Hey guys, bit of an odd one here, I expect that someone has seen this before.... I hope :confused: Firstly, my card is an XFX 6800GT, running on an ASUS A8V Deluxe mobo with Win XP Pro. I have a very odd display problem, which I 'think' is caused by something wrong on my cards BIOS, possibly. Please see the screen dump: http://files.photojerk.com/hawkinsa21/untitled.JPG (had to upload but not as a JPEG so you'll need to choose to open as a piccy) Problem: The mouse paints over the XP desktop with a nasty kind of artefact, which doesn't disappear, rather gets worse i.e. I could paint out the whole of my screen like this. Active windows within XP open fine, and all icons within opened windows, e.g control panel, all display fine, until I move the window around the screen, at which point the window becomes a huge paint brush and does the same thing that the mouse does. 1. This has happened before, but went away after powering right off and leaving for 5 minutes before trying again. This hasn't worked this time. 2. This isn't driver related.... I have uninstalled all drivers for the card and used a driver cleaner to remove all Nvidia drivers and components. Rebooted etc and installed new drivers (not beta if your wondering), and still no joy. 3. I have adjusted all aspects of my display, i.e. resolution and colours, no change here. 4. I have gone as far as a clean install of Windows XP and there is still issues, so this has pointed to a problem on the card. I don't have a spare card to test either, but the fact that the problem has happened before in exactly the same way but disappeared, made me skeptical that it was a physical fault on the card, as this would surely have stayed apparent and not gone away. I have been playing Farcry and CS absolutely fine today as well, and this has litterally only started happening this afternoon, and I've done the install of XP since then. I don't overclock my card stupidly, I always (if I overclock at all) let the Nvidia oc utility find the best score, then drop it manually by at least 20MHz on the GPU and .02 on the memory, i.e. 1.08 I'd drop to 1.06 etc. Any ideas would be great, I may need to flash the XFX bios if its somehow been corrupt... I know the software to do it with, but don't have any other XFX bios's for this card other than the one it came with. I am positive that the card hasn't been fried, although if no-one can help, then I'll have to accept that the card may be damaged, but I've had it for a year now with no problems, and again, never overclock it stupidly at all. Thanks guys, sorry for the long post but trying to be accurate and detailed! Nice one, Alex

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Thanks mate, forgot to say that I've checked this out. I've installed it on my brothers machine and it works fine, so either its a problem bound to my ASUS mobo, possibly the AGP drivers, or it just needed to be taken out and aired!! lol I'll let you know what happens. Thanks Hydrod

I've just got home, and reinstalled my graphics card, and the thing is working hard as a tiawanese 6 yr old in a sweat shop!! I don't have a CLUE what has done this, but taking it out, blowing a bit of dust out and letting some good old English 'cold ass' weather get to it has done the trick..... Lets see how long this lasts though.... this has happened before but was fixed with a cold reboot. Thanks to everyone who's posted here, I'll keep you posted.... ! Happy me again.....!

forgot to say,I tested in my bro's pc and it worked fine,so took it home and now its all sweet again. Wonder how long for??? lol Thanks again