Hlp: Radeon 8500LE Heat Damage?

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VoidRoamer

Hello folks,

I was hoping some kind person could enlighten me.

I have recently begun playing some of the newer DX9 games. When
playing Knights of the Old Republic, the game locked up at a specific
point. Replaying from start overcame the problem however it still
locks up on occasion. Lock On: Modern Air Combat has the exact same
problem. When playing the game, it locks up at precisely the same
point when replaying the Mig-29 intercept demo, that is, when the
plane begins to exit the cloud layer. When performing other tasks in
the game it seems to lock up more randomly.

Each time, my PC (Windows XP) crashes with a screen full of colourful
vertical stripes. I have tried everything including the usual
reinstall everything, latest drivers, patches, etc, etc. Everything
works fine, including 'older' games such as Jedi Academy and all 2D
games/applications, only certain 3D games in specific circumstances.

I was wondering if this may be a sign of heat damage? (It has been
extremely hot lately) or possibly a faulty GPU (a bad instruction?).
I installed the Omega Catalyst drivers recently when my system had
Win98SE but replaced the ATI Catalyst drivers as there was no
difference.

Advice would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

VoidRoamer
 
VoidRoamer said:
Hello folks,

I was hoping some kind person could enlighten me.

I have recently begun playing some of the newer DX9 games. When
playing Knights of the Old Republic, the game locked up at a specific
point. Replaying from start overcame the problem however it still
locks up on occasion. Lock On: Modern Air Combat has the exact same
problem. When playing the game, it locks up at precisely the same
point when replaying the Mig-29 intercept demo, that is, when the
plane begins to exit the cloud layer. When performing other tasks in
the game it seems to lock up more randomly.

Each time, my PC (Windows XP) crashes with a screen full of colourful
vertical stripes. I have tried everything including the usual
reinstall everything, latest drivers, patches, etc, etc. Everything
works fine, including 'older' games such as Jedi Academy and all 2D
games/applications, only certain 3D games in specific circumstances.

I was wondering if this may be a sign of heat damage? (It has been
extremely hot lately) or possibly a faulty GPU (a bad instruction?).
I installed the Omega Catalyst drivers recently when my system had
Win98SE but replaced the ATI Catalyst drivers as there was no
difference.
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Check to make sure the fan on the card is working. The colored stripes may
suggest overstressed video memory. Is the card overclocked? If so, set it
back to defaults. If not, try UNDERclocking it with one of the free
utilities from www.rage3d.com. Radeonator Lite works well and is the
simplest to use.

If that doesn't help, you might try a card cooler. You can buy one, or you
can make one by bending a spare slot cover at a 90-degree angle parallel to
the card. Drill two holes to mount an old cpu fan and let it blow across the
card and its memory chips.
 
I got rid of this by going into the BIOS and setting everything to default
settings. Won't do any harm to try and worked for me. Not sure why though.

Ron
 
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