My setup (4 years old now):
HP Pavillion Elite HPE-170t
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-860 quad-core processor [2.8GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache]
- 8GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM
- 1TB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive
- 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 [2 DVI, HDMI and VGA adapters]
- Lightscribe SuperMulti DVD burner
- 15-in-1 memory card reader, 1 USB, 1394, audio
- No TV Tuner
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
Starting the other day, I am getting strange screen artifacts. Sometimes i will have horizontal lines, sometimes vertical bars, sometimes strange checkerboard pink squares (that will disappear sometimes when I use my mouse scroll wheel).
I have updated all drivers, started in Safe mode, went back a few weeks on recovery - and rebooted a lot. Sometimes the errors are fixed, sometimes not. I also cleaned out all dust from inside. Temps here are pretty much the same everyday also.
I guess the video card is going bad, but I'm hoping there may be an easy fix i have overlooked. If not, I will need reccomendations for a new video card.
Thanks!