faulty graphics?

saikou · Jun 13, 2008

Im having trouble with my AGP X1950 Pro. recently when i play games the screen goes strange colours and the computer freezes. ive tried new drivers and reinstalling windows with no luck. can anybody help?

A Cheese Danish · Jun 13, 2008

Is it overclocked at all?

saikou · Jun 13, 2008

no never

ShadowFold · Jun 13, 2008

its overheating. Try dusting it and if that doesnt work get a better fan.

Castiel · Jun 13, 2008

Or your ATI card could be a POS.

saikou · Jun 13, 2008

already cleaned it. its a powercolor x1950 pro with Arctic cooling called acelero x2

A Cheese Danish · Jun 13, 2008

It's most likely overheating. Try to get more airflow around it and keep it clean

saikou · Jun 13, 2008

ok i let u know how it goes. thnks

saikou · Jun 13, 2008

hey i dont think its overheating. temps in the catalyst control center says everything is fine. i can windows for hours but as soon as i load up a game or dvd or anything that uses direct 3d it freezes

3n3rgy · Jun 14, 2008

I got your same problem dude but I got the saphire ( pci e ) one. from the search I did it turned out to be a bios problem. I still don't know how to update it and posted a Thread in this same forum. will let you know when I have some results

Silverel · Jun 14, 2008

Didja recently get new drivers for it? There's an AGP hotfix out for the 8.5's that my 2600xt AGP is running on. Seems to work alright.

3n3rgy · Jun 14, 2008

agree , try the latest driver first. How it works for you. but unfortunately didn't help me at all

CrackerJack · Jun 14, 2008

what are your temps anyway?

3n3rgy · Jun 14, 2008

above 80 s :S ... when rendering they increase in from 50s to 80s s in no time . Thank god I made a very good ventilated pc otherwise I think now adays my card would be a fried one

lol

the problem is that I cant test it any more to avoid heating it up

CrackerJack · Jun 14, 2008

thats way to hot for that card. mine will do the same thing at 70c, i know the pci-e had this problem becasue of the fan speeds. I don't know about the AGP's, i would edit the bios and change the fan speed. Usually they are only running around 45% peak. But at 100% you can't really tell, towards noise. But that's with a stock cooler.

3n3rgy · Jun 14, 2008

yeah ... I currently started a new thread because I didn't find a way to either update the bios or else set the fan speed to increase ( my idea for the fan was to attach it to the mobo instead of the card ) but from what I read the problem with my vga's bios goes beyond overheating

... well hope I find some guides that work hehe

CrackerJack · Jun 14, 2008

upload your bios, i'll see if it's the fan.

3n3rgy · Jun 14, 2008

CrackerJack said:
upload your bios, i'll see if it's the fan.

mmm I would if I new how

sry my dumbness

CrackerJack · Jun 14, 2008

3n3rgy said:
mmm I would if I new how sry my dumbness

that's cool. download gpu-z and there's a option to save the bios. then once you save use winrar (or whatever) to zip the file, then upload.

3n3rgy · Jun 14, 2008

Darn

... it says "BIOS reading is not supported on your device"

However if it may help I uploaded these :

http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/08/06/14/34.png
http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/08/06/14/hdy.png

CrackerJack · Jun 14, 2008

oh ok, i didn't see where you said that you had a pci-e. :laugh:

give me a min, i'll just upload mine.

There the bios, Sapphire 1950pro 256mb Fan Fix. I hope this helps. My card runs about 11c cooler at 100% just at idle. I never have problems playing games.
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spud107 · Jun 14, 2008

try downclocking the memory 10mhz or so, i used ati tray tools for this,

3n3rgy · Jun 14, 2008

all I really wish is to find a way to update the bios to : SA99902.007 and I found a tool online to manage the fan controller for this driver but i still didn't touch it to see weather it solves the problem by itself. I don't really like to mess with clocks.

tyt Cracker Jack and thanks for your help

3n3rgy · Jun 14, 2008

CrackerJack said:
oh ok, i didn't see where you said that you had a pci-e.

give me a min, i'll just upload mine.

There the bios, Sapphire 1950pro 256mb Fan Fix. I hope this helps. My card runs about 11c cooler at 100% just at idle. I never have problems playing games.
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Yeah I downloaded that one

. Do you have any idea on how I could update my card's bios ?? The problem is that I don't have floppy drive :S

btw RaBit v2.20 is tool I found to hack the bios. it's quit cool

... but for now I am going to stick to saphir's default.

CrackerJack · Jun 14, 2008

that's a edit bios that i did. (rabit) use the link to find out how to use atiflash.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=57750&highlight=atiflash

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Case	Thermaltake Soprano
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