2nd 9800Pro goes back

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My Sapphire 9800 Pro purchased Feb 1st died in August and I received another
one from Newegg a couple days ago. It's defective and is going back (got
the rma already).
It has a problem similar to what many others have mentioned. When I load a
game, the computer usually locks up. I can get into the game menu on some,
but there are dots all over the screen and when I try to play the game, it
locks up.
I took off the HSF and put some AS5 on it, but that didn't help. I installed
my VGA Silencer, but that didn't help. I even underclocked it as far as I
could (300/300) with riva tuner, but even that didn't make games playable
(timedemo for CoD loaded before it locked up).
The dots indicate a core problem (tearing and triangles are associated with
memory problems), and it does get hot. Memory wasn't overheating, though.
This card is similar to the one I had before, 350 core and Hynix memory
chips. The only difference appears to be a Sapphire sticker on the molex
connector.

Gary
 
Yup, PSU is fine. It's an Antec 350. One cd-rom player and 1 fan running.
Had been running a Voodoo 5500 fine, and those (big cards with 2 fans) also
have the additional Molex for power.
 
mate has a similar problem. his new 3.2GHz P4 has done this from switching
it on but i thought that it was just a refresh rate or driver problem but it
looks like an RMA.

Robin
 
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