Overclocking questions...how to tell if I am ruining card

Disaster1Disaster1
edited December 2003 in Hardware
I have a Radeon 9800NP overclocked to a pro using the Bios above. How do I tell if I am ruining my card? I haven't had a problem yet running anything in 3D, other than Knights of the Old Republic, but apparently that is a patch issue and not anything wrong with the card. I have play Halo, MOH, and COD without any problems. Its been overclocked for a week or so...maybe a little more. Here is a little backround of my system:

AMD 2700+
Radeon 9800NP (overclocked to pro)
80GB HD
512MB Ram
350W Antec PS
DVD Drive
DVD R/W

The problem I had was I got a device failure message (Windows just froze, had to cold boot and THEN I got the message saying windows recovered from a device failure) Both times this was running things having to do with DVD's. I was running DVD Shrink and it happened, and I was running NERO the second time. Also one time while running NERO the drivers failed and it went to the basic VGA colors and I had to reboot. My question is are these problems being cause by my overclock? Should I give it a couple more days and see what happens? I am running stock cooling on the card and have a Globalwin CAF12 blowing on the card. Im not sure if its an overclock issue because like I said I'm having no problem in 3D no artifacting or anything what so ever...

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    If your video card isn't producing visual errors inside games (Little white dots, polygons stretching eratically, missing textures, et. al.) you've not yet hit the point where you could ruin your video card.
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited December 2003
    Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Event Viewer -> System logs

    This'll tell you exactly what happened. You should see two Red circles with white X's inside that denote if something went wrong.

    Application log may also tell you.
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