I've got a problem with my setup that's been baffling me for months now. I have the AGP version of the HIS x1950 pro 512mb ICEQ, on a win xp system (2gb ram, skt 939 Athlon X2 4600+).
The card was working fine when I bought it last July, and then around Christmas after I moved my computer from uni to home (that screams hardware issue) I started to get BSODs being caused by the graphics card (I don't remember the specific error now). They'd happen at fairly random times, rarely while playing games but fairly often when just browsing the net. I searched everywhere for some sort of solution and in the end tried installing some old drivers from the HIS website. This completely fixed the problem (I have no crashes whatsoever), but leaves me with terrible performance ingame, with a very jerky frame rate. Ive tolerated this crippled machine since then as I've been in my final university year and a non-crashing pc that allowed me to work but not game was more useful to me than one that would crash every few minutes.
Now uni is over I want to get the problem sorted, but can't think of a reason why the card would seemingly work fine (apart from it's performance ingame) on a set of old drivers, but not on any other. I can't say I've tried every set of drivers, but I've tried a good number. I installed the latest ATI drivers the other day and thought the problem was fixed, giving me very good performance in mass effect. However now the problem is back, meaning I've had to revert to the old drivers which make mass effect pretty unplayable.
Sometime within the first 30 minutes of having my computer switched on, the monitor will just turn off like it's lost signal, but the computer will still be running in the background (it hasn't crashed at all, I can still change track in itunes using the keyboard). I'm not getting the same BSODs as before but I think they were down to enabling/disabling the GPU recover in the control center. The only way to get anything to display on the monitor again is by hard resetting.
Anyone got any ideas? Is the graphics card just broken in some respect? The fact it works (ish) on one set of drivers makes it look like a compatability problem.
I use drivercleaner when changing drivers and my power supply shouldn't be the cause, I have a OCZ GameXStream 600w. I don't think it's overheating either, the temperature isn't high.
I'm considering just replacing it with the HD3850, but I'd obviously rather fix the problem, especially as there's no guarantee another ATI card won't have the same issues.
Thanks.
The card was working fine when I bought it last July, and then around Christmas after I moved my computer from uni to home (that screams hardware issue) I started to get BSODs being caused by the graphics card (I don't remember the specific error now). They'd happen at fairly random times, rarely while playing games but fairly often when just browsing the net. I searched everywhere for some sort of solution and in the end tried installing some old drivers from the HIS website. This completely fixed the problem (I have no crashes whatsoever), but leaves me with terrible performance ingame, with a very jerky frame rate. Ive tolerated this crippled machine since then as I've been in my final university year and a non-crashing pc that allowed me to work but not game was more useful to me than one that would crash every few minutes.
Now uni is over I want to get the problem sorted, but can't think of a reason why the card would seemingly work fine (apart from it's performance ingame) on a set of old drivers, but not on any other. I can't say I've tried every set of drivers, but I've tried a good number. I installed the latest ATI drivers the other day and thought the problem was fixed, giving me very good performance in mass effect. However now the problem is back, meaning I've had to revert to the old drivers which make mass effect pretty unplayable.
Sometime within the first 30 minutes of having my computer switched on, the monitor will just turn off like it's lost signal, but the computer will still be running in the background (it hasn't crashed at all, I can still change track in itunes using the keyboard). I'm not getting the same BSODs as before but I think they were down to enabling/disabling the GPU recover in the control center. The only way to get anything to display on the monitor again is by hard resetting.
Anyone got any ideas? Is the graphics card just broken in some respect? The fact it works (ish) on one set of drivers makes it look like a compatability problem.
I use drivercleaner when changing drivers and my power supply shouldn't be the cause, I have a OCZ GameXStream 600w. I don't think it's overheating either, the temperature isn't high.
I'm considering just replacing it with the HD3850, but I'd obviously rather fix the problem, especially as there's no guarantee another ATI card won't have the same issues.
Thanks.