God what did I break now?

[p8ntslinger676]

Well earlier you said it was working fine until you tried to overclock it so if i were you, i would go back into the bios and reset them cus that might be a problem, thats my two cents.

PS if you get in working order, dont screw with it any more cus it seems like you are kind of clumbsy and confused about whats going on, so just stop once it works.

 

[SidVicious]

Are you getting those problems on a fresh OS install with updated drivers ?

 

[dizman]

Are you getting those problems on a fresh OS install with updated drivers ?

Yup, but it's oddly starting to go away sort of. OK the two games on the last mobo I was playing that worked fine were SW Battlefront 2 and SW Empire War (yea I dunno on a SW kick right now) and then I tried to OC the CPU knowing I was ditching the DFI mobo soon. Then I got those problems with half the screen or all of it being all scrambled, in EAW the whole menu was i couldn't see a thing on SWBF2 the menus were normal just in game was screwed up.

Ok so I get new Asus mobo and reformat, update drivers all that good stuff install SWBF2 and it still does it but this time the menus are glitching out a bit now. So I try the various test ppl have suggested here and decide to install EAW. Well that one runs fine now! in menus and in game, very weird. So I go back into SWBF2 and menus are still glitched but I go into the game and it seems to be working fine?

I'll have to try one card at a time and see what happens. I wouldn't think it would be power as it was working fine (as fine as that DFI could work) for several weeks.

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Can you download SiSoft SANDRA, make a full system report (.HTML or .TXT) then place it on personal webspace compressed (.ZIP, .RAR, .7z, etc).

Note: I am assuming everyone has personal webspace they can FTP files to, most Australian ISPs offer it.

It'll be 12 MB or so of text, but compresses down very well with WinRAR or 7-Zip.

If / When you run nVidia nTune does it report your PCI Express bus clock speed ? (setting to 2500 MHz may resolve the issue, if it isn't already, and barely affects performance).... bare in mind nTune can report the wrong clock speed for many things, eg: It can show RAM is at 400 when really at 366 or 333..... it is the dodgiest 'check' I've ever suggested someone perform. 🙁

Does setting PEG Link Mode to the minimum slowest setting improve it at all (it barely affects performance even on slowest).

I'd rather lose a fraction of a percent, or even 5-10%, of my performance to gain stability..... even when overclocking.

 

[dizman]

I think one thing getting confused here I only tried to OC the processor (CPU) not any of the videocards (GPU) but for some reason it seems to have affected the video cards, possibly damaged one. That's why/what I'm asking for help on, identifing the problem and what to do.

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Are you overclocking by raising the FSB ?, if so that will affect the chipset and thus everything connected to it.

Draw yourself a system map similar to:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/images/products/chipsets/k8-series/k8t900_blkdiagram.jpg

Write down the clock speeds, and bus widths of each link.

When raising the FSB find what else is changing.