Radeon 9700Pro artifacts

[Dale Walker]

My 9700pro (Gigabyte Maya II GV-9700pro) has started displaying
artifacts on most heavy duty games. Not sure whether it's the latest
drivers of something more fundamental. DXDiag reports no problems and
lesser demanding apps don't seem to have a problem. 3dmark does seem
to display the problems however. (lots of triangles, then flashing bit
grids.) It's been working fine for around 18months.
Is there a more sophisticated diagnostic tool available to check for
dodgy video memory etc.

 

[Heywood]

might be heat related as your card begins to stress under graphics
demands. Had a similar problem...refitted my 9700 pro with an Artic
cooler ($20) instead of the oem fan/sink(took about 10 minutes!)...all
returned to normal. Had it about 20 months now

system= (ATI 9700 pro + athlon 64 3200+ MSI board 1 gig pc3500 ram
etc. XP Pro....+4 case cooling fans. case temp is about 29c and cpu
temp is about 42c under load (nothing is overclocked!)

Summer is also upon us...do you have adequate cooling in your
case...are you overclocked?

Never liked the oem fan/shim arrangement anyway,,,have you checked the
oem fan operation and cleaned it and the system itself (dirt causes
heat!)..is there an unusual noise coming from the 9700 fan (bearing
failure?) Also check out your power supply to make sure the card has
proper power! The 9700 sucks alot of juice and produces alot of heat
when under stress!

Of course there are other possibilities.

 

[Mangyrat]

clean all the dust out of your sys after 18 months i bet the fans are cloged
up.
that may help but but also try going back one version of the driver.
im not runing 4.5 now due to same problem.

 

[Patrick Vick]

might be heat related as your card begins to stress under graphics
demands. Had a similar problem...refitted my 9700 pro with an Artic
cooler ($20) instead of the oem fan/sink(took about 10 minutes!)...all
returned to normal. Had it about 20 months now

That is interesting... just roll back the driver before taking a move like
this one. Who did ya buy the cooler from?

 

[Heywood]

Bought it ffom svc.com
http://svc.com/cardcooler.html look at the bottom...they had very
good service too!
jeff