Computer Hralp

[Shannacore]

I am getting a lot of this....

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And a lot of this....

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I'm on a Dell XPS A2420 (Vista 32). It has an Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT in it that has updated drivers.

Any ideas? Impossible to do anything with the screen either flickering or fuzzy.

♥ Tralina

[Danyelle]

Try this.

My guess would be, though, that either your GPU is burning out, your RAM is burning out, or one of the sockets that connects GPU or RAM on your mainboard is damaged.

No promises though.

[Faywind]

Originally Posted by Danyelle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My guess would be, though, that either your GPU is burning out, your RAM is burning out, or one of the sockets that connects GPU or RAM on your mainboard is damaged.

This.

It happened to me about 2 months ago. Luckily I have access to electronic repair equipment such as a heat gun at my work so I just reseated the GPU by applying uniform heat to it for about 8 minutes.

Card is running without issues now, no more artifacts on the screen. If you don't know what you're doing I wouldn't suggest this though because you will most likely end up damaging your video card.

I've also heard that "baking" your video card has the same effect and can be done easily (there are youtube videos on it) but I wouldn't recommend it unless you have no other choice.

Good Luck!

[Kimm Barely]

this happens to me sometimes

what fixes it for me is deleting the system32 folder in your C:\Windows folder

then reboot, this should clear out the corruption

let us know how it works out

[Alawen]

This is hard to diagnose remotely, but those sorts of artifacts are usually related to hardware and not software. I'm going to take a guess here that the fan on your graphics card has gotten dusty and is no longer sufficiently cooling your GPU. You can try to clean it by buying a can of compressed air at Staples or Office Max and blasting the dust out of your fan.