PETC
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I've got an old ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb video card (I know, ancient technology) and it was doing fine for years. Then I overclocked it and it was still doing fine, outperforming a lot of cards and keeping its temp down.
One day I overclocked it waaaay too much on accident and the screen artifacted everywhere. I quickly set it back to normal before the screen was unreadable and the card has worked ever since, albeit slower. It can no longer operate at stock clock frequencies and needs to be turned down to operate without artifacting.
Recently it has been artifacting upon initiation during windows startup and now it's finally affecting my desktop/GUI.
I just thought I'd post a screenshot here just in case I have misdiagnosed this problem. Perhaps you guys could give me your opinions?
I have no money right now... a very bad time for my video card to start dying on me...
One day I overclocked it waaaay too much on accident and the screen artifacted everywhere. I quickly set it back to normal before the screen was unreadable and the card has worked ever since, albeit slower. It can no longer operate at stock clock frequencies and needs to be turned down to operate without artifacting.
Recently it has been artifacting upon initiation during windows startup and now it's finally affecting my desktop/GUI.
I just thought I'd post a screenshot here just in case I have misdiagnosed this problem. Perhaps you guys could give me your opinions?
I have no money right now... a very bad time for my video card to start dying on me...