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ATI 9600Pro in a P4P800E Deluxe Help.
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I am hoping that someone can help. I am hainvg all sorts of Problems with my gfx card. It is a Link3D 9600Pro. I'll give a quick overview of what I am running in my box before I start: ASUS P4P800E Deluxe (BIOS 1002) with 3.2Ghz Prescott P4 1024Mb Corsair TwinX XMS RAM 36Gb Raptor, 80Gb Maxtor, 120Gb WD Link3D 9600Pro 19" LCD Screen Various CDR/DVD's, floppy etc WinXP SP2 (slipstreamed install) The problems are as follows 1) When I boot up, the ASUS logo and the WinXP have dashed lines running thru them from top to bottom of the screen with each set of lines being about 1.5 - 2 cm apart, all the way across the screen, once in windows things seem ok, i.e. no dashed lines. 2) When I ran UT2004, the Nvidia logo at the start was all crupted, and in the game there was a chequred pattern of horizontal lines over parts of the scenary. This chequred pattern also appeared in WWIII Black Gold, in the start up video and during game play as well. During playing old UT there were a large amout of artifacts, abit very small ones all over the place. 3) I am unable to load Halo due to Halo failing to start up Direct3D, and asking me to look at the DirectX setting in DXDIAG, all seemed fine, but when doing the Direct3D tests I got the chequred pattern on the spinning box that it displays. 4) Lots of driver issues. I have tried the latest Catalyst and Omega drivers. After restarting the machine the display goes crupt (large amounts of black, with the odd bit of a window here and there) after several restarts, all I get is a black screen as soon as I get past the WinXP screen. With the omega drivers I eventually ended up with a pink and blue screen, half of each I am now running with the drivers that came with XP SP2, which at least allow me to use the computer for work. I have also tried the display with my old CRT and still had the same problems, so it is not the monitor I can't think of anymore information to provide. Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions. TIA Rik |
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Hi
I am hoping that someone can help. I am having all sorts of Problems with my gfx card. It is a Link3D 9600Pro. I'll give a quick overview of what I am running in my box before I start: 1) When I boot up, the ASUS logo and the WinXP have dashed lines running thru them from top to bottom of the screen with each set of lines being about 1.5 - 2 cm apart, all the way across the screen, once in windows things seem ok, i.e. no dashed lines. [more picture corruption] Seems a hardware problem. Try locking down AGP speed in BIOS to some lower level than what you are running now. It fixed a similar problem I was having with an FX5900XT in an older motherboard that was supposed to be able to handle AGP 4x. After I locked it to 2x I had no problems anymore. The performance difference is neglectable anyway. Martin. |
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On 14-Sep-2004, wrote: In article , wrote: Hi I am hoping that someone can help. I am hainvg all sorts of Problems with my gfx card. It is a Link3D 9600Pro. I'll give a quick overview of what I am running in my box before I start: ASUS P4P800E Deluxe (BIOS 1002) with 3.2Ghz Prescott P4 1024Mb Corsair TwinX XMS RAM 36Gb Raptor, 80Gb Maxtor, 120Gb WD Link3D 9600Pro 19" LCD Screen Various CDR/DVD's, floppy etc WinXP SP2 (slipstreamed install) The problems are as follows 1) When I boot up, the ASUS logo and the WinXP have dashed lines running thru them from top to bottom of the screen with each set of lines being about 1.5 - 2 cm apart, all the way across the screen, once in windows things seem ok, i.e. no dashed lines. 2) When I ran UT2004, the Nvidia logo at the start was all crupted, and in the game there was a chequred pattern of horizontal lines over parts of the scenary. This chequred pattern also appeared in WWIII Black Gold, in the start up video and during game play as well. During playing old UT there were a large amout of artifacts, abit very small ones all over the place. 3) I am unable to load Halo due to Halo failing to start up Direct3D, and asking me to look at the DirectX setting in DXDIAG, all seemed fine, but when doing the Direct3D tests I got the chequred pattern on the spinning box that it displays. 4) Lots of driver issues. I have tried the latest Catalyst and Omega drivers. After restarting the machine the display goes crupt (large amounts of black, with the odd bit of a window here and there) after several restarts, all I get is a black screen as soon as I get past the WinXP screen. With the omega drivers I eventually ended up with a pink and blue screen, half of each I am now running with the drivers that came with XP SP2, which at least allow me to use the computer for work. I have also tried the display with my old CRT and still had the same problems, so it is not the monitor I can't think of anymore information to provide. Does anyone have any ideas, suggestions. TIA Rik Things to check: 1) P4P800 family can have issue with video artifacts - when overclocking the FSB. Mainly a problem when ram is in 1:1 ratio, and CPU clock is 250MHz or so (nominal is 200MHz for FSB800). Problem is largely solved by running the CPU:RAM ratio at 5:4, or by going back to nominal CPU clock. 2) There are no details on your power supply. In any case, enter the BIOS power monitor page and check the voltages. A video card can become annoyed if +3.3V is on the low side, and sometimes artifacts can be cured by increasing Vagp. 3) Assuming no progress at this point, time to feel the heatsink on the video card while the computer is running. If the heatsink is cold to the touch, that implies the heatsink isn't touching the GPU on the video card. Some video cards come with software to monitor the GPU temperature, and that would be a good tool to use to check for the GPU overheating. The RAM on a video card can also overheat, but generally that requires some overclocking or volt-modding the video card RAMs. (You might also check that the video card cooling fan is running, as many of these are cheap sleeve bearing fans that can die in a matter of days.) 4) If still no progress, I'd pop the video card into another computer, and see if the symptoms persist. If they do, look into a warranty claim (RMA) on the video card. 5) The motherboard can also contribute to this problem, but to prove it, you'll need to try some other video cards in it, and if they all don't work properly, it could be one of the voltage regulating circuits on the motherboard is bad, or it could be the Northbridge AGP interface is fried. HTH, Paul Thanx Paul I shall try these ideas this evening, or the ones that I can try. I am not doing any form of over clocking and left the bios pretty much as it was when I got it, but I shall check, just in case. The 3.3V supply reports as 3.408V using ASUSProbe, and the fan on the card is running. I just ripped the back off to have a look. I'll dig out my old GF3 this evening and pop it in this machine and see if it is ok and pop the 9600 in my old box and see what the results are. I'll let you know what the results are.... Cheers Rik p.s. power supply is a 480W Tagan Hi All Its the card, RMA here we come.... I followed the suggestions that Paul made and swaped cards over with another machine. The GF3 works a treat in the P4P800E Del, so that is where it is staying. The 9600Pro is now in my old machine with the same symptoms as it had in the new machine, dotted lines etc. Martin - thanx for your suggestion about changing the AGP speed, but it is still a problem, as in the old machine the 9600Pro is forced to run at AGP 4x, by the design of the Mobo Thanx again for your help, Paul I know that this is not the place to ask, but does anyone have any suggestions for a 'good', quiet graphics card? Cheers Rik |
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