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ClownKiller
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Posted - 2004.12.29 07:33:00 -
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Edited by: ClownKiller on 29/12/2004 07:36:19
Edited by: ClownKiller on 29/12/2004 07:34:52
After 6 months of playing Eve I had to replace my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb. I had the card replaced under warranty. Now 2 months later, the same thing is happening again. Can't play for 2 minutes before the graphics freak out. I'm running a pentium IV 3.0 ghz with windows XP. Has anyone else been having this problem? Anyone have any ideas what I can do to resolve it?
Thanks in advance
Clownkiller
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ClownKiller
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Posted - 2004.12.29 07:33:00 -
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Edited by: ClownKiller on 29/12/2004 07:36:19
Edited by: ClownKiller on 29/12/2004 07:34:52
After 6 months of playing Eve I had to replace my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb. I had the card replaced under warranty. Now 2 months later, the same thing is happening again. Can't play for 2 minutes before the graphics freak out. I'm running a pentium IV 3.0 ghz with windows XP. Has anyone else been having this problem? Anyone have any ideas what I can do to resolve it?
Thanks in advance
Clownkiller
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Garner
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Posted - 2004.12.29 12:22:00 -
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Check the temp inside your case.
I have the same problem with my card because the fan stopped working on the thing 6 months ago.
Until I get my lazy arse around to either fixing it or getting a new card I have to run my PC with the side of the case off... otherwise it overheats, I get about 30 minutes of 'freaky' graphics popping in and out warning before the PC reboots itself.
Even with a working fan, if your case isn't properly cooled your card will overheat and cause the problems you describe. Unless its really cooking you should be suffering no permanent damage to the card...
Try playing the game with the side of the PC case off. If things improve, its not the card itself, just the rest of the your PC being too hot for the card's cooling to cope with.
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Garner
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Posted - 2004.12.29 12:22:00 -
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Check the temp inside your case.
I have the same problem with my card because the fan stopped working on the thing 6 months ago.
Until I get my lazy arse around to either fixing it or getting a new card I have to run my PC with the side of the case off... otherwise it overheats, I get about 30 minutes of 'freaky' graphics popping in and out warning before the PC reboots itself.
Even with a working fan, if your case isn't properly cooled your card will overheat and cause the problems you describe. Unless its really cooking you should be suffering no permanent damage to the card...
Try playing the game with the side of the PC case off. If things improve, its not the card itself, just the rest of the your PC being too hot for the card's cooling to cope with.
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Eyeshadow
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Posted - 2004.12.29 13:21:00 -
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Edited by: Eyeshadow on 29/12/2004 13:21:03
radeon 9800 pro is a notoriously short lived card. Mine burnt out a few weeks ago (after the fan failed within 4 weeks of getting it) and it wasnt even a year old. Never o/c it or done anything to it. It wasnt warrantied cos i "aquired" it, didnt buy it. Went down the local PC shop and got a Nvidia instead. I loved the radeon, performance was fantastic, but i dont want to replace one every year
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Eyeshadow
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Posted - 2004.12.29 13:21:00 -
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Edited by: Eyeshadow on 29/12/2004 13:21:03
radeon 9800 pro is a notoriously short lived card. Mine burnt out a few weeks ago (after the fan failed within 4 weeks of getting it) and it wasnt even a year old. Never o/c it or done anything to it. It wasnt warrantied cos i "aquired" it, didnt buy it. Went down the local PC shop and got a Nvidia instead. I loved the radeon, performance was fantastic, but i dont want to replace one every year
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Styxx
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Posted - 2005.01.04 21:49:00 -
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Clown, I have almost the exact same setup you have. My 9800 Pro blew up also four weeks after a year and 2 months of use. The fan wasnt working it appeared and like you my card was under warrenty also.
Took me 6 weeks to get a new card replacement. The weird part is that now all my desktop icons are all vertical colored lines as it appears something got corrupted when it went bad. I have no idea how to fix it. For instance when i make a new exel spreadsheet and save it the standard icon showing it as a excel spreadsheet is illegible and looks just like the others. Explain that one to me as it was a 9800Pro replacement for a 9800Pro. Cant be a video card issue.
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Thotamon
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Posted - 2005.01.05 09:04:00 -
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Have an nvidia 6800 GT right now with 2 fans on it,
my old card was an ati9700 pro though and i had loads of trouble with it, lots of blue screen of death's, sometimes restarting the graphics came out all garbled in text mode or with 2 thick vertical lines across the screen, so far the nvidia card works okey, but the fans on these things are not known for quality 
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Henka
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Posted - 2005.01.05 11:54:00 -
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I noticed that the fans on radeon (and, tbh, all other cards) are the worst peace of crap in existence.
I got a 9800 pro not long ago and the first think i did was getting a new Fan for it (zalman).. the fan is
virtualy noiseless (atleast compared to the one on the card originaly) and the original fan also pushed the temperature on the heatsink well above 70degress even though the fan rotated in good 6000 rpm
So, i would recomend, to save your ears AND wallet, replace the fan with something less useless.
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.05 14:41:00 -
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 Originally by: Styxx
...now all my desktop icons are all vertical colored lines as it appears something got corrupted when it went bad. I have no idea how to fix it. For instance when i make a new exel spreadsheet and save it the standard icon showing it as a excel spreadsheet is illegible and looks just like the others. Explain that one to me as it was a 9800Pro replacement for a 9800Pro. Cant be a video card issue.
Download microsoft powertools or powertoys or something like that from www.microsoft.com (might be somewhere on the install cd aswell). There is an option in it somewhere to rebuild icons.
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Grandorr
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Posted - 2005.01.05 17:21:00 -
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I have never had problems with ATI based cards, neither has the hundreds of customers i have outfitted with ATI cards.
As far as heat is concerned, never had a problem with them, even when overclocking. I bought a system exhaust blower and it runs just fine.
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Kumquat
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Posted - 2005.01.05 20:54:00 -
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My 9800 Pro died yesterday, sob, as I was an early adopter I now have an out-of-warranty ú330 paper weight. Hopefully my new 6800 GT will arrive tomorrow as I'm not enjoying EVE on my old single head GeForce 3.
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Oddie KnifeEdge
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Posted - 2005.01.05 22:31:00 -
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i just burned my almost new (2.5 months) ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 pro 128MB 
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Aimar
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Posted - 2005.01.10 03:00:00 -
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My Radeon 9800Pro 128 died about a week ago after a couple of years of faithfull service. It was the first ATi card that i experienced and i think im going to go back to Nvidia or get a x600 because i cant afford ú300 again. My problem got so bad that no only couldnt i play any games, i couldnt even change the desktop background without a crash.
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Beta Vixen
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Posted - 2005.01.13 18:46:00 -
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the Windows icon rebuilder feature is in TweakUI; I've forgotten which tab though (and I'm "at work" so can't check).
Make sure you get the right version of TweakUI -- because it is unsupported, MS won't answer questions or fix any problems it may cause.
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Thu Ihng
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Posted - 2005.01.14 00:16:00 -
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Those line on your icons could also mean somethings wrong with your replacement card as well
Personally I have never had a problem (so far) with ATI cards (if you disregard thier linux drivers)
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BlackHole Bob
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Posted - 2005.01.14 01:48:00 -
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you guys should set thermal limits in your bios.....or get a termaltake cheesy temp monitor...sorry all your cards are burning up:(:(:(
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2005.01.14 11:44:00 -
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Edited by: Scorpyn on 14/01/2005 11:45:28
Originally by: Beta Vixen
the Windows icon rebuilder feature is in TweakUI
That's the one
Originally by: BlackHole Bob
you guys should set thermal limits in your bios.....or get a termaltake cheesy temp monitor...sorry all your cards are burning up:(:(:(
I don't think you can set a limit for the vga card. Actually I'm not even sure those cards have a temperature sensor.
Anyway, just saying Radeon 9800 and referring to a broken fan isn't very specific, since it's the card manufacturer that puts the fan there, not the chip manufacturer (unless ATI made the card aswell).
Also, you can't have too many chassis fans (I have 5 atm).
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