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    Having Artifacts Issues.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by hyelton, Mar 5, 2014.

  1. hyelton

    hyelton Notebook Consultant

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    So I had a better power supply that was giving to me for my friends build I made. Well Anyways The PSU sparked when plugged in. Well Caused some issue where the motherboard had NO power at all. I pulled the BIOS battery for a few min and BAM everything booted up, But now there are Artifacts on BOTH Internal Graphics and on the GTX-650 TI but when I put the 650 Ti in my computer no Artifacts so I`m guessing I`m gonna have to buy a new MB for that computer? What would cause that ? Cause I mean everything works Fine! except for that issue.

    Thanks for any input. I`m just confused I got everything working but both the internal and GTX-650 Ti have Artifacts.
     
    hyelton, Mar 5, 2014
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  2. mattcheau

    mattcheau Notebook Deity

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    you're right about probably having to replace the board. it sounds like you shorted/fried circuits belonging to the integrated VGA. lucky that you apparently didn't damage the card itself (or anything else for that matter).

    this thread really belongs in a desktop forum by the way.
     
    mattcheau, Mar 5, 2014
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