6 pin molex into my card. Sounds like overheating or a power issue.

Make sure your PSU is capable of pumping enough juice into your rig. Are you able to monitor temps on your video card?

jimbojones

Quote: Originally Posted by Dex I get all kinds of artifacts when I forget to plug the auxillary power 6 pin molex into my card. Sounds like overheating or a power issue. Make sure your PSU is capable of pumping enough juice into your rig. Are you able to monitor temps on your video card?

Yeah i plugged in the auxillary (even though never having it in my card had been working fine) and it doesn't help. The fan and heat sinks seem just fine, and i never get temps over 60c for my cpu, meaning my case is never over 40 or 45c. So i'm almost certain it's not a heating issue. Could my card be defective? I mean it only started acting up the last month and i've had it for about 6 months. Any help would be great, thanks.

jimbojones

So an update: I just clean installed windows, and having not installed drivers it seemed to work fine for the applications it could handle, yet when i installed the 77.3 drivers it started up again with the artifacts, i don't know what to do.

67_GTO

If there was any way for you to borrow someone elses card of equal or better quality, that is the only way i can think of to tell for sure that it is the hardware. doesnt sound like a driver issue if you have gone through a full reinstallation. you may want to gather up your box and paperwork just incase.

i had similiar problems when i got my 5700 Ultra, normal usage would have a fuzzyness on the screen and would get worse when i played games. I had to send it back and trade for a new one.

DavidVaini

that has happend to me before.. it ended up being my agp slot... so maybe its your PCIe slot?

jimbojones

Quote: Originally Posted by 67_GTO If there was any way for you to borrow someone elses card of equal or better quality, that is the only way i can think of to tell for sure that it is the hardware. doesnt sound like a driver issue if you have gone through a full reinstallation. you may want to gather up your box and paperwork just incase. i had similiar problems when i got my 5700 Ultra, normal usage would have a fuzzyness on the screen and would get worse when i played games. I had to send it back and trade for a new one.

more news: popped it into an old axp system (it's an agp card) and i'm getting the same problem, so it looks like i'll be calling asus tomorrow, i just hope i don't need the original packaging (i had to throw all my clutter out when i moved :x)

jimbojones

Quote: Originally Posted by DavidVaini that has happend to me before.. it ended up being my agp slot... so maybe its your PCIe slot?

The thing bothering me though is i don't get this trouble before i install drivers on a fresh copy of windows. I just fresh installed again and before i installed drivers i wasn't getting the problem (though i still got all the choppiness you'd expect from using this card without the drivers). I know it's not the mobo, it replicated the problem on a different computer, i know it's not power, and it wouldn't seem to be software. And the problem disappearing before installing drivers makes me not want to question the card. Any ideas?