Display corruption

[Sawat]

First off, I have an ATI Radeon 9800 XT, but recently I have been
getting some display issues.

On normal applications, such as Word or any other 2D application, I get
small vertical columns of pink rectangles blazed across the screen.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/sawat/displayissues.jpg

I also have problems in 3D applications, such as games, in which the
textures seem to be smeared across the screen. It is like someone
grabbed a point of the texture, lets say a wall, and stretched that
point to the opposite side of the screen.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/sawat/textureproblem.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/sawat/displaycorruption2.jpg

There are also some issues with the pixels, where there would be a
cluster that would make objects see through.

I've upgraded to the most recent driver, Catalyst 6.10, but that only
made matters worse (after installing I wasn't even able to open up my
game, plus the vertical bands were still on the screen), so I went back
to the version I was using before, Catalyst 6.3

Any help would be appreciated
- Sawat

 

[JLC]

First off, I have an ATI Radeon 9800 XT, but recently I have been
getting some display issues.

On normal applications, such as Word or any other 2D application, I get
small vertical columns of pink rectangles blazed across the screen.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/sawat/displayissues.jpg

Have you checked to make sure the fan is still spinning on the card. It
could be clogged up with dust or the card itself could be so dirty that it's
overheating.
When you removed the old drivers did you use ATI UninstallALL?
You can find it where you installed the drivers, or do a search for
"AtiCimUn.exe"
It removes almost every trace of any ATI program on your PC. Gives you a
nice clean start. JLC

 

[Greg Campbell]

First off, I have an ATI Radeon 9800 XT, but recently I have been
getting some display issues.

On normal applications, such as Word or any other 2D application, I get
small vertical columns of pink rectangles blazed across the screen.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/sawat/displayissues.jpg

I also have problems in 3D applications, such as games, in which the
textures seem to be smeared across the screen. It is like someone
grabbed a point of the texture, lets say a wall, and stretched that
point to the opposite side of the screen.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/sawat/textureproblem.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/sawat/displaycorruption2.jpg

There are also some issues with the pixels, where there would be a
cluster that would make objects see through.

I've upgraded to the most recent driver, Catalyst 6.10, but that only
made matters worse (after installing I wasn't even able to open up my
game, plus the vertical bands were still on the screen), so I went back
to the version I was using before, Catalyst 6.3

Any help would be appreciated
- Sawat

Sounds/looks like Old Video Card Disease. Over time, thermal stresses
cause cracks in the solder joints that attach the GPU to the board. Try
gently bending the card (just a tiny amount) while it's runing. If 'm
right, the display wil instantly wierd out.

The only cure is to reflow the solder - something you could, if
desperate, try with a blowtorch and lots of electronic flux. The
survival rate for this procedure is pretty low....

Before resorting to that, remove the card, or at least rock it back and
forth in the socket a few time, to clean any corrosion or whatwever off
the contacts. Check the fan. Other than that, there's not much to be done.

-Greg