I am having a problem with my graphics card I think. It usually only happends after I have been playing game for a little, but when I either open the color selector in image editing programs (about 3 times) or sometimes, but much more rarly (happend once), when I'm using Gmax, I get ramdom things drawn on my screen.
I hesitate calling them artifacts because they are not really shapes, but more lines...
This is something I made that looks a lot like it because when it does it the computer slows down greatly and I immediatly shut it down, in fear that there is some kind of long term damage being done. If needed I think it would be possible to take a screen shot, but I didn't want to do that untill I was told it was needed. The ones like that look like the picture but sometimes are outlines in purple, and stay still. But sometimes the lines are smaller, many colors and move a little. I don't need to wait for it to cool down, a quick on and off fixes it.
So here I am, I don't know a whole lot about solving problems like this with graphic cards, so I turn to the massive ammount of knowlege on these forums.
It is about 9 and a half mounths old (christmas morning if anyone wants to do the math better) Nvidia Ge-force 5200+ 128 bit 128 mb PCI version.
This is very rare, about 4 times ever (started happening less than 2 months ago), but even though it's not the best out there I try to take care of my computer and there is a problem in there somewhere and I want to fix it.
Thanks for any help you give, especially if its not get a new card because if thats it then no Battlefield Vietnam for a while...
I hesitate calling them artifacts because they are not really shapes, but more lines...
This is something I made that looks a lot like it because when it does it the computer slows down greatly and I immediatly shut it down, in fear that there is some kind of long term damage being done. If needed I think it would be possible to take a screen shot, but I didn't want to do that untill I was told it was needed. The ones like that look like the picture but sometimes are outlines in purple, and stay still. But sometimes the lines are smaller, many colors and move a little. I don't need to wait for it to cool down, a quick on and off fixes it.
So here I am, I don't know a whole lot about solving problems like this with graphic cards, so I turn to the massive ammount of knowlege on these forums.
It is about 9 and a half mounths old (christmas morning if anyone wants to do the math better) Nvidia Ge-force 5200+ 128 bit 128 mb PCI version.
This is very rare, about 4 times ever (started happening less than 2 months ago), but even though it's not the best out there I try to take care of my computer and there is a problem in there somewhere and I want to fix it.
Thanks for any help you give, especially if its not get a new card because if thats it then no Battlefield Vietnam for a while...
