Major Radeon problems

[gambler2611]

I have a major problem with my Radeon 9700 pro and my elders (ie my dad) say its probably a bust memory module on the card itself. Attached is a pic of what the desktop looks like after the resizing box has been giggled around the screen.

Is there any way it could be an underpowered AGP slot? Or could it possibly be a cooling problem? Would flashing the radeon bios do anything?

If it does turn out to be a memory issue, is it fixable? If not does anybody know if you can buy Radeon memory modules?

I have been driven to do this after my games have been continually crashing for a couple of weeks after i installed it when they were fine on my FX5600.

System specs

P4 2.53 Ghz
Asus P4s8x-x
1gb generic PC2700 memory
80gb IBM deskstar with 8mb cache (games)
10gb IBM deskstar with 2mb cache (system)
Radeon 9700 pro

Any kind of help would be much appreciated.

Andy

EDIT: all grey pixels are actually green but changed to grey when i converted the image to JPEG

[miracle]

hi,
the screen you are getting is due to your old drivers of nvidia. uninstall it through control panel, uninstall ati drivers too and reboot. then install fresh drivers for your 9600 xt and reboot and evreything should be fine. i had this problem too when i bought 9600 xt and had 5600 ultra before it and now its fine.
best regards,
miracles

[gambler2611]

Thanks a lot, ill try that now and keep you updated.

Andy

[gambler2611]

I tried it and it didnt work. I remembered just after i did my previous post that i can completely formatted and killed my PC before i installed this graphics card.

I tried tweaking the hardware acceleration on the properties on the desktop, at current i think it may be a direct x issue because as soon as i enabled major direct x graphical error to be corrected the desktop became as corrupt as in the first image. Whereas without the direct x support there were still graphical errors, but very few.

I am at current downloading new direct x drivers and i will keep you posted.

Andy

[gambler2611]

Didn't work, graphical errors still occuring, i might give up soon. Considering flashing my board bios and/or the graphics card bios too.

Andy

[Peter M]

Might be a Not Enough Power problem. Is your power supply unit up to the task?

[jokostel]

try the trouble shooting tab under the display/advanced section in the control panel... see if that helps ya in there. move the scroll bar over to the far left.... reboot and move it till it happens again and then back it off one notch...

[XxCowOfChaosxX]

doesn't the processor render the desktop?

[Optimus Prime]

no way cow. haven't you ever built a new PC with XP and then see the screen flicker and change res. when it comes up "Windows has found a new device: Geforce 4 Ti4200" or whatever?

[gambler2611]

I have a 300w power supply, im not running a lot of stuff off my system so i figured it was enough.

I would ramp up the voltage on my AGP bus but my dad is all like 'NO WAY YOU'LL FRY THAT THING' so i havent done it...........yet.

Iv tweaked until im done and it still isnt fixed. Do you reckon ramping up the AGP bus voltage to 1.6 volts would do the trick?

Andy