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~Alex~
Evening guys, I've got a weird problem with my graphics card, an ATI Radeon
9700 pro.
I recently did a clean install 'cos it'd been a while and I restored from a
working image and updated my graphics card drivers to the latest Omegas.
Everything seemed fine for a couple of weeks then I started getting weird
red or cyan vertical lines running down my screen (see pics)
http://www.geocities.com/jazzking69uk/gfx/004.jpg
Weird, I thought... I restarted and they went away but after about 5mins I
went to a website and the came back.
So I went back to a prevous version of the Omegas which I know worked but I
still had the same problem and even I noticed that when I restarted that
something fraky was going on during POST and the windows xp load screen
(http://www.geocities.com/jazzking69uk/gfx/005.jpg dunno how clear that will
be as I'm typing on the dodgy screen now!)
Anyway, so I guess it's something h/ware related rather than driver related
but what? I've read it might be something about a dodgy 3.3v rail on the
PSU, but my monitor gives the following report which doesn't seem too bad:
Field Value
Sensor Properties
Sensor Type Winbond W83697HF (ISA 290h)
Motherboard Name ASRock K7S8X / K7S8XE / K7VM2 / K7VM4 / K7VT4-4X
Temperatures
Motherboard 33 °C (91 °F)
CPU 43 °C (109 °F)
Maxtor 6Y120P0 38 °C (100 °F)
Maxtor 6Y080L0 26 °C (79 °F)
Cooling Fans
CPU 3668 RPM
Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.63 V
+3.3 V 3.31 V
+5 V 4.87 V
+12 V 12.35 V
+5 V Standby 4.97 V
I have to say though, it's only a Q-Tec PSU, (650W, yeah right,,,) but it's
been OK for the past few months so why would it suddenly freak out on me
now?!
I'm running an 2800+ with 512Mb and the two hard drived you see listed
above. Nothing too power hungry!
If anyone's got any other suggestions as to what I can do to fix the problem
I'd be very happy to hear them.
The gfx card is a refurb from a supplier in the UK, but only offers a 30 day
RTB warrantee, don't know if can get anything from ATI/Hercules because of
it....
I look forward to hearing your ideas!
Thanks for reading,
Alex
9700 pro.
I recently did a clean install 'cos it'd been a while and I restored from a
working image and updated my graphics card drivers to the latest Omegas.
Everything seemed fine for a couple of weeks then I started getting weird
red or cyan vertical lines running down my screen (see pics)
http://www.geocities.com/jazzking69uk/gfx/004.jpg
Weird, I thought... I restarted and they went away but after about 5mins I
went to a website and the came back.
So I went back to a prevous version of the Omegas which I know worked but I
still had the same problem and even I noticed that when I restarted that
something fraky was going on during POST and the windows xp load screen
(http://www.geocities.com/jazzking69uk/gfx/005.jpg dunno how clear that will
be as I'm typing on the dodgy screen now!)
Anyway, so I guess it's something h/ware related rather than driver related
but what? I've read it might be something about a dodgy 3.3v rail on the
PSU, but my monitor gives the following report which doesn't seem too bad:
Field Value
Sensor Properties
Sensor Type Winbond W83697HF (ISA 290h)
Motherboard Name ASRock K7S8X / K7S8XE / K7VM2 / K7VM4 / K7VT4-4X
Temperatures
Motherboard 33 °C (91 °F)
CPU 43 °C (109 °F)
Maxtor 6Y120P0 38 °C (100 °F)
Maxtor 6Y080L0 26 °C (79 °F)
Cooling Fans
CPU 3668 RPM
Voltage Values
CPU Core 1.63 V
+3.3 V 3.31 V
+5 V 4.87 V
+12 V 12.35 V
+5 V Standby 4.97 V
I have to say though, it's only a Q-Tec PSU, (650W, yeah right,,,) but it's
been OK for the past few months so why would it suddenly freak out on me
now?!
I'm running an 2800+ with 512Mb and the two hard drived you see listed
above. Nothing too power hungry!
If anyone's got any other suggestions as to what I can do to fix the problem
I'd be very happy to hear them.
The gfx card is a refurb from a supplier in the UK, but only offers a 30 day
RTB warrantee, don't know if can get anything from ATI/Hercules because of
it....
I look forward to hearing your ideas!
Thanks for reading,
Alex