Screen goes nutz!

[Tweakster]

I know some of you have experienced this before and I was hopping to find a solution.

About 5 minutes into a D3D game (any game).. My screen goes crazy and turns into millions of colored pixals. The mouse pointer turns into a big square and I can still move it around. At this point the system need a hard reboot... Any ideas???


SPECS
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ASUS K7V with latest VIA drivers..
G400maxDH 6.01 driver
Athlon 800 OC'ed to 840 mHz
256 133ram (MemoryMan)
internal zip 100
Diamond supra express ex. modem
Yamaha 8/4/24 CD writer
Pioneer 115 DVD
Maxtor 27gig UMDA 66 primary
IBM 11gig UMDA 66 secondary
Diamond MX400 sound card
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Jack...

[Arsa]

What version of BIOS do you use?
You definitly should update it if you didn't.

[Rik]

I get this too if I clock my G400 a few mhz too high, mostly in Quake III. It looks like it's playing 'mix and match' with the textures. It looks quite trippy, and not altogether too unpleasant!

[Joel]

Add some more cooling. Sounds like a heat related problem.

Joel

I just noticed something else. You are OCing your CPU to 840. Are you doing this through the FSB? if so try clocking it back down to default settings and see if you still have the same problems. If so then it maybe related to what I stated in the first place.

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 30 August 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 30 August 2000).]

[Admiral]

I get the million pixels when the memory on my vanilla is clocked too high or if I try to run 2xAGP on a BX mobo when the AGP bus is doing 89 or more.
I get the broken glass effect when the core is clocked too high.