total screen corruption 9800 pro

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Card isnt overclocked or tweaked at all, yet every so often in 3d games, the
xp aquarium screensaver & occasionally windows itself, the screen will
become totally corrupted, like the monitor is out of sync but in very small
blocks & with large traingles swimming accross the screen also corrupted
(sorry its a bit hard to describe, i work in tech support & have never seen
anything like this before, but am kinda convinced its not a monitor sync
issue). If i power off the comp i can just about make out the blue shutting
down windows screen. Its erratic quite often it will go all day without any
probs, other days 2 or 3 times an evening. Have tried catalyst 3.7 thru to
3.10's, have completely blown away & reinstalled windows, have tried a
different monitor cable (my monitor has 2 inputs standard svga & bnc). I'm
not sure if this is related but every so often the monitor will go black for
just a split second before starting the screen saver or changing a web page
etc, buts its always done that so i got used to it.
my system
chaintech kt266a mobo latest bios
xp 2200+
2 512 sticks crucial sdram 133 cas 2
dx9b on xp prof sp1

anybody got any ideas on this one
 
psu is 350 watter
only have 1 hdd, 1 cd, soundcard, nic, usb2 card in system besides which
card worked fine for 5 months or so
 
What is your case cooling like? Sounds plausible that the memory (on the
card) is overheating.

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psu is 350 watter
only have 1 hdd, 1 cd, soundcard, nic, usb2 card in system besides
which card worked fine for 5 months or so
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Try the Artifact tester that comes with the Omega drivers. It's designed to
check the video card's stability (memory) when overclocked, so it should
work fine and do a routine check at default clock speeds. If you find that
you do get artifacts, you can try underclocking the memory a bit until your
card reaches stability, or if it does not run without artifacts, then you
know for sure that your card is hosed.

JK
 
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