motherboards killing video cards?

[Brian]

My last video card went bad and would display vertical
lines when trying to play a game. I sent it in and
recieve a new video card. I played a game once and it
work when I came back it was doing the same thing as the
last video card, the display will corrupt with vertical
lines when trying any video acceleration. Is it possible
my motherboard is hurting my video cards? I have and
asus a7v8x and a radeon 8500dv all-in-wonder.
Thanks brian

 

[brian]

No I dont overclock. But to be able to boot into windows
I have to underclock my cpu or else it wont boot at all.

 

[Joshua Smith [MSFT]]

Do you have an adequate sized power supply? If you have less than 300 watt
power supply and a bunch of "stuff" (scanners, harddrives, cdroms, etc) you
may have damaged your motherboard and in turn your video cards. If your
motherboard and videocard are still under warranty and you are running on a
<300 watt power supply you might want to try getting your MB and video
replaced and getting a bigger power supply.

 

[mouseyface]

It is possible that it is the game if it doesn't do this with other games
that it could be another problem other than the video card. See if there is
a patch or FAQ to resolve this on the game producers website. It could be a
problem with an old game in XP and needs the compatibility mode set. Also,
some monitors will do this if set to the wrong resolution or refresh rate.
Is your monitor set to plug and play (which sometimes will not accept
certain settings that your card will support) or do you have the monitor
"drivers"? Go to your monitor's manufacturer web site and see if they have
anything. Sometimes in WXP you have to push back video acceleration in
order to play older games and some new games. Hope this helps.

 

[Mathiau]

get all bios and mother board updates.- check voltage settings in your bios
to make sure they are all on auto,

Many AMD board have some serious prep work that has to be done to them
before you can really use them