My screen goes messed up randomly every now and then, and i think it's the graphics card, i've got a radeon 9800 pro, but also my hard drives makes loub squeeking and clicking noises sometimes when i run things like virus scanners and the the screen goes totally messed up and i'm wondering if it could be that, i've included a screen shot to show

can anybody help

Man

Look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id especially of errors that seem to coincide with this madness.

Also view your Error Log via:
[1] Start Menu
[2] Help and Support
[3] Pick a Task
[4] Tools
[5] Advanced System Information
[6] View the Error Log

theres no errors in application or system event viewer, just normal events and there nothing in the error log either

As to the hard drive I would try your manufacturers diagnostic. Here is a list:

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

Do you have the latest drivers for your graphics card?

I would get them & then follow this proceedure:


Boot the computer to Safe Mode options (F8 after BIOS) & choose:
"Enable VGA Mode".
Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs.
Find your graphics card driver package & uninstall.
While in Control Panel, go to System, Hardware, Device Manager.
Expand (Click +) besides Display Adapter,
Right Click your graphics card, Choose Properties, Drivers, uninstall.
Reboot the Machine - It will re-detect your graphics card.
Then re-install the drivers.

Hope this helps.

Sorted it, the dam thing was over heating, didn't notice the weather getting hotter here in the UK, all i had to do was turn my fan speed up

Hmmmmm.... melting desktop Glad u got it sorted. Let us know if we can help further in the future

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