Artifacting

a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
edited March 2004 in Hardware
I didn't notice this until I tried MissleMan's ACPI trick, but I took it off and went back to the ACPI Uniprocessor driver and the problem still remains so it could just be a coincidence that this started around the same time. Any ideas what is causing this? It happens in both 16-bit and 32-bit modes.

I've installed the newest drivers for the video card: Radeon 7500.
And made sure I had up-to-date drivers for the Monitor: ViewSonic VX-900-2

I know Al had a similar issue with one of his cards maybe a week ago, but I've never overclocked this card. Any way I can test the video RAM? At first it was just slightly annoying, but it seems like every few hours more and more artifacts are on the screen. If it is the video card is it possible I'm damaging the motherboard by keeping it in there?


Sometimes the artifacting is even worse than shown on this screen capture.

Comments

  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited February 2004
    Well, you could try underclocking the card.
    That was how I tested for bad memory.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited February 2004
    its the famous "Your radeon is dying" problem.

    for some reason it doesnt happen as much with nvidia chipsets (vid cards)

    (PS. not trying to start a flame war)About what i posted above))

    basicly your vid card is dying, get a new one. i seems you dont play games much, try getting a GeForce MX440 wich is like 30 bucks on pricewatch, or you could go with an ATI Radeon 9200SE but those are like 60bucks. i
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited February 2004
    Yeah, I don't. :)
    Seems like this card was around $40 or so. I just looked for an inexpensive card that also had DVI output. If it is the card then that truly sucks that it's dying because this card is only about 8 months old, or maybe even less.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited February 2004
    Downloaded RageD3 Tweak v3.9b
    Turned both the core and RAM as low as I could.
    Artifacting still appears, but compared is much less.

    I guess I will indeed be purchasing a new video card.

    Thanks for the help, guys! :)
  • qparadoxqparadox Vancouver, BC
    edited March 2004
    I think a lot of the current problems with ATI are due to ATI not having tight enough control of its 3-rd party manufacturers. Let's face it, ATI has only recently switched to the NVIDIA style 3-rd party manufacturing and it seems some of the manufacturers are less than up to par on some models. I've seen very few problems on built by ATI (or Sapphire for that matter) cards but most problems on the "others." Just an observation. My sample size (20 cards or so) is way to small to mean anything, but if other people are seeing this trend ...
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited March 2004
    My artifacts looked different.
    They were caused by insufficient cooling.
    They still pop up occasionally, when I OC too hard.
    Recently I had tested max with AtiTool and then I accidentally set the speed above the max. five minutes passed before the streaks appeared.
    Link
    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6155
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    fwiw, I've been very impressed with Transcend's ATi cards. I bought a refurbed 9000 and 7500, both Transcend cards, from Newegg. They're identical except for the chip under the heatsink; they're on the same PCB, same RAM, etc. They have transcend-branded RAM, and they both come clocked by default at 250 core/200 memory (the 7500 might be 200/200, I can't remember for sure). That Transcend RAM overclocks quite happily to 250MHz, and the core on the 9000 (haven't tried the 7500) does about 275MHz at least... that's not too bad, especially for a $40 card. :)
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