Graphics glitching

**Mike the Metal Ed** · 12-07-2010, 08:53 AM

My dad uses my old PC (it was built in 2003) in the office where I work for his small business, recently the graphics have been glitching up seemingly at random.

It can be as "clear" as that, or be in the form of a "grid" of coloured blocks layering over the screen, or it can end up looking like the coloured bars on a Commdore 64 load screen.

I opened it up a couple of weeks ago and tried clearing some of the gunk out of the graphics card, although I'm well aware it may already have cooked itself or something due to my negligence, especially since I already had to replace the fan around three years ago, and it took me a while to notice it wasn't running.

Graphics card is a Radeon 9600 btw, and I'm assuming that the issue is with that, but I can't really afford to go buying a new one until I'm fairly certain the issue is that, so does anyone think there's anything else that can be causing it?

12-07-2010, 08:53 AM	#1
Mike the Metal Ed VALENT�A Posts: 11,988	Graphics glitching My dad uses my old PC (it was built in 2003) in the office where I work for his small business, recently the graphics have been glitching up seemingly at random. It can be as "clear" as that, or be in the form of a "grid" of coloured blocks layering over the screen, or it can end up looking like the coloured bars on a Commdore 64 load screen. I opened it up a couple of weeks ago and tried clearing some of the gunk out of the graphics card, although I'm well aware it may already have cooked itself or something due to my negligence, especially since I already had to replace the fan around three years ago, and it took me a while to notice it wasn't running. Graphics card is a Radeon 9600 btw, and I'm assuming that the issue is with that, but I can't really afford to go buying a new one until I'm fairly certain the issue is that, so does anyone think there's anything else that can be causing it? Last edited by Mike the Metal Ed; 12-07-2010 at 09:21 AM.