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boon.C
11-12-2005, 11:58 AM
hi..i'm currently facing a prob..when i play games..after awhile (or sometimes when i try to start a game ) some parts of the pixel on the screen will go missing...it's like watching n very bad condition dvd... wher ther's lines n boxes every where on the screen..n the game will juz hang...i doesn't encounter such a prob previously...even though on the same game...it only happen like last 2 days...

when on normal window screen evrything is perfect...same too s when i'm watch movie using my comp...it only happen when i play games..

i'm currently runing on :

amd duron 1.3ghz
512 ram
nvidia gforce 4400mx graphic card...

i'll be happy if any could tell me wat excactly my prob is...thanks
hockey man
11-12-2005, 12:10 PM
We need to know a little more:
What games are you playing when this occures?
How many fans does your pc case have?
do you have the newest drivers for your card?
boon.C
11-12-2005, 12:24 PM
hockey man...my casing only has one fan which is the power supply fan...n sumthing wierd is..my graphic card doesn't hav fans...haha..it only has the metal thing on it..i dunno wat does it do also...errm...bout the driver i'm not too sure whether i hav the latest version or not....n bout the game..it happen to age of empire 3, counter strike n a old game called emporer:rise of the middle kingdom...previously these games runs juz fine...without any prob...
boon.C
11-12-2005, 12:26 PM
n one more thing...i juz got this graphic card like 6 months ago...
hockey man
11-12-2005, 12:50 PM
previously these games runs juz fine

Do you mean before you bought the video card?
boon.C
11-12-2005, 02:45 PM
"previously the game run juz fine" means after getting the video card n using it...it has no prob all along until this few day..then the prob starts to arise...
Sylvander
11-12-2005, 04:33 PM
What I would do in such circumstances is restore an image backup of the C: partition made when everything worked just fine.
If that didn't fix it I'd know that it wasn't a software problem and would begin looking at hardware or BIOS as possible culprits.

If you don't have a backup perhaps you run Winxp and could "jump back" to a suitable "Restore Point".

If you can't do that...
Perhaps you should try a "repair" reinstallation of Windows.
And if that doesn't fix it...
Uninstall and reinstall the games programs.
And if that doesn't fix it...
Reinstall the driver files for the video card.
hockey man
11-12-2005, 06:33 PM
Sylvander, do you think it would be easier to start with simply re-installing the driver before going through all the work of restoring?

boon.C, what did you have for a graphics card before this one?
Sylvander
11-12-2005, 07:22 PM
"do you think it would be easier to start with simply re-installing the driver before going through all the work of restoring? "
I see where you're coming from but...
What I was thinking is...
Drivers are split into modules or parts...
Windows supplies that part of the whole driver that is common...
and the OEM supplies that remaining portion of the driver that links to their hardware...
But this problem is affecting a number of programs...
so I was thinking it might be the windows portion of the driver that is the problem [could be wrong of course]; so perhaps it might be most important to make sure that the Windows installation is ok.
And only then make sure that the OEM portion of the driver is ok.
hockey man
11-12-2005, 08:13 PM
Interesting. Boon, you should follow Sylvander's advice-not mine.
boon.C
11-13-2005, 02:25 AM
ok..thanks guys..but everything juz sound so complicated...haha..nvm..i'll try to do wat i can n wat i know..then i'll see how..thanks so much...n hockey man..b4 this i was having a S3 virge GX2..it's a video adapter i think...
hockey man
11-13-2005, 02:48 PM
boon.C, did you complete remove the old drivers? Have you gone to your card manufacturer's web site to get the newest drivers?
saphalline
11-15-2005, 03:16 AM
some parts of the pixel on the screen will go missing...it's like watching n very bad condition dvd... wher ther's lines n boxes every where on the screenSounds like a vid RAM corruption problem. Could be heat related, or it could be that one or more of the vid card's RAM chips went bad. Try putting that old S3 Virge GX2 back in and see if the problems still occur. Or try opening the case and set up a house fan to blow air into the case.

It could also be a software problem, but I tend to think that if the games were running smoothly for 6 months and this problem occured over the last few days, then something could be wrong with the vid card (pending any major software changes recently).