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Corrupt Graphics ?

Manta711

Manta711

Manta711

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Hi chaps,

I'm sure someone will know the answer to this......:)

I've just RMA'd a HIS 4850 Radeon graphics card because i had a lot of corruption on the graphics using the latest 8.12 drivers. (Elongated polygons dragging all over the screen!)

I thought this was gonna be down to faulty graphics memory as i've read on here.....but obviously not as i've just had a reply from OC saying the card is fine after they tested it :eek:

So my question is what could be causing this?
 
Hmm.. sounds like one of those cards that shows up fine when testing but is knackered once its home and in your pc.

If I were you I'd explain the problem to Gibbo/Yewen and see if they can get it tested under the same sort of environment where you're getting problems.
 
Was the problem in all games or just one or two?

OCUK's "testing" might have only involved a quick loop 3DMark or something like that, if it's overheating related then they aren't going to see it.

If it's Catalyst 8.12 related then blame AMD and buy NVidia next time.
 
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Well i got the card back from OC. Just re installed it and it still the same. It also used to do it when i had 8.11 drivers installed so its not 8.12 specific.

Its running under win xp with a 420w power supply. Is that powerful enough?
I've only got hard drive connected and graphics card connected. (Disconnected others drives to try and cut down on power usage to see if it made any difference)

Would it be down to the motherboard only being 4X pci-e?
 
I have 8-12 drivers and no problem with them, as for go with nvidia is alittle expasnive... if i m right ATIs drivers are more advanged?(rubbish spelling sorry) than nvidias (reason why nvidias works) mainly?

it could be down to the drivers not being install propely (touchy subject)
 
Temps are only high 40s / low 50s so don't think its getting too hot.

Also it does this all the time. As soon as i start playing. So its not like it gradually gets worse as it gets hotter.
 
OK so i thought i'd do my own stress test.

I ran Furmark v1.5 for 20 mins with no problems. This was set at 1680X1050 and with 4X MSAA. Now this hairy doughnut image is meant to look soft/slightly out of focus & some of the red veins are meant to split into two and then go back right? Max temp reported was 73°c.

I also had Rivatuner running. Max temp reported was 70°c

I also had GPU-Z running. Max temp reported was 63°c
 
Yiiiipppppeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)

Sorted the problem. :)

It turns out some asrock motherboards don't get on too well with newer ati cards. :eek:

After making sure i had the latest bios i still had corrupt graphics in certain games. :eek:

The answer was to disable pci-e downstream in the bios and all problems (so far) have gone away. :cool:
 
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