PLEASE HELP!!!!! i'm desperate!! Video card Problems!!

[Tha_Native]

I need some expert opinions and I know there are alot of peeps here with much experience, so i'd appreciate the help.

Here's the deal, Quick system specs: AMD Athlox XP 2000+
215MB 333Mhz DDR RAM
40GB 7200RPM Maxtor HD
ATI Radeon 5900 NON-PRO
Asus A7V8X-X Motherboard
Windows XP PRO.

Now, my problem is, I need to know if my graphics card is dyng on me. BTW, the system is only 3 weeks old, the graphics card is about 2 months old. anyway, what happend was, I installed Powerstrip and Riva Tuner to test witch program overclocks better. when I was using Riva Tuner, everything was running fine (Playing Unreal II for about 2 weeks), never even a hiccup. then, I used Powerstrip, and overclocked my card the same way as with Riva Tuner (between 300-305Mhz core, 285-295 Memory).

Then as soon as I started to play Unreal II, I noticed alot of atifacting, so I figured my card was just clocked too high. So I rebooted and tried the game again @ stock speeds, and the artifacting is still there. I even ran the basic "3D Pipes" screen saver and artifacts apear there as well, tho not in as great a number as within the game. Now, when I exit the game and return to windows, everything is fine. I don't see any artifacting.

Is this because my card is on the VERGE of dying?? Did I almost FRY my card?? Or is it some driver problem?? (FYI I did some driver tweaking with powerstrip before running the game). I havent installed the latest drivers YET, I plan on doing so as soon as possible. I'm going mental, I love this card and was looking to playing HL-2 when it ships.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated,
thanks in advance!

[alex zorrilla]

ATI Radeon 5900? Do you mean ATI Radeon 9500?

My first guess would be that you have a software problem. You tweaked something too far and now can't find what it was. If the tweaking programs have a "remove all tweaks" feature, try that and reboot. If that doesn't help, try removing the graphics drivers and any associated utilities, reboot, and reinstall the drivers.

--Alex

[Tha_Native]

Hey thanx for the reply!
It was infact a software issue, I uninstalled all tweaking apps, then uninstalled the drivers, and re-installed. everything worked out great!! it's rockin' and rollin' again.

And again, thnx for your reply and help. I'll be sure to come back here again if something else happens!
Chiao