9800 Pro: Vertical Bars on Screen

Well it looks like my 9800 Pro 128 is going back to ATI. This will be my
2nd bad 9800 Pro.
Before I send it back, is their anything I can look for or do to repair this
myself?

You can see a pic at http://tinyurl.com/brx9y

RT

A long shot, but it looks like that you may have files from an old
driver being used with a later driver. Since having 2 bad boards is
rare, you might try uninstalling all of the ATI Catalyst and driver
software, then do a registry search to find any remnants and delete
them. Reinstall with Catalyst 5.4. I have found sometime that you
have to re-install just the driver, over the new driver, using the
Catalyst setup (not the driver setup) to get the Windows settings to
come back (no clue why this works).
I know that removing the driver trashes your desktop unless you can
save it. I use a freeware prog: Icon_Save, to save my desktop before
removing video drivers.
Good Luck!
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"IMA" wrote in message
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Well it looks like my 9800 Pro 128 is going back to ATI. This
will be my 2nd bad 9800 Pro.
Before I send it back, is their anything I can look for or do to
repair this myself?

You can see a pic at http://tinyurl.com/brx9y

RT

I should of mentioned all was well until I turned the computer on this
morning. I have to other OS's all they all exhibit the same problem so
probably not a driver problem.

Tomorrow I'll take the vid board to work and try it there.


"glamart" wrote in message
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A long shot, but it looks like that you may have files from an old driver
being used with a later driver. Since having 2 bad boards is rare, you
might try uninstalling all of the ATI Catalyst and driver software, then do
a registry search to find any remnants and delete them. Reinstall with
Catalyst 5.4. I have found sometime that you have to re-install just the
driver, over the new driver, using the Catalyst setup (not the driver
setup) to get the Windows settings to come back (no clue why this works).
I know that removing the driver trashes your desktop unless you can save
it. I use a freeware prog: Icon_Save, to save my desktop before removing
video drivers.
Good Luck!
--

"IMA" wrote in message
...
Well it looks like my 9800 Pro 128 is going back to ATI. This will be
my 2nd bad 9800 Pro.
Before I send it back, is their anything I can look for or do to repair
this myself?

You can see a pic at http://tinyurl.com/brx9y

RT

Taking a moment's reflection, Advanced Primate mused:
|
| I should of mentioned all was well until I turned the computer on this
| morning. I have to other OS's all they all exhibit the same problem
| so probably not a driver problem.

Looks like an issue with the card's RAM ...

"mhicaoidh" wrote in message
news:Y2Kfe.65423$NU4.47869@attbi_s22...
Taking a moment's reflection, Advanced Primate mused:
|
| I should of mentioned all was well until I turned the computer on this
| morning. I have to other OS's all they all exhibit the same problem
| so probably not a driver problem.

Looks like an issue with the card's RAM ...

Check out my post from about a month back - Red vertical lines on 9700 pro,
and X-posted to a UK group:
http://tinyurl.com/9rb2v

I thought I'd sorted mine by adding some more thermal paste but after a week
it'd gone back to teh same problems I think you are experiencing... So I've
put it down to a heat problem and am currently using an older ATI card (a
7200 VIVO, so no danger of that getting too hot!) I bought it second hand
(well, refurbished) and the RTB warrantee has run out so the vendor isn't
interested. Because it's been refurbished though i doubt the manufacturer
(Hercules) will help either... They did, however, tell me that an Arctic
Cooling VGA cooler would fit their boards, so maybe they would take it back
as faulty...

Check out my screenshots and see if that's the same thing that is happening
to you anyway, something dodgy must be going on with all these ATI cards...

~A~

"~Alex~" wrote in message
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"mhicaoidh" wrote in message
news:Y2Kfe.65423$NU4.47869@attbi_s22...
Taking a moment's reflection, Advanced Primate mused:
|
| I should of mentioned all was well until I turned the computer on this
| morning. I have to other OS's all they all exhibit the same problem
| so probably not a driver problem.

Looks like an issue with the card's RAM ...

Check out my post from about a month back - Red vertical lines on 9700
pro,
and X-posted to a UK group:
http://tinyurl.com/9rb2v

I thought I'd sorted mine by adding some more thermal paste but after a
week
it'd gone back to teh same problems I think you are experiencing... So
I've
put it down to a heat problem and am currently using an older ATI card (a
7200 VIVO, so no danger of that getting too hot!) I bought it second hand
(well, refurbished) and the RTB warrantee has run out so the vendor isn't
interested. Because it's been refurbished though i doubt the manufacturer
(Hercules) will help either... They did, however, tell me that an Arctic
Cooling VGA cooler would fit their boards, so maybe they would take it
back
as faulty...

Check out my screenshots and see if that's the same thing that is
happening
to you anyway, something dodgy must be going on with all these ATI
cards...

~A~

This only gets better. I took the card to work and installed it. First it
worked the same as home, with very similar vertical bars and artificts.
After 5 minutes it's back to normal. Another 5 minutes go buy and it starts
all over again.

So I'm guessing heat issue, it's air conditioned here at work. I have an
Artic Cooler which I should try on card. Perhaps the fan is bad or not
spinning fast enough.

| I should of mentioned all was well until I turned the computer on this
| morning. I have to other OS's all they all exhibit the same problem
| so probably not a driver problem.

Looks like an issue with the card's RAM ...

Check out my post from about a month back - Red vertical lines on 9700
pro,
and X-posted to a UK group:
http://tinyurl.com/9rb2v

I thought I'd sorted mine by adding some more thermal paste but after a
week
it'd gone back to teh same problems I think you are experiencing... So
I've
put it down to a heat problem and am currently using an older ATI card (a
7200 VIVO, so no danger of that getting too hot!) I bought it second hand
(well, refurbished) and the RTB warrantee has run out so the vendor isn't
interested. Because it's been refurbished though i doubt the manufacturer
(Hercules) will help either... They did, however, tell me that an Arctic
Cooling VGA cooler would fit their boards, so maybe they would take it
back
as faulty...

Check out my screenshots and see if that's the same thing that is
happening
to you anyway, something dodgy must be going on with all these ATI
cards...

~A~

This only gets better. I took the card to work and installed it. First it
worked the same as home, with very similar vertical bars and artificts.
After 5 minutes it's back to normal. Another 5 minutes go buy and it starts
all over again.

So I'm guessing heat issue, it's air conditioned here at work. I have an
Artic Cooler which I should try on card. Perhaps the fan is bad or not
spinning fast enough.

It sounds like a defective card if it shows the same symptoms on multiple
systems,
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kirjoitti viestissä
...
| I should of mentioned all was well until I turned the computer on
this
| morning. I have to other OS's all they all exhibit the same
problem
| so probably not a driver problem.

Looks like an issue with the card's RAM ...

Check out my post from about a month back - Red vertical lines on 9700
pro,
and X-posted to a UK group:
http://tinyurl.com/9rb2v

I thought I'd sorted mine by adding some more thermal paste but after
a
week
it'd gone back to teh same problems I think you are experiencing...
So
I've
put it down to a heat problem and am currently using an older ATI card
(a
7200 VIVO, so no danger of that getting too hot!) I bought it second
hand
(well, refurbished) and the RTB warrantee has run out so the vendor
isn't
interested. Because it's been refurbished though i doubt the
manufacturer
(Hercules) will help either... They did, however, tell me that an
Arctic
Cooling VGA cooler would fit their boards, so maybe they would take it
back
as faulty...

Check out my screenshots and see if that's the same thing that is
happening
to you anyway, something dodgy must be going on with all these ATI
cards...

~A~

This only gets better. I took the card to work and installed it. First
it
worked the same as home, with very similar vertical bars and artificts.
After 5 minutes it's back to normal. Another 5 minutes go buy and it
starts
all over again.

So I'm guessing heat issue, it's air conditioned here at work. I have
an
Artic Cooler which I should try on card. Perhaps the fan is bad or not
spinning fast enough.

It sounds like a defective card if it shows the same symptoms on multiple
systems,

How about RF disturbance by the card fan? Well, the Arctic Cooler would fix
that one, too.

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