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    Something wrong with M6805 video card (pics)

    Discussion in 'eMachines' started by Kiamo, Jan 7, 2005.

  1. Kiamo

    Kiamo Newbie

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    As the title says...

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    I was playing some Counter-Strike:Source on a break and it just suddenly messed up like this out of nowhere. Restarted and it stuck (even in BIOS). Left it off for a while hoping it was heat, but that didn't fix it. :( It does this on both LCD and external CRT.

    One boot it had crazy animating characters on the booting screen.. like a bunch would go from nothing to a music note and back over and over. Crazyness.

    Its a Radeon 9600 Mobility 64MB.

    Any ideas at all or things to try before I have to sent it off under warranty?
     
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  2. davids

    davids Notebook Consultant

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    methinks, video card.

    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Kiamo
     
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  3. AJVETT

    AJVETT Notebook Evangelist

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    have you been overclocking the Video card recently?
     
    AJVETT, Jan 8, 2005
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  4. zeux84

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    Well, I've just bought my new emachines 6809 refurbished on tigerdirect.com... and it has the same problem... just like yours...

    After a while with heavy video loading, like a 3d game running, or heavy video program like Photoshop, the pixels on the screen suddently go crazy...

    I've tried original drivers, old and newest drivers... Recovery CD don't fix the problem as well..

    It seems like a overheating or bad attached hardware problem... I've had something very close to it with my old pc radeon 9500 pro.. It had the same crazy pixels problem, and it was only a bad attached card in the agp slot.

    Well, but I've also seen pixels go crazy like that after an overclock in a video card. But I've never overclocked my emachines radeon 9600 mobility 64mb... The app says it has the default clock, so...

    The only way to solve this problem is sending it back to emachines... (not like a simple thing since I live in Brazil)..
     
    zeux84, Jan 15, 2005
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  5. Learux

    Learux Notebook Consultant

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    Looks like bad video ram to me!

    Dont overclock your RAM to aggresive guys.

    Learux
     
    Learux, Jan 29, 2005
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