X800 Xt-pe Artifacts help

[octane]

Hi folks, I have an AGP Connect 3D Radeon X800 pro vivo which has been unlocked to a 16pipeline X800 XT Platinum Edition ages ago when using XP

Ive just upgraded to Vista Ultimate and it automatically chose the drivers and recognized it was the XT-PE which was fine.

I have just ran ATI-Tool to see the clock settings and to run the Artifact scanner and im artifacting quite bad at these standard clock settings in which i took a screendump of the settings.

Im running the ati silencer 5 on the card too.

So wondering what the best course of action is. Do I have to reflash the card or what do you suggest?

Many thanks

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

ANything else new in your system? Please post system specs in the User CP.

 

[octane]

Cheers buddy, update done

 

[sneekypeet]

could try rolling back to older drivers, not sure what you were running previously, but I only assume you let Vista install the drivers when asked to do so automatically.

 

[octane]

To be honest Sneekypete I cant mind what drivers or firmware I used back in XP days it was soooooooo long ago....lol

Rolling back drivers will not work as it was a clean install of Vista mate so it has nothing to go on so to speak.

The only thing Ive noticed and you will see below is that there are no catalyst drivers installed..........would this make a difference?

Would I have to downgrade the card back to the way it was or can I maintain the 16 pipelines and do it another way to make it stable.

Im using the pc just now with no flaws whatsoever but dont wanna start gaming after seeing yellow lines etc on the artifact scanner.

With being a dell I cant access the bios to alter anything, could I be needing more volts or if its unstable at those settings Its not worth the hassle.

Sorry for babbling a bit and hope you can make sense of what im saying.....lol

 

[newtekie1]

Try downloading the latest drivers from ATi and installing them.

 

[sneekypeet]

Try downloading the latest drivers from ATi and installing them.

Honestly from my experience it was shortly into the 7.x series CCC that my PCI-e started acting up. I always went further back and used the 6.10CCC and just left it there. My experience was that those also had the best performance for me.

Either way I would start with at least getting some version of the driver installed!

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

Have you tried using ati tool to underclock and test for artifacts.

Lets not forget this card is getting up there in years, and has been running at levels it wasn't spec'd to run at.

 

[Sasqui]

I had the same card - loved it! And of course, god bless the W1z for the bios hack!!!

Other question is if you are seeing artifacts outside of ATITool? I haven't used it for a while, but I know there were some cases it was giving a false positive. If everything else is fine in games and benchmarks, then rest easy.

 

[zithe]

Does this happen only in certain games? X800XT only supports SM2.0 and that may cause problems in some newer games.

 

[octane]

I downloaded the XT Bios and Ati-winflash to save me relying on ATi-Tool to remember lower clock speeds.

Opened up Winflash, loaded the bin file and clicked program.........nothing happend,

I tried rebooting with unasigned drivers plus im in administrator mode, repeated the process and it still wouldnt flash.

I then tried an older version of winflash and nothing happend too.

I have now formatted the drive and reinstalled XP again thinking Vista must be the problem.
So I repeated the process and still nothing happend.

Any ideas folks

cheers

 

[octane]

problem solved, just done it through dos with floppy.

Thanks to all the references on the site, its great what you can do with the search button on here.....lol

 

[Mussels]

problem solved, just done it through dos with floppy.

Thanks to all the references on the site, its great what you can do with the search button on here.....lol

if you ever have to do it again, consider making a bootable DOS flash drive. i find it much easier than trying to find floppy disks in this day and age.