Artifacts driving me crazy help plz!!!

Lasy · 04-11-2009, 03:16 PM

I know for sure that it's not the video card, I tried 3 different video cards Geforce 7900, Radeon HD 4550, and Radeon HD 5830, AND i even switched the RAM today and it still didn't fix the problem

http://s578.photobucket.com/albums/s...109_135820.jpg

http://s578.photobucket.com/albums/s...109_135832.jpg

even the technicians don't know wth is going on...help please

btw its not small dots, like the other people's problems mine are full blown lines ripping through the screens

*I didn't know where to post this

**wrench97** · 04-11-2009, 03:33 PM

They are screen shots and not digital pictures correct?
What power supply, Motherboard and CPU are you using?

Lasy · 04-12-2009, 02:36 PM

And yea, its a screen shot

XP
Board: 775Dual-VSTA 1.00
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. P1.30 07/07/2006

3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache

2048 Megabytes Installed Memory

power supply...pretty sure its a 550

**vladimirb** · 04-12-2009, 02:46 PM

We need to know what PSU brand is????

Lasy · 04-16-2009, 06:28 PM

Codegen 400w

**wrench97** · 04-17-2009, 01:42 AM

I would start by trying a Quality 550w power supply, see if you can borrow one from a friend maybe.

04-11-2009, 03:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
Lasy Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3 OS: XP	Artifacts driving me crazy help plz!!! I know for sure that it's not the video card, I tried 3 different video cards Geforce 7900, Radeon HD 4550, and Radeon HD 5830, AND i even switched the RAM today and it still didn't fix the problem http://s578.photobucket.com/albums/s...109_135820.jpg http://s578.photobucket.com/albums/s...109_135832.jpg even the technicians don't know wth is going on...help please btw its not small dots, like the other people's problems mine are full blown lines ripping through the screens *I didn't know where to post this

04-11-2009, 03:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
wrench97 Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2008 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania Posts: 18,579 OS: Win7	Re: Artifacts driving me crazy help plz!!! They are screen shots and not digital pictures correct? What power supply, Motherboard and CPU are you using? __________________ Power Supply and Selection

04-12-2009, 02:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
Lasy Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3 OS: XP	Re: Artifacts driving me crazy help plz!!! And yea, its a screen shot XP Board: 775Dual-VSTA 1.00 Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. P1.30 07/07/2006 3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 16 kilobyte primary memory cache 2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache 2048 Megabytes Installed Memory power supply...pretty sure its a 550

04-12-2009, 02:46 PM	#4 (permalink)
vladimirb Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Banja Luka, Serb Republic Posts: 3,681 OS: xp pro sp3, Server 2003, Windows 7 Professional x64bit My System	Re: Artifacts driving me crazy help plz!!! We need to know what PSU brand is???? __________________ MCP - MCSA Cisco SMB Account Manager

04-16-2009, 06:28 PM	#5 (permalink)
Lasy Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 3 OS: XP	Re: Artifacts driving me crazy help plz!!! Codegen 400w

04-17-2009, 01:42 AM	#6 (permalink)
wrench97 Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2008 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania Posts: 18,579 OS: Win7	Re: Artifacts driving me crazy help plz!!! I would start by trying a Quality 550w power supply, see if you can borrow one from a friend maybe. __________________ Power Supply and Selection