Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

[redearedslider]

My mate's not good at explaning but here it goes : My mate gets occasional coloured flickers on his screen while playing battlefield, i dont know if his drivers are all updated but i want to know if it's overheating and he should do something .. SPECS :

PROCESSOR : unknown :P

ram: 1 gig

videocard : 6600 gt

cheers

[sackynut]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

well, does he A. have good vetnilation? B. Is he overclocking his video card at all?

C. is it like, a random like display of colors, somewhat related to the game, or is it something that could be moniter related. (that was a bad question, I couldnt think of how to word it)

[Talus]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

It sounds like it only happens when playing Battlefield from what I'm reading.

Has he tried changing refresh rates?
Has he tried degaussing?

[sackynut]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

I just suggested my things because, I overclocked my FSB yesterday over 1000mhz and my video a little more, and I started having werid artifacts in BF2. SO if he is OCing his video card OR his processer, that might be a problem, but from the way he described it, I couldnt tell if it was moniter or if it was video related.
also, if it IS moniter related, deguessing might help, but in any case the refresh rate wouldnt make a difference. if the rate is to high it wont transmit to the moniter, and it would go black, and if it was lower, you would just see horitzontal refresh lines when your FPS went over the refresh rate. and if it ONLY happpens during bf2, then it is not a moniter problem.

[redearedslider]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

thnx for your response, anyways he isnt overclocking or anything.. he cleaned his heatsink out.. that helped a bit he's having it less and they're flickers that are like square

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[Talus]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

LCD or CRT?

[redearedslider]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

he's got the big crt monitor

[Talus]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

Has he tried plugging in another monitor temporarily and seeing if the problem goes away?

[TGL|Badlizzard]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

I had that before, little squares all over my screen, but it was because I had oc'd my video card. Maybe he needs to update his video drivers?

[sackynut]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

I had that before, little squares all over my screen, but it was because I had oc'd my video card. Maybe he needs to update his video drivers?

yeah what drivers is he using?

[redearedslider]

Re: Coloured flickers on a mate's screen overheating ?

yeah what drivers is he using?

when i see him again i'll ask