Problem with Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro

[UNbacon]

Two problems with my current video card:

1) When I power on the computer no display comes up and the system
speaker says "System fail VGA test." However, if I reset the computer,
it starts up fine.

2) When rendering in 3D, I get all kinds of display issues:

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6039/untitled21cm.th.jpg

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5173/untitled9vv.th.jpg

(Sorry I didn't post thumbnails)

Only certain games give me this issue, Deus Ex being one of the worst.
Things like Doom III are absolutely unplayable. I get pretty decent
frames with anything I play too. I'm rather confident that this is a
video card issue though, a serious one at that. I had these problems
with my old system, and I upgraded every component of my PC (even the
power supply) EXCEPT the card, and I still have these problems.

What I'm wondering is if this is something that can be resolved without
having to purchase a new card. I get the most recent drivers ATI
releases (I'm running catalyst 5.9 now) and it never is fixed. Any
ideas would be much appreciated.

 

[Augustus]

Two problems with my current video card:

1) When I power on the computer no display comes up and the system
speaker says "System fail VGA test." However, if I reset the computer,
it starts up fine.

2) When rendering in 3D, I get all kinds of display issues:

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6039/untitled21cm.th.jpg

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5173/untitled9vv.th.jpg

Sorry, I find those images way too small to even tell there's an issue let
alone what kind. Did this card work fine until now and just started giving
symptoms?

 

[Peter]

Re-seat your card.

 

[patrickp]

Two problems with my current video card:

1) When I power on the computer no display comes up and the system
speaker says "System fail VGA test." However, if I reset the computer,
it starts up fine.

2) When rendering in 3D, I get all kinds of display issues:

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/6039/untitled21cm.th.jpg

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/5173/untitled9vv.th.jpg

(Sorry I didn't post thumbnails)

Only certain games give me this issue, Deus Ex being one of the worst.
Things like Doom III are absolutely unplayable. I get pretty decent
frames with anything I play too. I'm rather confident that this is a
video card issue though, a serious one at that. I had these problems
with my old system, and I upgraded every component of my PC (even the
power supply) EXCEPT the card, and I still have these problems.

What I'm wondering is if this is something that can be resolved without
having to purchase a new card. I get the most recent drivers ATI
releases (I'm running catalyst 5.9 now) and it never is fixed. Any
ideas would be much appreciated.

May be a PSU problem: make sure you have an adequate PSU and that the
power connector for the card is not shared with anything else in the
PC.

Patrick

<[email protected]> - take five to email me...

 

[First of One]

Remove the "th." from the filename to see the full-sized image.

 

[First of One]

Cold-boot issues can be usually attributed to a weak power supply or flaky
M/B. Since the M/B has been changed, it's probably the power supply. Try
unplugging all your disk drives and see if your system will at least make
POST.

 

[Augustus]

Remove the "th." from the filename to see the full-sized image.

Thanks