Originally posted by LePaul
Kicked on the game PC Friday evening and had stripes and checker patterns on the screen. I thought the fan on my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro had failed. Nope, its clean and working...ran some diagnostics from some burn in programs I have, plus others I downloaded. Video Ram is corrupted and failing.
Me thinks the card is pooched. Im doomed to "Solitaire" on the laptop til payday.
Anyone else ever have a Radeon do this? I cant find much on the ATI site to address this. Or should i just yank it out and thank it for the 2 years of gaming it gave me? LOL
I had a Radeon 9800 Pro that had a similar death. Apparently the fan quit working on it at some point in time. I would get blue screens with the error pointing to an ATI file.
So, I reinstalled the drivers and it seemed to fix the problem. But, one day I opened my case to put a new sound card in and found my video card fan laying on the bottom of the case. So only thing I could figure was when the fan quit working it got so hot, that it melted the plastic piece of thing that holds in.
You should remember Paul, I described similar artifacts playing Joint Ops with you one night.

p.s. I went Nvidia after that.