radeon X850 xt, wierd broken lines on screen

[Philster23]

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4353/brokenscreen.png

that is a screenshot.

i didnt do anything, i was actually away for a day with the monitor off and the computer running like i allways do.

it really doesnt do anything special but while i was searching the web it went black for a couple secs and came back, never use to do this, i tried installing their newest legacy driver thinking maybe the old one is corrupt, but it isnt the case. anyone know whats wrong, is it fixible or quarantinable like a broken pipeline i can turn off or something?

 

[newtekie1]

Broken card, probably a bad memory chip.

 

[Philster23]

so it would probably be worthwhile to spend 100 bucks and get a sapphire hd 3850 agp 8x card? i really dont have the money atm to build a new rig, i had a new one and i sold it for more then i built it for, probably a bad idea but i did it

 

[intel igent]

if you got some time pull the card out and remove the HSF, give it a good cleaning and re-apply some fresh TIM and cinch the HSF back down and try again, worth a shot

 

[Philster23]

HSF would be heat sink fan?, and TIM i guess would be a thermal compound like AS3

 

[DRDNA]

First try a different Monitor cable.GL

 

[Philster23]

see i would say it isnt the monitor cable only cause, when it switchs from bios boot screen, to where its verying my dmi pool or whatever, they dissappear

 

[DRDNA]

Whens the last time you cleaned the dust from the GPU cooler?

 

[Philster23]

about 4 months ago, i have a filterd case, i can see there isnt hardly anything in there

 

[Philster23]

its been running at like a steady 95 degress, the gpu that is
wow now i am getting something saying direct3d functionality is not available
am now updating direct x 9

 

[DRDNA]

95 is too high ..use atitool to turn the fan up.

 

[intel igent]

i used to cringe when my GFX card's got over 50!

i love watercooling

steady 95 is a sign of something bad! poor HSF contact, dead fan, clogged fan, poor case ventilation, etc..... etc.....

 

[Philster23]

95 fahrenheit is too high? my ambient temperature in my house is 72, i think thats pretty good for a hepa filterd case
i orderd a hd3850 i reseated the heatsink and it only dropped to 90, and i have 5 vantec tornado's (yay for noise)

 

[ShadowFold]

When talking computer degree's, it's almost always in C. 95F is fine, the card is dead if it's showing artifacts like that.

 

[Philster23]

yea i mean wow, i didnt even know a video card could cause lag like this, when loading things, sometimes it goes to a blackscreen for a few secs then comes back, its ok i got a better card coming in the mail

 

[intel igent]

could also be a driver issue, it has happened to me with all of my ATi card's at one point or another 9600/x850/3850

 

[ShogoXT]

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=1425180
Recommend checking that out.

 

[Philster23]

thanks guys for all your help, atm my bios is fucking me, my highest option for video card memory is 256mb, im trying to find a bios flash upgrade but seems soyo went out of business or something i havent been able to get on their website.

if anyone would know where to get drivers for a soyo p4i865pe plus dragon 2 mobo, i would greatly appreciate it, i meant bios upgrade