About a week ago when I first installed Guild Wars, the graphics started going crazy, there was static everywhere messing up the whole screen. And now when I try to play World of Warcraft which used to work perfect about 2 months ago on my system: Pentium 4 3.0GHz Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb 2x 512 DDR 3200 Asus P5P800 Motherboard My first thougt was that the video card is fried so I went and got my friend's video card, which is also a 9800 Pro and his game works fine on pretty much the same computer, anyways I put that card into my machine, same problem. If not the card could it be a heat issue? Today I bought a can of air and cleaned out the graphics card heatsink and took the heatsink off the processor and cleaned that out too. Still same problem, and everytime I restart the computer it seems to get worse. I downloaded Ati Tray Tools and ran the Artifact Tester, it went berserk, not only did the 3d render window mess up but my whole desktop was completely distorted with static. I'm thinking of buying some of the thermal paste to put on the cpu, because it's still running with the one that came when i got it. Oh I also completely reformatted every hard drive, ran check disk and scandisk on both HDs and reinstalled windows, I was hopping that it was just a virus or something, but unfortunatelly no. Another weird thing sometimes when I play Swat 4 if I restart the mission a couple times the graphical distortions go away, like the games plays almost perfectly fine if I keep restarting the mission and letting it load. Same with guild wars, World of Warcraft unfortunatelly goes into the logon screen usually freezes after about 10 seconds and the sound starts looping then after another 10 seconds it comes back to life still with the distortions and then after another 10-15 seconds the whole computer completelly freezes. Thanks in advance for any help/hints I could get.
Update: In the ATi Tray tools I went into Hardware and Overclocking Settings and lowered the Core Speed and Memory Speed, now when I ran World of Warcraft the game did not freeze in the logon screen i only tested it for about 30 seconds though, anyways the moving static was pretty much gone just a tiny bit of it, but the whole 3d image was completely distorted like the polygons were going everywhere, but like i said it didn't freeze up...maybe it is heat? I have no idea anymore.
Well after thinking a little, and snooping around Dos, i found out that one of the power things the one exerting 3.3V was only giving out 2.8 and so the power supply was the issue, i have replaced it and now it's working fine.
