Probably asking a question I already know the answer to. Still I'm curious.
A little history:
ATI Radeon x550 started to give me huge artifacts. Even while displaying the initial ASUS motherboard logo.
-Removed everything possible. Right from Keyboard to 2nd memory stick.
-Reseated card.
-Removed/cleaned/reinstalled 3rd party video card cooler.
-Cleared motherboard's CMOS.
-Reduced graphics settings via safemode. Was able to boot to 'normal' mode.
-Flashed video card bios. After this, was able to use my regular 1680x1050 resolution.
Now things are looking great most of the time. But try gaming, playing a video,
or what really baffles me... the left hand column in Control Panel, it's all corrupted
with artifacts. I had a new 500gb drive, so I installed XP on it thinking it might
be software... but it did the same thing. So it's gotta be a hardware issue.
Really wish I had another card to swap but I don't. Knowing my luck, I'll get another
card just to find out the motherboard is the problem. Anyone got a suggestion other
then replace the card? I wanted to replace, but more when I could afford something
better then a 'budget' unit.
Artifacts on old ATI x550.
Re: Artifacts on old ATI x550.
sounds to me could be memory on the vid card is bad.
Re: Artifacts on old ATI x550.
That would make sense. When it hits higher needs usage, it messes up. I just wouldn't ofSAMSAMHA wrote:sounds to me could be memory on the vid card is bad.
though openning up control panel for example would of taxed the card as hard as say a video.
Re: Artifacts on old ATI x550.
Doesn't really matter how taxing it is, both 2D and 3D still use the same onboard VGA memory. Got an image of this control panel corruption?moon111 wrote:That would make sense. When it hits higher needs usage, it messes up. I just wouldn't ofSAMSAMHA wrote:sounds to me could be memory on the vid card is bad.
though openning up control panel for example would of taxed the card as hard as say a video.
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