Pc yellow artifacts

[kaluman]

Please help me,

I bought second hand graphic card, (nvidia geforce XFX 210)

installed it,

and after I turned on my pc, bios showed somethind (like-commas-triangles) all ower the screen.

Then windows came up,

all over the screen (desktop) were some yellow lines in symetric-squares.

I tried to uninstall old drivers (nvidia geforce 7300gt), and install new ones (for 210).

Thing went even worse, everything bugged.

(In one moment I noticed my fan (cooler) from my power supply is going slow (rotating very slowly),

I turned of my computer,

putted back my old graphic card and reroled my drivers,

everything was like it was before,

good.

But, I still want that 210 to use, so I am asking for your professional help.

Thank you.

[Dalo Harkin]

Hi,

 

Try cleaning the slot and the contacts on the bottom of the GPU, with a soft paint brush

 

Also clean the fan on the card as best you can.

 

Artifacts on the screen are normally due to the RAM on the GPU being too hot, but as this happens straight away I doubt its that...

 

Make sure that if you have onboard GPU that you disable it in the BIOS.

 

Insert the new card and then, go to the Nvidia site and re download the correct drivers, remember that you need the EXACT drivers for your card and the OS (both version and 32 or 64 bit)

Then go to add/remove programs in control panel and remove the old display driver, DONT restart, got to C:/Nvidia and DELETE any folders within that then restart, then install the new drivers, then restart - all 'should' be ok then unless there is an issue with the card itself which will be apparent after you have cleaned it all up :)