Yes Kevin, I'm aware you have a separate GFX card.

The point I was making was that my customer's very similar problem disappeared as soon as I installed a PCI (read - alternative) card in her PC.

The inference was that perhaps another card would solve your problem.  I guess I should have spelt this out the first time.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
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  Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 6:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Overheating videocard?


  In a message dated 9/15/03 5:22:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
  [log in to unmask] writes:

  > A customer brought in a machine last week with almost identical symptoms.
  > In her case, the graphics circuitry wasn't on a card, but embedded in the
  > motherboard, with a take-off socket that was connected to the backplate plug by
  > a ribbon cable.
  >
  > After disconnecting it and installing a PCI gfx card, the problem went away.
  >
  >

  Thanks Ian,  I don't have graphics on the mobo.  It's a separate AGP card.
  The artifacting gets worse the longer I have solitaire/freecell open but now
  I'm noticing errant pixels in other programs too.  I've got the cover off the
  computer but I don't think that's making any difference.

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