I'm not sure what happened, but when I turned my computer on after having it turned off for about a week everything is messed up with my graphics card. When I first start Windows the screen has dots all over it. Once I am at the desktop everything looks fine. I then decided to run FSX and I get a message about my graphics card not being compatible with FSX. I then tried to run FS9 and got messages about how direct3D was not working and running FS9 might lock my computer up. I ran FS9 anyway and in the display hardware menu it is blank. The image when running FS9 is really bad. I have tried uninstalling the graphics card and reinstalling it and I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, but nothing has worked. Could it be that my card has finally died? I also noticed that if I scroll on a web page the movement is no longer smooth.ThanksReganhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/181248.jpghttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/181249.jpg

Hi Regan, Are you sure someone didnt swap out your video card while you were away for a week? Lol just kidding. That is weird, since you have done all that troubleshooting it is highly likely that it was just your video card's turn to bite the dust. FS9 was the first thing that began to have lower quality when my old video card started to crap out. Maybe someone else on here would have some better reccomendations, if not then you might be in the market for a new video card. Regards,Jason

Thanks Jason. I'm sure nobody replaced my graphics card. I figure its about time to upgrade to a better card anyway. I hope my B-day and Christmas brings a few dollars to go towards a new card.

Can anyone else offer any help on this matter. I am starting to think it might be a connection issue between the card and the board, but I don't know how I would go about fixing this.

When I first start Windows the screen has dots all over it.This doesn't sound good. Your VC may have lived it's useful life. Often when a system shows that it no longer has 3D capability it is a driver issue. Specifically, the MB's chipset drivers. You can try this routine... install the chipset drivers, then reboot. Install the latest DX9 upgrade, then reboot. Install the video card drivers, then reboot.Good luck, and don't get your hopes up that a driver reinstall will solve your problem. The dots at start-up issue...

This is what I mean by dots. If you look at the blue Dell letters you can see the little black dots.http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e267/Reg...urrent=dots.flv

Remove and then reload/re-install your driver suite. A main-line voltage spike could have corrupted your drivers.A thought....Mitch

Thanks Mitch, but I have removed all of the drivers and re installed them to no avail.

Hi,Try this: Open up your pc and remove your video card and put it back in again and check that the power cable is connected ok. And you might use compressed air to get rid of all dust at the same time.If you still have the same problem: Is this cause by a faulty video card or by a fault mobo? If possible I'd recommend you to try to install the card on another computer. If the card work ok, the problem might be your mobo.Hope you get your issue solved!Ulf B

That's not a driver issue; video drivers don't even come into play until the OS loads.I had that once on a new X850XT that was defective. A grid of small rectangles across the BIOS boot screen.Remove, blow out the dust from the AGP slot and re-install the card but I seriously doubt you're gonna see anything different.The card was off for a week, cooled down and maybe an internal electrical connection contracted just enough to snap. Who knows.

Do you think it would be something on the card that snapped or something on the MB?

Generally video glitches like that are confined to the video card. That's been my experience building (and sometimes destroying) computer components for the last 30 years.Does your motherboard have an onboard VGA 15-pin video connector? If yes, test it to be sure it works. If yes then it's definitely your video card.

Well it turned out to be the card. I put a really old GeForce2 I found in the garage in and now everything works fine. I wont be able to do any gaming, but at least It will get me by until I can decide on a new replacement card.