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Thread ID: 77151	2007-02-28 22:31:00	Video Problem	Enigmur (10547)	Press F1

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528940	2007-02-28 22:31:00	I am submitting this question on behalf of a friend. His problem is when playing certain games, the pc will freeze, the screen will go blurred 'barcode' like, with smeared colours, the speakers will emit a buzz, and the video card itself will deliver a high pitch hum. He has had this problem since buying his pc. The system is AMD, on a gigabyte board, an albatron 7600GT video card, 1gb ADATA RAM, Seagate 250gb HDD. I tried the video card on my pc, on the same drivers and it worked fine. We updated his motherboard BIOS and it still has the problem. I actually think this is a Motherboard problem, or even a RAM problem - has anyone come across something like this before? I will try get a hold of a copy of GoldMemory and run a test overnight on the PC and see if the memory passes. If it does, it must be the motherboard. I would try my card in there (Gigabyte 7900GS) but it doesnt sound good when the problem occurs, I'd rather not risk damaging my card. Any Ideas??	Enigmur (10547)
528941	2007-02-28 23:37:00	Return it under warranty.	Tukapa (62)
528942	2007-03-01 00:17:00	Graphics problem. Follow advice given in previous reply. Do NOT mess about with it, take it back.	pctek (84)
528943	2007-03-01 01:05:00	Okay will do, but if it turns out non faulty, then we will have to pay a re-stocking fee most likely. How could it be that it does strange things in his system, yet runs sweet as in mine?	Enigmur (10547)
528944	2007-03-02 00:18:00	Well I got my friend to run Memtest overnight. He emailed me the result thismorning - "I ran the mem test over night last night and when I got up this morning it had.. well I think it is 26 pass 2 error, but there is another one below it highlighted in red saying Tst Pass Failing address Good bad err-bit Count chan 5 14 000009dcb24 - 9.7mb 01185f5b 41185f5b 40000000 2 " The layout of it is a bit bung, but you can see any error messages of interest in it. Seems that it was a RAM problem, though would Memtest test video RAM aswell as system RAM? I have got him to email that all to the company he bought it from, it should be sufficient proof his memory is failing. I assume it is the system RAM as the card worked perfect on my system. So hopefully this fixes the problem, I will try to remember to post once he gets his replacement.	Enigmur (10547)
528945	2007-03-02 07:08:00	That is a not unheard of problem for RAM. Mem test does not test video RAM Running a game does use parts of your RAM that usually never gets used. It is safe to say thee RAM is dead	apparition (3207)
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