RE: I've got a major problem.

[Marc9118]

Well, I have no idea what I did, but I am getting very scared. I fried my motherboard AGP slot once, and I really don't want to go through the agravation again. My colors are all discolored. Now I can see if this was just one video card, but I've tested three! They all have different problems, but they mostly deal with color. These cards are fried. But please do not tell me that I fried my AGP SLOT AGAIN on my motherboard.

I cannot even load games: http://online.freeware.info.pl anymore.. It just freezes... Also, my computer will start displaying these "red" streaks on my screen




Notice the tint of blue in the backround of 3d mark. That's not suppose to be there. You should see the pictures when I actually run 3d mark. It won't let me take pictures though while I am running the tests.

[jdbnsn]

If you are testing the AGP slot with 3 known to be fried video cards, I would guess that the results are unreliable to say whether or not the slot is fried. You don't have a working card to test it with?

[tybrenis]

Jdbnsn is completely correct. You'll never be able to diagnose the problem until you test it with a working video card.

[XcOM]

also that print screen will not be accurate, as on my machine it looks fine.

[Cevinzol]

You're posted screen shot looks fine from here.
and yeah testing with questionable parts gives questionable answers.
What did you do just before this happened?
I'm wondering if maybe its a corrupted video driver or something.
How does it look in safe mode?

[DaveW]

Make sure your cards and motherboard run on the same voltage-in theory it's impossible to put the wrong voltage AGP card into the motherboard, it's not supposed to fit into the slot. But i think a lot of motherboards will still take some 3.3volt AGP cards, even though it fries the board. I could be wrong, but it's a possibility worth checking out.

-Dave

[Slug Toy]

just out of curiosity, how the heck did you manage to fry three cards, if in fact you DO mean it?

[XcOM]

have you tested these 3 cards on another machine?

[nil8]

Have you considered that it could be your monitor? That pic looks alright.

[jrabbitb]

if your monitor is not the problem i would consider that your system is simply unstable rather then fried.

if your overclocking try going back to stock settings and see if you still have a problem.

if thats not it then try playing with the video cards settings in bios, be careful though, read up on each of the settings before you change any of them cuz some of them WILL fry your card if not set correctly

i also recomend running a memory testing program like memtest http://www.memtest86.com/

and try running prime95 http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=103 to test your processor for stability issues.

If stability isnt the problem than you will need to either put your video card in someone elses machine or test a known working video card in your machine, if you dont have one you can always get one from newegg for like $20.

good luck.

[CanaBalistic]

The reason the screen shots arent messed up is because the information needed to take the shot is fine. the problem is with the grafixs cards abillity to show the appropiate information correctly.

As for the problems, im clueless...