7600GS Artifacts

[Pandora]

Hello let me just say its honor to be a member of this site its looks rather good. Right I require your help folks. I baught a new graphics card today a GEFORCE 7600 GS and I am having a some teething problems even though I followed the instructions and downloaded the latest version of the drivers for the card. Let me just list the specs of PC:

Processor AMD Athlon 1.8GHz
OS Windows XP Home edition version 2002
Service Pack2
1GBs of system member upgraded from 512
80GB hdd
15.1 TFT screen VGA compliant.

Now thats done lol here are some pictures that will fully illustrate the problem that I having. I have no idea why this is happening so I welcome any suggestons that you may have.

Thanks Pandora

[Yellowhello]

Originally Posted by Pandora

Hello let me just say its honor to be a member of this site its looks rather good. Right I require your help folks. I baught a new graphics card today a GEFORCE 7600 GS and I am having a some teething problems even though I followed the instructions and downloaded the latest version of the drivers for the card. Let me just list the specs of PC:

Processor AMD Athlon 1.8GHz
OS Windows XP Home edition version 2002
Service Pack2
1GBs of system member upgraded from 512
80GB hdd
15.1 TFT screen VGA compliant.

Now thats done lol here are some pictures that will fully illustrate the problem that I having. I have no idea why this is happening so I welcome any suggestons that you may have.

Thanks Pandora

For what I can see in the pics, it might be overheating or you OCed it too much (if you Oced it).

Also, you might wanted to ask one of the moderators to move this to it's own thread.

Good Luck, and welcome!!

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by yellowhello

Also, you might wanted to ask one of the moderators to move this to it's own thread.

Done

[[Dr. V]]

Even if it isn't OCed, there has to be a cooling problem there somewhere.

I wouldn't say too easily that the system is bottlenecking the video card any, but it's a possibility.

I'd make sure the extra 6-pin connector is plugged in (if your card has one), and either way make sure the fan on the card is spinning (unless it doesn't have a fan...in which case the cooling problem is most likely).

[Pandora]

Well thanks for that I will certainly try it, the graphics card does have a fan and it does turn, I do not know what OCed means but I assume that mean over clocking which I have not done lol. Since you have not commented on my computers specs I therefore can assume its nothing to with my computer in that respect.

[Pandora]

Originally Posted by ST!X

Even if it isn't OCed, there has to be a cooling problem there somewhere.

I wouldn't say too easily that the system is bottlenecking the video card any, but it's a possibility.

I'd make sure the extra 6-pin connector is plugged in (if your card has one), and either way make sure the fan on the card is spinning (unless it doesn't have a fan...in which case the cooling problem is most likely).

Well I checked that the fan is turning on the graphics card and I cleaned the fans yesterday so is temperature is normal. So if its not that then I do not know what else it could be so if you have other suggestons I look forward to hearing them on here.

[Pandora]

Originally Posted by Pandora

Well I checked that the fan is turning on the graphics card and I cleaned the fans yesterday so is temperature is normal. So if its not that then I do not know what else it could be so if you have other suggestons I look forward to hearing them on here.

Hello again I would just wanted to give you a update I exchanged my geforce 7600 graphics card for another one and I still have the same problem and I do not know what to do please can anyone help me!!!!

[Jokerswild]

Wow bummer. I had 2 different 7600gs video cards go bad in my daughters computer, I don't know if it was the computers fault or the video cards were bad. Usually heat causes the problems with video cards or a bad driver install.

[Mithosphere]

do you have another computer system that you can test the card in?

Oh and what brand is the video card? Asus, XFX, BFG . . .

One more thing is this AGP or PCI Express?

[Lead Head]

Uninstall your graphics card drives via Add & Remove software, make sure there is NO previous drivers left from some older card you may of had. Reboot the system, install you new drivers, once that is done, reboot again, go to
DirectX® 10and download the newest version of DirectX, see if that works.