Ahhh, My 9500np 128mb is dead!!

JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
edited January 2004 in Hardware
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.

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  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Reseat the card and clear cmos, try the card on another pc, try another card?
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited December 2003
    done all them, an old gf3 ti200 works fine its definitely the card. rma requested
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited December 2003
    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
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited December 2003
    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
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited January 2004
    Google solved it! Bios name was too long so had to rename & then the flash worked, card still fubarred though!
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    RMA... then buy my 9700pro :D
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited January 2004
    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
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    :bawling: I want a 9800xt.. so I was gonna sell it on :bawling: Damn missed a quick sale as well. Futzwah!
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Shorty wrote:
    :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...
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Around £140/£150 .. it's perfecto UNoverclocked condition ;)
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited January 2004
    This just happened to me...only on my 9700 Pro card. I've got a Geforce 3 in there in the meantime.

    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?
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited January 2004
    Panzer, its looks like its catching mate, wot make was your card, mine's Sapphire. Its being RMA'd tomorrow.
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited January 2004
    It's a Built by ATi card
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited January 2004
    Sorry but I think its rma time if its still under waranty, but I'd love to know wot is causing these failures.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited January 2004
    It turns out that Panzer & I are not the only one with this problem !
    25 freaking pages of it!!

    Screen Corruption Problems
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited January 2004
    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.
  • fjibberwackyfjibberwacky
    edited January 2004
    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:
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited January 2004
    I've updated the drivers as ATi has released them, but otherwise I hadn't done a thing to the card. :grumble:
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited January 2004
    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.
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