9600 with strange artifacts?

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:48 pm

I just upgraded to a 8rda3+ and a 9600. on boot and in bios i see strange artifacts and what not... and now that its running there are red lines that show up when scrolling... i dont know what is wrong... i have a few things to try still.... so i will see if i can fix it.. i hope its not a bad card.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:01 am

well.. inital experience wiht ATI = SUCK!

I put my 5200 back in and everything is good again. i could not get my second monitor to work wiht the ATI and it was all messed up. Im going to blame it on bad hardware. when i changed the HS the core was all chipped up like really bad so im gonna guess that has somting to do with it... i guess im gonna have to RMA it.. i have another computer ill try it in first to confirm the problem.

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:08 am

user error.

Greg

donk · Post by **donk** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:54 am

Yep.. I had the same thing happen to me when I try changing the fan/hs on my original 9500.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:58 am

Did you get ALL of the nvidia driver out of the system before you installed the ATI? When I went from nvidia to ATI that caused me some problems. I did all the normal changing to VGA to dump the drivers and even ran the nvidia driver clean up tool. System still seemed buggy so I ended up doing a format and clean install. Dont give up on ATI you would be cheating yourself if you do even if the card is bad get another one.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:22 pm

there were some known issues with 8rda3+ and the whole 9600 series - lots of threads over at amdmb.com - some people said they wouldn't eun at all and ati and nvidia were blaming each other

that might be your problemo

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:33 pm

actually I had that red line thing also, and it happened with a fan change.

Greg

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 3:39 pm

yea the die had really bad looking corners. I threw a new HD in and installed XP fresh and it did the same thigs... i got this card in a 8rda+ and it seems to be ok so far....

If i have to... i Have to find a stock HS for it since i allready cut it up, and rma it or return it for somthing else.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 3:59 pm

ok.. now im gonna need a stock ati heatsink to put back on this thing so i can RMA it and hopefully get a good one this time. I should of stopped when i seen the condition of the DIE on the GPU. here is a picture of whats left of the stock HS... if you have one that you could show a picture of i can tell you if its the one i need. I machined the one part off to use on the MOBO for the mosfets.