[Mackerel]

Hello.
I have noticed, since playing Call of Duty 4, that I am getting graphics glitches while playing games. World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike, and Call of Duty 4 all get the same glitches. Every now and then bars will stretch all the way across a map, sometimes they are coming out of other players and sometimes the environment. Then sometimes I'll walk to a certain point and walls of solid colors will be there until I look at a different angle or walk past them. Its really irritating. I updated my drivers and that didn't work.
I use a Dell Inspiron E1705 with:
2GB RAM
T2600 @ 2.16 GHz
Geforce GO 7900 GS

Screenshot from COD4 as example:
this one is just a small bar, but they cant be quite big as well and I won't be able to see anything behind it until I pass through it

[Dave Hybrid]

Running latest graphics drivers?

[Carbon]

Overheating causes 99.9% of all artifacts :)

[Mackerel]

Yes, but is it artifacts? I thought artifacts were more like pixel glitches. These seem to be in game, they stretch from other players sometimes and if I move to a different angle they disappear until I go back to the original angle. Its really odd and hard to explain.
It also says my NVIDIA GPU is running at 73 C

[Carbon]

Oh, well in that case, drivers are probably the issue.

[Mackerel]

Hmmm.. For the first time I got the blue screen of death. I was playing WoW and I got the blue screen saying
Hardware Malfunction
NMI: Parity check / Parity check error

Now I'm really concerned... What should I do?

[Gamerz2006]

Try this thread mate <EDIT>

[evilfantasy]

Originally Posted by Gamerz2006 Try this thread mate <EDIT>

What purpose was that link for? It was to another forum with a similar problem and no resolve.

[Gamerz2006]

I do apologise, i didnt read the whole Thread. i was trying to help.....guess if you do mess up (only human) u get moaned at by a mod. i understand.

PS. I said TRY this thread, not this is the answer to all your problems!

[Gamerz2006]

In the link i provided there is this.

Q u o t e:
Actually, ignore my previous email. As of 2.3, my wow just BSOD crashes or hangs every 5mins and I cant seem to do anything about it......

So after twinking around for a bit, I think I found that turning the in-game resolution all the way down helps to prevent the BSOD and system lock ups. My alienware laptop is a 17in monitor with 1440x900 native resolution. Currently, I am running wow in window mode at 1280x720.



IT may NOT help, but how do WE know until the member TRIES IT????

[Carbon]

Not drivers, not overheating -> defective GPU.