Video Card, CPU, Ram???

Hello all, this is my first post! Thank you in advance for you
help....I have a Pentium 4 2.4ghz, ABIT AI7 mobo, 1gig of PC2700 ram,
and an 80gig hardrive.. I am having major problems! About a month ago
I started getting dots all over my desktop screen. They were usually
white, but I eventually started getting blue, green, yellow, and many
others. Anyway, this has turned into a bigger problem. In games it
looks like the ground is moving, as well as I get smeared graphics and
major glitches, but yet I still get good fps. I am talking about FPS
game such as COD, CS:source, BFV. I was pretty sure it was my video
card, but since there have been odd things occuring on my desktop too,
I was wondering if it was something else, like my CPU???? Please helo
Also as I type, I am getting a green ouline around my letters....

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"REDneck87" <UseLinkToEmail@HardwareForumz.com> wrote in message
news:7_292034_0c08843edaa1763df07b14b5e989a0c7@hardwareforumz.com...
> Hello all, this is my first post! Thank you in advance for you
> help....I have a Pentium 4 2.4ghz, ABIT AI7 mobo, 1gig of PC2700 ram,
> and an 80gig hardrive.. I am having major problems! About a month ago
> I started getting dots all over my desktop screen. They were usually
> white, but I eventually started getting blue, green, yellow, and many
> others. Anyway, this has turned into a bigger problem. In games it
> looks like the ground is moving, as well as I get smeared graphics and
> major glitches, but yet I still get good fps. I am talking about FPS
> game such as COD, CS:source, BFV. I was pretty sure it was my video
> card, but since there have been odd things occuring on my desktop too,
> I was wondering if it was something else, like my CPU???? Please helo
> Also as I type, I am getting a green ouline around my letters....
....

I'd guess the problem is almost certainly a video card issue.
The card could be failing. <- Replace it.
The card could be overheating. <- Check fans and ventilation.
The card could be overclocked beyond its limits. <- Stop overclocking.


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I had a GeForce3 some time ago, and started seeing similar behavior; in
certain games I would see polygons appear where there should be none
(like right across the screen in front of someone's face), and I also
got the dotted effect - I saw this when I ran the 3dMark benchmark, in
a few of the graphics tests.

I did everything I could think of, including a full system scrub, and
mucking with various versions of drivers and DirectX. No change.

I ultimately had to blame the hardware; I'm guessing that some of the
cache ram on the card was failing. I replaced the card and all was
well.

In my case, this started happening at a pretty discrete time, and it
happened even after leaving the machine on overnight and running the
test right away.

I think you're looking at a pooched card.

The best test would be to find another machine you could swap vid cards
with - if the problem follows the card, the card is the problem.