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 Post subject: Too hot summer or too dead PC?
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:08 am 
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Ok, i have some problems with my PC. I'm gonna take my PC to the hands of good ppl that gonna fix it, but firstly i'd like to know what is wrong? :)

When i'm moving application windows, there appears many red/green/blue dots...when i minimize and maximize it again, it looks pretty clean, but still has some dots. Move it again, and lots of dots again :D


Well, picture explains it all...

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OVERHEATING?

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I don't see any dots.

You must be going insane.

I suggest locking yourself in a mental institution.


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Looks like you took a crayon and drew all over your screen :P


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:15 am 
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it looks the video cards memory is failing (caused by overheating) this is happening a lot lately i guess because of summer? i dunno

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Disconn3cted wrote:
it looks the video cards memory is failing (caused by overheating) this is happening a lot lately i guess because of summer? i dunno


Well...it started this summer, in winter everything was ok :)

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my laptop crashs in the heat but i usualy keep it running for 2 weeks in a row so its pretty much got no battery no more hehe

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Punch in a few holes in ur pc box and you should be fine :)

More Ventalation=Less Over Heating!

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If those are photos, it's your monitor. If those are screenshots...

By default your PC will restart or turn off at a designated temperature. This is usually set to a safe temperature with a lot of padding. It would of restarted over and over before harming your graphics card. However, just from demanding usage caused by heat, or day to day wear, your hardware might be failing. I'd swap in another graphics card, check the bios to make sure you don't have a shut down temp and check if it helps.

Your motherboard should come with an integrated graphics card, you can use that if you don't have an extra graphics card laying around. If you are using your integrated graphics card, then maybe instead of replacing the motherboard, just getting a new card would fix that: i'm not sure.

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You could always try turning you GFX card clocks down, see if it gets rid of the artifacts.

If you have an ATI card I suggest
http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

It will basically set your card at the highest setting before artifacts appear.

Make a note of your default clocks, so you can set it back in the winter.


BTW, as said, unless those are not print screens, it wont be your monitor.

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