Ahhh, My 9500np 128mb is dead!!

[Jimborae]

Ahhh, My 9500np 128mb is dead!!

Happened on Xmas Eve, while i was out, came back and this image was on the screen. Everything was fine before I left, wasn't overclocked and cant seen any scorching or anything untoward on the card.

[Black Hawk]

Reseat the card and clear cmos, try the card on another pc, try another card?

[Jimborae]

done all them, an old gf3 ti200 works fine its definitely the card. rma requested

[Jimborae]

Ok so I just tried to flash the vid card hoping that might sort it out. But everytime i try to flash it using Atiflash or Flashrom I keep getting a "file open error".

Can anybody tell me what this means or what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers

Jim

[Jimborae]

Bump anyone.

I have a Savage 3d pci card that I can use help with the flashing but can anyone answer the error message I get.

Cheers

Jimbo

[Jimborae]

Google solved it! Bios name was too long so had to rename & then the flash worked, card still fubarred though!

[Shorty]

RMA... then buy my 9700pro :D

[Jimborae]

Ahhhhh, Shorty,

Why didn't you say, I've just ordered a Hercules 9800se AIW. If I'd know you had a 9700pro for sale I'd have bought that.

Jim

[Shorty]

:bawling: I want a 9800xt.. so I was gonna sell it on :bawling: Damn missed a quick sale as well. Futzwah!

[Enverex]

:bawling: I want a 9800xt.. so I was gonna sell it on :bawling: Damn missed a quick sale as well. Futzwah!

How much are you trying to get for it? As I may know a few people who are interested...

[Shorty]

Around £140/£150 .. it's perfecto UNoverclocked condition ;)

[panzerkw]

This just happened to me...only on my 9700 Pro card. I've got a Geforce 3 in there in the meantime.

http://www.ifdg.net/data/Picture010345.jpg.

This card has never has a BIOS flash. Never been overclocked. Worked perfectly until today when I tried to play Flight Simulator 2004.

I tried resetting the CMOS, didn't work. When I boot up, I get a similar gargled screen. Took the card out, reseated it. Still trash on the screen. WTF?

[Jimborae]

Panzer, its looks like its catching mate, wot make was your card, mine's Sapphire. Its being RMA'd tomorrow.

[panzerkw]

It's a Built by ATi card

[Jimborae]

Sorry but I think its rma time if its still under waranty, but I'd love to know wot is causing these failures.

[Jimborae]

It turns out that Panzer & I are not the only one with this problem !
25 freaking pages of it!!

Screen Corruption Problems (http://www.sapphiretech.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20)

[panzerkw]

What. The. $%&@!!!

I have a red PCB 9700Pro with Samsung memory. But I guess this problem can affect any 9500, 9700 or 9800. Are these Radeon's days numbered?

Argggg....

ATi sent me the RMA info so now I have to wait about 2 weeks for it to be repaired/replaced.

[fjibberwacky]

That exact thing happened to me with my H.I.S. R9600XT (only 9600xt they had left)

Brand new out of the box, fine while POSTing, but as soon as it hit windows 2k it was screwed up like in the first post.

I managed to install some drivers (since it outputted fine before windows) with the monitor all screwed up like that, and after the reboot it was all good, and I haven't had any problems since. :scratch: :scratch:

[panzerkw]

I've updated the drivers as ATi has released them, but otherwise I hadn't done a thing to the card. :grumble:

[Jimborae]

if its fine in dos but fubarred in windows then its software, if its screwed in dos as well then its hardware & theres sweet f.a. you can you do about it.