UPDATE: I have completely fixed this problem! (please read the rest of this info before commenting.) I just swapped out the Ballistics RAM for some new OCZ FLEX and the problem was completely and instantly gone. I didn’t know a memory issue could do this and not report errors in memtest.. -Original Problem- This is what my computer screen looked like! I have built my own system and it has worked great for a long time. I’m having this problem in Windows Vista 32 with my 8800GTS 512 using any drivers (even ones that worked in the past). I have RMA’ed the GPU and Motherboard to no avail. However, after swapping out the ram for identical sticks (Crucial Ballistics Tracers) it was fixed for several months, but now it is back (still no errors in memTest86). At first it is not very bad, just a flicker here and there, then some boxes and pixels flashing onto the screen, but it continues to get worse. sometimes it freezes up and i eventually get a Blue Screen saying something about the graphics driver stopped responding and could not recover. I get “Video Hardware Error” for Windows in the Vista Problem Reports and Solutions (22 of them today) When i press CTRL + ALT + DEL everything seems fine, but when return to the Vista desktop the corruption is back. (i changed the log on screen background, but you can ignore that). It has not happened yet in safe mode or when the Aero Theme is disabled (set to Vista Basic). I use Remote Desktop almost daily, and it has never done this during …
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The Blue Screen of Death should of came up!
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it must not have been too corrupted to start up, but over a few minutes time the small corruption got magnified after many read/writes and or calculations in the portions of RAM used for video output.
in that case it might be the video card or your RAM is worse off than mine was.
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What if this happens when your pc is loading
That Was Actually happening to me in Summer ! i’m not getting the Problem again
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BTW it wasn’t The RAM i guess !
did u fix your problem.. coz i’m having the same one
if u had a bad ram your computer wont even load the bios…
then how is this a ram problem?
are u kiddin!!!!?
What you are referring to is a technique called “re-flowing.” It re-melts the solder and hopefully re-flows it into the correct spot. This is only a temporary fix because in about a week or two, the problem will once again arise, and you will be screwed.
Holy shit!!! how’d you get more than one program running on your computer?!?!?
Unthinkable with mine.
XD my dad change the ram and it did like that XD
try to turn of aero
try to turn off aero
oh my god do i have to buy new ram .. this is happen to me when play games and sometimes the pc freezes.. they will kill me if they see this
hey ..what do u mean by (oven) is it the heating sink
Not bad Ram, but an artifacting Graphics Card. Replace the Graphics card, or contact manufacturer of Graphics card and ask for a replacement. If your computer was purchased from Dell or HP, then contact them first, assuming if it is still under warranty.
oMG my parents would kill me if that happened to me
you’re welcome.
Thanks you really helped me out! Dam mexican
So, have you checked the RAM? Replaced it? Ran memtest on it? I’m having a problem with a desktop I just assembled, it occasionally freezes up. I ran memtest, even though I didn’t think it was the RAM, and the test says it has no problems with RAM really. I don’t know if I just buy video card and disable the onboard, or try to get a replacement… It’s not my top computer, so I didn’t want to spend time/money on it too much anyway…
don’t laugh at his jokes, he may stop trying to act funny.
thanks for your input, but I replaced the GPU first and and it still did this on the brand new one….and now i am still using the same GPU 2 years later and it still works fine.