Chuck

Still seem to have the problem, here a some screen shots and the desktop goes like that after the coruption, and how could I test my video card ram?

Wow, just did a defrag that windows said it didn't need and the checkered coruption has gone. For now anyway, and if it happens again I'll be back. Sorry for waisting anyones time. I'm using the omega drivers as I find better rusults than others for now anyway.

I have a asus 9800xt with 256 ram and I've just started experienceing the checkered lacall curruption too. Tried different drivers and it seemed to happen after I installled the latest ati drivers but since that I have tried omega and other ati drivers with no luck. Are there any programs out there that check your graficss ram for errors? And can anyone help with this problem. I have to OS on same HD and have for some years now with no problems before and on the OS with half life 2 it works fine most of the time although now and again I get a different type of curuption like images wipeing the screen when looking around that bad that u have no visibility but I don't get the local checkered curruption but on this OS its the oppisite. GPU temps range from 45 to 55 so do u think it could be heat rellated? but I just gave it a good clean and didn't have the problems before. Sorry about my english as I'm a boiler maker with limited IT experiance. Any help would be much appreciated as I payed $850 Aussie for this card and wouldn't mind getting a bit more good use out of it. Problem started ever since I put asus drivers on which were spose to give it a boost from standard ati drivers. Cheers Chuck