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Video not rendering properly

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I recently moved and upon starting my computer for the first time at the new location and playing a game I found it started to render it incorrectly. There are squares all over the screen with the wrong colors in it. My video card is a 9800 Pro. All connections are good. The computer worked just fine at my old house but now it is being wierd. According to my probe the temperature on the card during this activity with the game open and rendering is about 45 degrees C on the heatsink. A possibly related thing is that the power supply is in need of replacement (it supplies sufficient power but won't allow the computer to turn itself off. It kicks it back on, then off, then on, in an endless cycle). Card is still seated properly. I could attempt to try to reseat it possibly.

I moved.
Video doesn't render properly.
Everything else seems okay.
 
It may be your power button causing that shutdown/turning-on problem. Long ago, when ATX was new and Baby-AT was becoming extinct, I was working on a computer with a defective power button. It was doing exactly the same thing you are describing.

Your card may have come off the worse from the move. It happens, unfortunately.

If you haven't removed the card and reseated it, try that. Looking at the connector may not be sufficient to tell if it is seated properly.

Other than that, I have no idea what to tell you. Maybe try reseating the memory and any PCI cards as well.

After that, I'd call ATI. In my experience, ATI support is utterly worthless, but miracles do happen, and they may have some advice for you.
 
I took it out, reseated it, reinstalled the latest drivers. Still did it, but I got through a few missions of the game before it started acting funny.
 
Squares on the screen like that probably means that one of your vid card's memory chips is dieing.
Check that the heat sink is not loose, full of dust, etc, etc.

Luck......... :D
 
And here's a screenshot.
screweduprendering.jpg
 
looks like artifacting to me :( possibly overheating, maybe heatsink isn't on the processor all the way, or it is going bad :( could also be not getting enough power to it, not sure...is there a molex that connects to that? I do not know too much about the past vid cards, but on mine it has a molex that it needs.

whats that game you are playing in that screenshot?
 
That's X-Men the Official Game. I fixed the problem. The HSF must have shook loose during the move so I cleaned the surfaces and put some Arctic Silver 5 on there. So far no problems.
 
glad you got it fixed! I may have to look into that game, it looks like fun, at least the portion I could see of it. ;)
 
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