Problem with Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro

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Two problems with my current video card:

1) When I power on the computer no display comes up and the system
speaker says "System fail VGA test." However, if I reset the computer,
it starts up fine.

2) When rendering in 3D, I get all kinds of display issues:

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6039/untitled21cm.th.jpg

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5173/untitled9vv.th.jpg

(Sorry I didn't post thumbnails)

Only certain games give me this issue, Deus Ex being one of the worst.
Things like Doom III are absolutely unplayable. I get pretty decent
frames with anything I play too. I'm rather confident that this is a
video card issue though, a serious one at that. I had these problems
with my old system, and I upgraded every component of my PC (even the
power supply) EXCEPT the card, and I still have these problems.

What I'm wondering is if this is something that can be resolved without
having to purchase a new card. I get the most recent drivers ATI
releases (I'm running catalyst 5.9 now) and it never is fixed. Any
ideas would be much appreciated.
 
UNbacon said:
Two problems with my current video card:

1) When I power on the computer no display comes up and the system
speaker says "System fail VGA test." However, if I reset the computer,
it starts up fine.

2) When rendering in 3D, I get all kinds of display issues:

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6039/untitled21cm.th.jpg

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5173/untitled9vv.th.jpg
Click to expand...

Sorry, I find those images way too small to even tell there's an issue let
alone what kind. Did this card work fine until now and just started giving
symptoms?
 
Two problems with my current video card:

1) When I power on the computer no display comes up and the system
speaker says "System fail VGA test." However, if I reset the computer,
it starts up fine.

2) When rendering in 3D, I get all kinds of display issues:

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6039/untitled21cm.th.jpg

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5173/untitled9vv.th.jpg

(Sorry I didn't post thumbnails)

Only certain games give me this issue, Deus Ex being one of the worst.
Things like Doom III are absolutely unplayable. I get pretty decent
frames with anything I play too. I'm rather confident that this is a
video card issue though, a serious one at that. I had these problems
with my old system, and I upgraded every component of my PC (even the
power supply) EXCEPT the card, and I still have these problems.

What I'm wondering is if this is something that can be resolved without
having to purchase a new card. I get the most recent drivers ATI
releases (I'm running catalyst 5.9 now) and it never is fixed. Any
ideas would be much appreciated.
Click to expand...


May be a PSU problem: make sure you have an adequate PSU and that the
power connector for the card is not shared with anything else in the
PC.

Patrick

<[email protected]> - take five to email me...
 
Cold-boot issues can be usually attributed to a weak power supply or flaky
M/B. Since the M/B has been changed, it's probably the power supply. Try
unplugging all your disk drives and see if your system will at least make
POST.
 
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