Several weeks ago, I began experiencing a problem with my desktop computer. While playing games, polygon points would seem to stretch out into infinity sometimes tons of junk would appear on the screen, forcing me to restart to remove them. I found out that these are symptoms of failing video RAM, which I considered a reasonable thing as my video card was four years old.
I ordered a GeForce 7600GS 256MB as a replacement, but I experienced a totally different set of problems with it. In many games, white bars would appear on textures and text could become unreadable. Sometimes some textures would become rainbow-like. Other games would lock up (except for the sound) for a good 10-20 seconds every minute, rendering them totally unplayable. Because these problems were totally different than the ones on my old card, I assumed that perhaps I had just gotten a bad new card. I RMAed it and got a replacement in a couple weeks.
I installed the replacement 7600GS a couple days ago and I still experience the same problems.
I am reasonably certain that it is not the following:
-Drivers (I have reinstalled, uninstalled, cleaned out, and attempted different drivers to no effect)
-Over heating (the card remains at 60C or less when gaming)
So, what could possibly cause two different sets of problems on two different types of cards and the same problem on two of same card?
I am considering that it may be a motherboard issue, but I am reluctant to spend more money unless I am absolutely convinced that it will fix the issues.
Please respond with ideas.
I ordered a GeForce 7600GS 256MB as a replacement, but I experienced a totally different set of problems with it. In many games, white bars would appear on textures and text could become unreadable. Sometimes some textures would become rainbow-like. Other games would lock up (except for the sound) for a good 10-20 seconds every minute, rendering them totally unplayable. Because these problems were totally different than the ones on my old card, I assumed that perhaps I had just gotten a bad new card. I RMAed it and got a replacement in a couple weeks.
I installed the replacement 7600GS a couple days ago and I still experience the same problems.
I am reasonably certain that it is not the following:
-Drivers (I have reinstalled, uninstalled, cleaned out, and attempted different drivers to no effect)
-Over heating (the card remains at 60C or less when gaming)
So, what could possibly cause two different sets of problems on two different types of cards and the same problem on two of same card?
I am considering that it may be a motherboard issue, but I am reluctant to spend more money unless I am absolutely convinced that it will fix the issues.
Please respond with ideas.