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post #21 of 23
12/16/03 at 7:44pm
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Here's a Screenshot of my overheated desktop

After giving the copper heatsink fins a thorough cleaning, and blowing any dust out of the fans with a high powered shot from canned air, I reapplied some arctic silver to my laptop. After that, I installed Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and tried playing it. Ran the machine at 1024x768 @32 bit color, most settings maxxed...

Started to see some artifacting after about 15 minutes. After 20 minutes the entire screen artifacted and I was unable to see the game. After a CTRL-ALT-DEL and end task, my desktop looked like this (in yahoo pictures format... forgive me. I'm at work and don't have access to any hosting):

Overheating Picture
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post #22 of 23
12/17/03 at 5:27pm
ThomTy:

I would bet money you have a broken pixel pipeline. My desktop machine had a similar problem for quite a while until just 2 days ago it finally gave up and artifacts showed up within a few seconds in any 3d game I played. The images were different depending on the game, but the end result was always a corrupt image.
I sent a screenshot to ATI and am RMA'ing the card currently, waiting to get it back. I posted it to another forum and several replied with similar expierences.
For the longest time I would have sworn it was heat (I live in south texas, this began in the summer), but turned out it was a faulty card all along.

note that this was on a desktop machine, with a 9700. Also, I never had any actual 2D display problems (Except that the cursor was corrupt, which makes sense because this is rendered with hardware acceleration.)
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post #23 of 23
12/17/03 at 7:30pm
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Ok well. Guess it's time for that RMA then.
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