My XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT is freaking out!

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cowboy_wilhelm

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I am having major issues with this graphics card. The screen occasionally flickers, pixels turn to random colors, and when I run a game it completely freaks out. I don't even know how to describe it, but here is a screen shot from Half-Life 2: Episode Two that sums it up. This happens with any game, not just Valve games. Eventually the lines start going everywhere and the driver crashes. I have the most recent driver release for Windows Vista 32-bit. This machine originally ran Windows XP, but this problem began before the upgrade to Vista, so it can't be entirely blamed on Vista. In fact, I had trouble with all the driver releases for XP, aside from the original that came on the software in the box. Still, this didn't develop until 1.5 years after building the computer. Can anyone help identify the problem and what I need to do? Maybe something with running two monitors? Is it a hardware problem with the card and it's more-or-less "fried"? Many thanks in advance.
 
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Most likely the card is overheating, damaged because of overheating or just simply dying because of its age. Artifacting and crashing almost always mean that the card is overheating or dying. Clean the heatsink & fan out, as a matter of fact clean out the entire case as well and see if that helps.

BTW the link you gave us doesn't work.
 
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Everything is clean. It's possible there could have been heat damage. Come to think of it, this started happening around April or May. In the fall I got a new desk that didn't have great air flow, so the damage may not have happened until it started getting hot out.
 
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I have a same problem with my old XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT on The Elder Scrolls 4Oblivion and World of Warcraft. Once I got that, it wont go away, It keep comming back even mine is clean from dust. It is not overheated, and it reading 58C on gaming.

Edit: I brought Radeon HD 4870 in few weeks ago and this will blow that card away.
 
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