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Radeon 9700Pro artifacts
My 9700pro (Gigabyte Maya II GV-9700pro) has started displaying
artifacts on most heavy duty games. Not sure whether it's the latest drivers of something more fundamental. DXDiag reports no problems and lesser demanding apps don't seem to have a problem. 3dmark does seem to display the problems however. (lots of triangles, then flashing bit grids.) It's been working fine for around 18months. Is there a more sophisticated diagnostic tool available to check for dodgy video memory etc. |
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might be heat related as your card begins to stress under graphics demands. Had a similar problem...refitted my 9700 pro with an Artic cooler ($20) instead of the oem fan/sink(took about 10 minutes!)...all returned to normal. Had it about 20 months now system= (ATI 9700 pro + athlon 64 3200+ MSI board 1 gig pc3500 ram etc. XP Pro....+4 case cooling fans. case temp is about 29c and cpu temp is about 42c under load (nothing is overclocked!) Summer is also upon us...do you have adequate cooling in your case...are you overclocked? Never liked the oem fan/shim arrangement anyway,,,have you checked the oem fan operation and cleaned it and the system itself (dirt causes heat!)..is there an unusual noise coming from the 9700 fan (bearing failure?) Also check out your power supply to make sure the card has proper power! The 9700 sucks alot of juice and produces alot of heat when under stress! Of course there are other possibilities. On 28 May 2004 16:59:31 -0700, (Dale Walker) wrote: My 9700pro (Gigabyte Maya II GV-9700pro) has started displaying artifacts on most heavy duty games. Not sure whether it's the latest drivers of something more fundamental. DXDiag reports no problems and lesser demanding apps don't seem to have a problem. 3dmark does seem to display the problems however. (lots of triangles, then flashing bit grids.) It's been working fine for around 18months. Is there a more sophisticated diagnostic tool available to check for dodgy video memory etc. |
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clean all the dust out of your sys after 18 months i bet the fans are cloged
up. that may help but but also try going back one version of the driver. im not runing 4.5 now due to same problem. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com "Dale Walker" wrote in message om... My 9700pro (Gigabyte Maya II GV-9700pro) has started displaying artifacts on most heavy duty games. Not sure whether it's the latest drivers of something more fundamental. DXDiag reports no problems and lesser demanding apps don't seem to have a problem. 3dmark does seem to display the problems however. (lots of triangles, then flashing bit grids.) It's been working fine for around 18months. Is there a more sophisticated diagnostic tool available to check for dodgy video memory etc. |
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Heywood wrote in message
... might be heat related as your card begins to stress under graphics demands. Had a similar problem...refitted my 9700 pro with an Artic cooler ($20) instead of the oem fan/sink(took about 10 minutes!)...all returned to normal. Had it about 20 months now That is interesting... just roll back the driver before taking a move like this one. Who did ya buy the cooler from? |
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Bought it ffom svc.com http://svc.com/cardcooler.html look at the bottom...they had very good service too! jeff Heywood wrote in message .. . might be heat related as your card begins to stress under graphics demands. Had a similar problem...refitted my 9700 pro with an Artic cooler ($20) instead of the oem fan/sink(took about 10 minutes!)...all returned to normal. Had it about 20 months now That is interesting... just roll back the driver before taking a move like this one. Who did ya buy the cooler from? |
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