Blue Snow Flakes/Gaming/Videos??

frostybrad · May 23rd, 2008

This is for my DAD.......

As far as I know nothing has changed on his computer. He has a 8800 gts 512 mg vid card. When we load up any game that is on his system, there is "blue" artifact like squares floating around the screen, as if its snowing blue snow flakes. Only during game play or load menus.... internet explorer is fine, viewing You Tube is fine..... but when you play videos from his camera it appears aswell. I know he just bought a new 22" Samsung, and had problems installing the driver, but he tells me he has installed them now, and this problem actually started to appear on his temporary monitor he was using a week or so ago.... Is this strickly VideoCard problems?? you can almost see the pixels dancing around on the screen... all Blue.........

thanks....

screwballl · May 23rd, 2008

I have seen this before on other cards, this is usually either the driver or the video card itself going bad.

frostybrad · May 23rd, 2008

Should I try an update the drivers to something else and see what happens?

screwballl · May 23rd, 2008

I would try the latest drivers available, if it continues then try the drivers from OmegaDrivers.net
if it continues with all drivers then the card is likely bad and should be sent back for warranty work (if still under warranty)

**One4yu2c** · May 23rd, 2008

What make/model power supply is your pops using?

screwballl · May 23rd, 2008

forgot about that... yeah that brand, size/type of power supply is he using???

frostybrad · May 23rd, 2008

- Thermaltake toughpower 700 watt nonmudular Power Supply unit.
- Corsair twinX 6400 c4 memory
- BFG 8800 GTS 320mb PCI express GPU

- Ill update and install new drivers......
- if that doesn't work, I will take the card with me home and try it in my computer and see if it does its bad thing.
- if it doesn't do it and it works fine.... then its gota be something else like a bad PCI express slot, or in fact the Power supply.

thanks guys,,,

**stinger608** · May 23rd, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by One4yu2c

What make/model power supply is your pops using?

Took the words right out of my mouth!!!

frostybrad · May 23rd, 2008

- Thermaltake toughpower 700 watt nonmudular Power Supply unit.

frostybrad · May 23rd, 2008

I hooked up an old monitor and it did it aswell.... just wanted to check in :)

May 23rd, 2008	#1
frostybrad Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 271	Blue Snow Flakes/Gaming/Videos?? This is for my DAD....... As far as I know nothing has changed on his computer. He has a 8800 gts 512 mg vid card. When we load up any game that is on his system, there is "blue" artifact like squares floating around the screen, as if its snowing blue snow flakes. Only during game play or load menus.... internet explorer is fine, viewing You Tube is fine..... but when you play videos from his camera it appears aswell. I know he just bought a new 22" Samsung, and had problems installing the driver, but he tells me he has installed them now, and this problem actually started to appear on his temporary monitor he was using a week or so ago.... Is this strickly VideoCard problems?? you can almost see the pixels dancing around on the screen... all Blue......... thanks.... E6600 Dual Core @3.4GHZ (1511 FSB)@1.325volts 2x 8800 GTX KO ACS3 PCI-E 630MHZ 768MB 2.0GHZ Raptor 74GB WD Caviar 250GB HD Antec 1200 Hundred Case 4 gigs of Corsair XMS2 TWIN -6400C4 2GB DDR2-800 CL 4-4-4-12-2T 680I SLI LGA775 MOBO Samsung DVD+RW Enermax Galaxy 1000 wats PSU Zalman 9700 LED cpu fan 24" Samsung SynMaster Cooling: Swiftech Dual rad Swiftech Micro Res Swiftech Apogee GT Cpu block 2x Koolance 8800 GTX Full Coverage Water blocks Feser One Blue Fluid

May 23rd, 2008	#2
screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,279 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Blue Snow Flakes/Gaming/Videos?? I have seen this before on other cards, this is usually either the driver or the video card itself going bad. Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.

May 23rd, 2008	#3
frostybrad Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 271	Re: Blue Snow Flakes/Gaming/Videos?? Should I try an update the drivers to something else and see what happens? E6600 Dual Core @3.4GHZ (1511 FSB)@1.325volts 2x 8800 GTX KO ACS3 PCI-E 630MHZ 768MB 2.0GHZ Raptor 74GB WD Caviar 250GB HD Antec 1200 Hundred Case 4 gigs of Corsair XMS2 TWIN -6400C4 2GB DDR2-800 CL 4-4-4-12-2T 680I SLI LGA775 MOBO Samsung DVD+RW Enermax Galaxy 1000 wats PSU Zalman 9700 LED cpu fan 24" Samsung SynMaster Cooling: Swiftech Dual rad Swiftech Micro Res Swiftech Apogee GT Cpu block 2x Koolance 8800 GTX Full Coverage Water blocks Feser One Blue Fluid Last edited by frostybrad; May 23rd, 2008 at 11:35. Reason: skipped out on too many typing class's in Highschool

May 23rd, 2008	#4
screwballl Colonel Calamity Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sandy South Posts: 6,279 Blog Entries: 6	Re: Blue Snow Flakes/Gaming/Videos?? I would try the latest drivers available, if it continues then try the drivers from OmegaDrivers.net if it continues with all drivers then the card is likely bad and should be sent back for warranty work (if still under warranty) Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.

May 23rd, 2008	#5
One4yu2c I don't know how to put this, but, I'm kind of a big deal. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Land of the Lounge Lizards Posts: 2,539 Blog Entries: 3	Re: Blue Snow Flakes/Gaming/Videos?? What make/model power supply is your pops using?

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