Screen scramble

This happened a few times already but is really annoying, where the screen for no reason will get a massive distortion disabling me froml reading chat or playing properly, how do I fix this? I'll take a screenshot next time it happens.

 

like the screen going completely white?

 

Okay... Please tell me, which class is it?

 

It just scrambles, like everything gets all colours and flips out, and the refresh rate pulls the screen up a bit every time, line by line and you can't see anything anymore and it makes your head hurt like the ever holy fuck. It's not my monitor though, as it ends when I go to the ingame screen. (But keeps going when you play again)

 

Scout with concussion grenades.

Do you have vsync turned on anywhere?

 

Sounds like your graphics card is overheating.

 

Yes, I believe it's something very close to graphic card malfuctions. Whenever I play that game ShadowGrounds (I think that's what its called, the game that's on STEAM that's a top-down shooter), and I was watching the final cinematic, the screen would TOTALLY mess up, kind of white with screen defects all over the place, in semi-horziantal lines... couldn't ALT-TAB or Ctrl-Alt-Del or anything. Happened every single time at the same spot in the video. Maybe it's the same thing?

 

A Radeon 9600 overheating might be it, I mean, the card's too powerful for it's age, it's quite unstable when you push it.

 

Definitely sounds like overheating to me. Have you overclocked it or anything?

 

I now have a broken Radeon 9600, took it to the shop and got a Radeon X1300 for it, and only had to pay €6 ontop of it... WIN!

Though, my motherboard doesn't have a PCIe slot... LOSE!

 

O hay, I guess we figured out why your screen was getting artifacts.

 

3 Months of using a graphics card 18 hours a day, nearly every day shouldn't make it go boom though.

 

No, it shouldn't do that. It was probably defective from the start. That's the problem with hardware like video cards; it's very hard to detect defects, since they start out small and increase in severity.

That's kinda why I like to stick with BFG Tech. They have a lifetime warranty on their cards.

 

Well, I did get an upgraded card in return, on all hardware I have a 1 to 3 year guarantee.

 

I will use Nvidia till the end of time. They have a lifetime end user warranty. Something important with sli since you have twice the chance of falure.

If your looking for a good gaming board with pci go the asus route i use the p5n32sli deluxe...... its awsome.

 

Uh, tkeracer619, as far as I know, nVidia doesn't issue the warranty, the manufacturers do.

I'm using an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, and I love it. I highly recommend it, and, looking at newegg, it looks like everybody else does, too. Out of 2134 voters, the average rating was five egg-things. If you ever manage to scrape together enough money to get a new motherboard, spring for this one.

 

SLI is a fad. just get a cheap board to support what you got. Not the cheapest though, maybe $60-80 range on newegg to be safe.

 

I already found an €78 one online, now I just need the money.