Problem w/ Radeon 8500 LE and ECS K7S5A

[LesGratuites.com]

Hi!
I just bought a Radeon 8500 LE 64Mo DDR (Hercules) Clock 250/500 and
got a freezed black screen with vertical lines when trying to
Benchmark
the card with 3DMark2001

Motherboard is Elite ECS K7S5A + 512MB DDR (1 bank)

No problems when DOWNclocking Radeon 8500 GPU to 200Mhz (instead of
250)

I've tried latest SiS AGP Driver 1.16, differents ATI display drivers
(3.2, 3.4, 3.5) Ati Omega drivers (www.omegacorner.com) and I still
get the same
problem : 3D displays freeze the system with a black screen.

I also tried to change some parameters in the Bios : AGP 4x -> 2x,
Fast writing and so on... No luck !

I suspect a weak voltage for my AGP slot ? Is there anybody who faced
(solved) this problem ?
I previously used a ATI 7500 and it was rock stable !
Thanks for any help

Regis

 

[Glenn James]

Does the card have the latest BIOS installed? You should be able to find out
what BIOS the video card in the display properties
Properties>Settings>Advanced>Adapter -the BIOS string should be at the
bottom somewhere. Then go to www.hercules.com and go the relevant region.
Eventually, you will find a support / drivers section. Locate the BIOS
download and check your version number against the version available for
download. I know for a fact that a BIOS update was produced so that the Cat
3.1/3.2's could be used with this card. If you have the older BIOS installed
(as I did), it might explain the problems you having.

And then again, maybe not. You could also check the BIOS version of your
motherboard and DL the latest one from http://www.ecsusa.com/. As for PSU
voltages, possible, but I'm running a GA-7IXEH mobo, two hard drives, to
optical drives, soundcard, modem, ATA controller, CPU and case fan from a
cheap generic 300W PSU and I've never had a problem with my FDX 8500LE. To
do a quick test, you could remove everything but the bare minimum (i.e. just
the hard drive, VGA card, and RAM removing all other cards) and see if it
still happens.

Failing all of the above, I know that there is an ECS newsgroup
........elitegroup.... somthing or another. Maybe try posting the message
there as well.

Regards,

Glenn

 

[Marius]

Here I had the same problem...after spending 3 days the only way
to fix it it, was to replace the ECS K7SA (POS) with an Asus A7V8X-X.
Problem solved!
Next time I'll be a little bit more careful when I buy motherboards.
I hope you find a way, I could not take it anymore.

Regards,
Marius

 

[LesGratuites.com]

Thanks for your tips. The only thing I haven't done yet is to flash the
Radeon card. I'll do it today and let you know

I've tried to reflash ECS K7S5A bios but it didn't solve the problem
Also tried to remove the SiS AGP driver, tried differents clock
for AMD Athlon 1600+ (tried 100,110,143Mhz) but still got the problem
Also tried odd things such Bios Cacheable ...

Ok, i'll be back with result about video card bios flash results.

See ya !