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[Carmine_Paterno]

I booted into windows as usual, and then 5 minutes later i get lines all over and my computer shuts off. I tryed to turn it on again, and no boot nothing. I opened up my computer took out my Celeron II 700 and put my older Pentium III 450 in and worked fine, but still lines. My Celeron doesn't work anymore and the video has lines all over. Also when i opened up the case, i saw what looked like a fan hanging from a wire attached to the video card. I was told it was a "heatsink". Could that affect it?

Here are my system specifications :

Celeron II 700 (now Pentium III 450)
ABIT BF6 Motherboard (440BX)
MICRON 128MB PC133
ATI RADEON 32MB DDR
2 ---10 GB Western Digital Hard drives
36X Aopen CDrom
Lucent Technologies 56k modem
Ess AUDIODRIVE 1868 ISA

It definetly is not drivers because it does it when the computer starts up. To try to correct the problem, i went to radioshack and purchased 2 486 heatsinks and put them on the graphics chip and the ram. Still same problem. I went to a forum and i was recommended to do that.

I am quite upset, because i paid 200 dollars a couple months ago and now it suddenly does this?

I appreciate you looking at this very much. Thank you for your time.

[Tim-]

If I had to guess I would say that the ram on the video card has some bad sectors. They will display as lines, or non painted cells when the ram is mapped to the display.

[Carmine_Paterno]

I sent that to ATI do you think they will tell me to send it to them and give me a new one?

That letter is complete bull*hit. I overclocked that cark to 190 most of the time. Took off original heatsink first day i got it. All of the sudden tho, i get that line crap.

I hope they send me a new one, that would be nice!

[marty]

Only if they don't read this forum!!

Sorry, I like you Carmine, but you have to admit that we are all taking a few chances with all this fooling around.

My daughter a few weeks ago when I was pushing the PIII 700 over 933 said, "Dad, what it...?"

I relplied, "Yeah, I know I might fry the chip. But, if I do I get buy a faster one!"

So look on the bright side if you see it that way.

[Carmine_Paterno]

Yea, but i got no money.

If Ati says send it in, i will and see what they say.
Waiting for them to reply...Celeron II 700 @ 903 1.7v