Display Corruption Madness

Wonko Wenusberg · Post by **Wonko Wenusberg** » January 10, 2004, 12:40 pm

Getting screen corruption during cold boot, in bios and everywhere...

Running Dell hardware diagnostics gives this Error

Failure while reading and writing video memory. VideoMode Dh.(320x200x16) adress A0200h, expected to read 0h, but read FF00FFh instead.

So is my graphic card's memory dead, or could it be driver related?

Pic of the problem:
http://w1.837.telia.com/~u83707037/Bilder/Cor1.JPG

infos:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 1 (2600.xpsp2.030422-1633)
Language: Swedish (Regional Setting: Swedish)
System Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
System Model: Dimension 8300
BIOS: DELL - 7
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Memory: 510MB RAM
Page File: 184MB used, 1065MB available
Primary File System: n/a
DirectX Version: DirectX 8.1 (4.08.01.0810)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.01.2600.1106 32bit Unicode
Card name: 128 DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

Llaffer · Post by **Llaffer** » January 10, 2004, 1:23 pm

IF you can boot it into safe mode, can remove the drivers and restart using the default lamo drivers -- it could be the drivers.

If you can't do the above steps due to continuing problems, it's likely the card.

A little game of process of elimination.

Wonko Wenusberg · Post by **Wonko Wenusberg** » January 10, 2004, 2:11 pm

Tested almost all drivers, and the problem is still there. Removed them with driver cleaner when reinstalling , so there should not be a driver failure, but when i formated, and reinstalled win xp the problem was gone - for one day.

It's so strange.

And Dell Support is the slowest procedure I've encountered, at least in Sweden.

Post by **Xouqoa** » January 10, 2004, 3:23 pm

I had a similar problem with my vid card, but it was pink dots on everything. I ended up sending the card back for a replacement to the manufacturer and it no longer does it.

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » January 10, 2004, 5:41 pm

Xouqoa wrote:I had a similar problem with my vid card, but it was pink dots on everything. I ended up sending the card back for a replacement to the manufacturer and it no longer does it.

How do you know??! Whereever that card is now, it might still be producing the pink dots!!!!

Wonko Wenusberg · Post by **Wonko Wenusberg** » January 11, 2004, 7:23 am

Was hardware failure, new card otw!

Cracc · Post by **Cracc** » January 11, 2004, 1:47 pm

To much pr0n will do that to a graphics card wonkiz!

Wonko Wenusberg · Post by **Wonko Wenusberg** » January 11, 2004, 2:16 pm

Oh n0z!

i refuse to delete my german archive with class A pr0n!

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