[zZealoT]

About 6 hours after I put it in my comp it started doing wierd things in games... Like I am seeing blackness at menus and white blocks where things should be and all sorts of wierd stuff... I have not even tried to overclock it yet anyone know what is wrong

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More info: I use Winxp home, the card is not overclocked, not overheating, I use the 2642 Omega drivers... It was working fine for about 6 hours... core = 500 mem = 351, which is what it started at.

Edit: Is this what they call artifacting? Some stuff appearing black... or white... Or as blocks or just poor quality in general... But some things are fine...

 

[grkgus]

no sure...i didnt have that issue even though i did have driver issues.

i installed the omega drivers which seem to work best....i have really bad problems with the catalyst drivers from ATi....here is the link to omega drivers...http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php

 

[Pacman]

what the big diference with the omega drivers and ati ones??
try installing the ati drivers and see if the problem still exists...

 

[iNiMiTabLE]

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Originally Posted by zZealoT About 6 hours after I put it in my comp it started doing wierd things in games... Like I am seeing blackness at menus and white blocks where things should be and all sorts of wierd stuff... I have not even tried to overclock it yet anyone know what is wrong ! More info: I use Winxp home, the card is not overclocked, not overheating, I use the 2642 Omega drivers... It was working fine for about 6 hours... core = 500 mem = 351, which is what it started at. Edit: Is this what they call artifacting? Some stuff appearing black... or white... Or as blocks or just poor quality in general... But some things are fine...

So you tried using the omega drivers first when you first installed the 9600XT? If so, try the catalyst drivers on the ATI website. Oh and did you make sure you uninstalled the old drivers you had on your computer before you installed the 9600XT? Try using different drivers and use driver cleaner pro when uninstalling old drivers before installing the new ones.

 

[zZealoT]

The thing is everything was fine for about 6 hours? Whats with that?

 

[HrnyGoat]

If you mem is at 351 then thats 700MHz DDR speed. 9600XTs usually run at 300 (600MHz DDR) Try downclocking the memory a bit and see if it helps.

 

[grkgus]

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Originally Posted by Pacman what the big diference with the omega drivers and ati ones?? try installing the ati drivers and see if the problem still exists...

not sure but for me the ati drivers would not work correclty on my system..very weird...it would do random reboots and freeze...

 

[Kopi]

They are modded drivers for OC'ing. They also come with their own overclocking program and extra display options. A great driver.

 

[zZealoT]

Ok I am trying all those things people have said, btw is there a program I can get to monitor the temp of my card? I thought 9600XT had that capability?

 

[J3r3my]

ATI Tool will show the temps.

 

[zZealoT]

Ok, I tried lowering the memory but to no avail. So I removed the Omega drivers, reset, then use driver cleaner and installed the latest ATI Catalyst drivers. Everything seems to work 100% fine now... Which is good ^^ Except I wonder why the omega ones stopped working? It used to be that the ATI ones caused my comp to crash so I had no other choice but the Omega ones but now it appears to be the other way round. Oh and Jeremy the thing is, in the ATI tools the temperature part is grey so I cannot touch it, but I was under the impression that the 9600XT could have that option on?

 

[zZealoT]

Everything is still working... But now when I try to open ATI Tools I get this:

 

[J3r3my]

My 9600XT had temp monitering.

 

[Pacman]

mine doesn't... get the lastest version of ATI Tool, or restart it...

as it says... it showed it to me the first time i used it...

 

[Kopi]

Not necessarily. I have a 9600PRO and my friend has the 9800XT. Neither of us have the ability to monitor temps. There is no sensor on our cards, so no temps can be displayed. Only certain cards are compatible, but if you are compatible open the ATI tool and its right there below the Max GPU and Mem settings buttons.

 

[MasterBillyQuizBoy]

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Originally Posted by J3r3my My 9600XT had temp monitering.

Mine as well, just use Everest Home Edition to monitor the GPU.

 

[pablo420]

Shouldn't you have erased the old display drivers with driver cleaner b4 you installed the new ones?