Radeon 9800pro artifacts

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Hi, I bought a Radeon 9800 to go into a new machine i was building, I think
it may be faulty.

Whenever I load a d3d application artifacts appear on the screen in the form
of little squares appearing randomly all over screen.
Ive formatted the machine and loaded all the drivers from scratch.
Via drivers are working fine, DirectX9 is properly installed and works ok
with another card, Ive tried the ATI drivers from the cdrom and from their
website but nothing gets rid of the artifacts.


Any suggestions to cure this problem ?
 
Hi, I bought a Radeon 9800 to go into a new machine i was building, I
think it may be faulty.

Whenever I load a d3d application artifacts appear on the screen in
the form of little squares appearing randomly all over screen.
Ive formatted the machine and loaded all the drivers from scratch.
Via drivers are working fine, DirectX9 is properly installed and
works ok with another card, Ive tried the ATI drivers from the cdrom
and from their website but nothing gets rid of the artifacts.


Any suggestions to cure this problem ?
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How big is the power supply on the computer?
 
Any suggestions to cure this problem ?
350 Watts
Ive disconnected all drives except the boot hdd and took out 2 pci cards.
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Take the beast back, it's ****ed.
Did scott test it in his machine yet?
 
Looks like faulty memory. If you overclock too high you get the same
artifacts. The only thing that will get rid of the artifacts is 1) the
omega drivers with which you can underclock the memory and hope it goes
away, or 2) take it back. Since you just bought it, 2) is the solution.

JK
 
John Hall said:
Looks like faulty memory. If you overclock too high you get the same
artifacts. The only thing that will get rid of the artifacts is 1) the
omega drivers with which you can underclock the memory and hope it goes
away, or 2) take it back. Since you just bought it, 2) is the solution.
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I've seen a screen capture of his artifacts, they're not the normal tiny
white pixels, these are large multi-coloured freakish things, they vary in
size, some are a single pixel wide and others are large multi-coloured
cubes, very strange.

His card ran fine for a few hours then it just started happening out of the
blue.

I agree though, it does sound like bad memory.
 
Ive turned off fast writes in bios and drivers.
I emailed the shop and they agree that the card sounds faulty, although if
they test it and card is fine i'l be charged £25.
I'l update you on what happens :)

thanks for the replies :)
 
Hi Paul,

Sorry to hear about your video card. When you boot up the system do you get
any blocks of colour? A couple of times I got some blocks at just as I
booted up, but my card seems ok there after. When I enter XP I get a few
flashes of lines like noise but everything seems ok there after.

It's a tough call sometimes to figure out if the memory is gone without
actually testing the memory. Has your video card been OC before? When you
initially installed it did you notice the problem?

I wonder if anyone has some software for ATI cards to test for bad memory?
This would save you ($) having it to take it in for service. Someone must
have a progrom something like scandisk where you can see bad sectors on a
hardrive.

Hope this helps!

JP












Do you get any lines across the screen?
 
:>
:>:>> Looks like faulty memory. If you overclock too high you get the same
:>> artifacts. The only thing that will get rid of the artifacts is 1) the
:>> omega drivers with which you can underclock the memory and hope it goes
:>> away, or 2) take it back. Since you just bought it, 2) is the solution.
:>
:>I've seen a screen capture of his artifacts, they're not the normal tiny
:>white pixels, these are large multi-coloured freakish things, they vary in
:>size, some are a single pixel wide and others are large multi-coloured
:>cubes, very strange.
:>
:>His card ran fine for a few hours then it just started happening out of the
:>blue.
:>
:>I agree though, it does sound like bad memory.
:>

I had the same exact symptoms show up about 2 weeks ago on a year and
a half old 9700 Pro. It happened right on powerup and got worse as
windows loaded. The card was shipped off to ATI for either repair or
replacement under warranty last week.

Oscar
 
The shop mailed me back and they agreed that the card sounded faulty, they
asked if i could bring it in for testing and replacement. I took it back
and they found it to be faulty. They offered a replacement when the video
card is back in stock which could have been a 2 weeks wait. I put the
extra cash towards a Radeon 9800PRO 256Mb card which seems to be functioning
ok at the moment.
My motherboard is only 4X AGP and windows crashes if i enable fast writes in
bios.
Processor is an AMD 2200+ with crappy pc133 memory, Im assuming thats the
reason why im only getting 27,000 points in aquamark ?
 
Hi, I bought a Radeon 9800 to go into a new machine i was building, I think
it may be faulty.

Whenever I load a d3d application artifacts appear on the screen in the form
of little squares appearing randomly all over screen.
Ive formatted the machine and loaded all the drivers from scratch.
Via drivers are working fine, DirectX9 is properly installed and works ok
with another card, Ive tried the ATI drivers from the cdrom and from their
website but nothing gets rid of the artifacts.


Any suggestions to cure this problem ?
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I also have these little white squares on a new ati 9800xt 256meg
card. This happens only with the digital interface to my Viewsonic
vp211b flat screen monitor. The analog interface is fine.

I can change these "artifacts", even make them go away with different
resolutions. The monitor likes 1600x1200 and this is one of the worst
settings.

This is my second ati 9800 card. The first one was a 9800 pro 256 meg,
which I bought in Oct 2003. It died a month ago.

The old card had the exact same problem with "artifacts". I ignored
the problem and used the analog interface. It died looking at a web
page. At that point even the pre-post text was garbled.

I'm pretty upset seeing the same crap on the new card I just installed
today.

Is it the monitor? Is it the computer? - I installed an old ati7500
card on the machine and it worked perfectly. No problems. The
monitor is fine. The computer is fine. I just upgraded the bios to
the latest version. No difference.

This machine, btw, is an asus a7n8x deluxe. 1gig of pc3200 ram. Two
wd raptors in raid 0. An amd2500+ cpu clocked at 3200+. I have a
$150 supply rated at 300w (quiet). I suppose I could swap in an old
silencer400, but since the card works well with the analog interface,
I'm less inclined to believe it's the supply.

I have no idea how to overclock a video card, so I don't think that's
the issue.

Regards,
Larry
 
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