GPU-Z mangled video on my Dell M60

[PSmith]

OK, I know it's old model, anyway I'm using it each day.

I did try GPU-Z v2.1 and 1.20 - same result - on a screen you see only colorful horizontal dashes.
Video is Nvidia Quadro FX go700 [128 MB], a screen is 15.4" 1680x1050 .

Could you please fix your program ? If you need do some testing, I'm all for help

 

[Naki]

Are you sure it is not a hardware issue, please? Could be the videocard is starting to fail, or already gone (damaged). As your computer is a laptop, the motherboard might be failing too.
Please note this photo looks very much like a hardware issue with your card, or your Dell mobile workstation motherboard.
What is your Windows OS? Such as WinXP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10/etc.

Can you check if FurMark works? (Carefully however, NOT to overheat the card or your CPU/motherboard! If you see temps rising too much, stop the FurMark test immediately.)
Link: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

Also, do some basic 3D tests - do 3DMark, Unigine Heaven, Unigine Valley - do you see anything unusual? Such as the screen you sent photo of, or any other glitches/artifacts - wrong/funny colors, lines where there should not be any, blinking pixels or areas?
You can download these here:
https://www.3dmark.com/
https://benchmark.unigine.com/heaven
https://benchmark.unigine.com/valley

Also, if you try an older GPU-Z version, such as 1.16.0, does the same thing happen, OR does it work fine?
You can download older GPU-Z versions here:
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/ (click Show more versions link)

Also, please check if other similar apps work or fail:
http://www.ozone3d.net/gpu_caps_viewer/
http://www.ozone3d.net/gpushark/

 

[P4-630]

When you startup GPU-Z your graphic card runs at highest clocks for a second.
I think your graphics card somehow may have issues running at higher clocks.
Your card could work normally on idle clocks.

 

[PSmith]

It's WinXp Pro SP3. Posting snapshots of GPU Caps Viewer.

 

[P4-630]

63 degrees C on idle? A bit high IMO...

 

[DRDNA]

63 degrees C on idle? A bit high IMO...

Yes Sir.....looks like the laptop is probably full of dust for GPU and probably CPU cooling. Maybe canned air to the rescue if he didn't already heat damage the hardware.

 

[PSmith]

Nope, just warm to touch, I would say +40C. It's just the version show it incorrectly.
Anyway, it will not fix GPU-Z. Versions up to 0.8.5 does working on the PC.

I did try Furmark 1.19 and 1.10, got only an error 120.

A snapshot of the error.

 

[PSmith]

Seems to me, it's narrowed down to some change in a code from v0.8.5. After that all versions inhered the bug.

 

[W1zzard]

Sorry, being slow to respond, just back from Computex

Let's do some testing. Contact me on Skype (text-chat only): w2zzard

 

[PSmith]

What I got this morning:
- room temp is +25C
- the notebook was off at night
- right after boot: GPU-Z - +46 C, HWmon(HDD) - +31 C
- 15 min later: GPU-Z - +60 C, HWmon(HDD) - +40 C

 

[W1zzard]

Those temps should be correct then. half of 46 is 23, which isn't possible with 25°C room temp

 

[PSmith]

if we could ask nvidia about the ratio ... what if it is 2/3 ?
let me check by a real thermometer...
adding to that a room thermometer is 3m away from the NB what reside near open window

 

[PSmith]

Well, latest measure: NB after cold boot at room +24C, HDD sensor: +25C, GPU temp by GPU-Z shows +33C
I would say the ratio is 0.75 for Nvidia Quadro go700 GPU.