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Try turning up the I/O voltage of the motherboard in the BIOS by a small amount.

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Make sure that you are using a powerful enough power supply. See the 'How powerful should my power

supply be in order to use the GeForce? question for more information.

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If you are using more than one stick of memory, try taking out all but one of the memory sticks and see if

that helps. If it does, you need a more powerful power supply: see the 'How powerful should my power

supply be in order to use the GeForce?' question for more information.

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Try using the Detonator 2 (5.xx) series of drivers.

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Try switching on AGP Turbo, turning up the bus speed, or setting your AGP ratio to 1:1, (in that order) -

this will put extra strain on the card, but it seems to fix the problem for some people.

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After trying the above, try turning up the bus speed above 100

and

setting the AGP ratio to 1:1.

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Try forcing AGP1X. Read the 'How can I force AGP1X to be used instead of AGP2X or AGP4X?'

question for more information.

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Try turning down the AGP Aperture to 16 or below, if your motherboard supports it - see the 'How can I

change my AGP Aperture size?' question. This will disable AGP, but may fix your problem. You can

also use DXDiag to disable AGP.

Note that this problem is closely related to the locking up problem

- you may also want to try reading the 'My

GeForce keeps on locking up or drops me back to the desktop during 3D applications. How can I fix it?'

question for more hints. Let me know if any of the hints in the lockup question help with flashing textures and

are not already mentioned here, so that I can copy them over.

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Q. I get texture bleeding, small flashing triangles or corrupted textures. How can I fix it?

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Try changing your AGP Aperture to another value (keep it above 16 as setting it at or below 16 will

disable AGP) - see the 'How can I change my AGP Aperture size?' question.

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If you are getting texture psoblems in Quake 3 Arena, try reading the 'The sky looks blocky and textures

have strange colours in Quake 3 Arena with the latest drivers installed. How can I fix this?' question.'

question.

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If you have a RealMagic Hollywood Plus or another DVD decoder card, try taking it out and seeing if

that helps. An motherboard that supports ATA66 may also cause these problems in some cases. If this

does seem to be the problem, take the DVD card out immediately because some people appear to have

actually had their GeForce damaged somehow.

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Try reflashing the video card's BIOS with the BIOS supplied from the CD by copying the BIOS files to

your hard drive, rebooting, pressing F8 on the Starting Windows 9x/ME screen and selecting 'Safe Mode

Command Prompt' and then running the utility. The version is the same as the version currently on your

card but it may fix the problem.

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Q. I get dots all over the screen in some programs. How can I fix it?

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In 2D programs, this may be caused by the Detonator 3 (6.xx) driver sets. Try reverting to the Detonator

2 (5.xx) driver sets.

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In 3D games, these are polygon junctions. You should only be worried if these occur without

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