Gonged the card?

[Scrawflid]

X800gto 16 fresh install. Everything else working OK. Tried 3dmark 05 & far cry and getting the jitters. Gets so far in and then starts juddering with flickering black striping, worse when system oc'd but happens even on stock everything. Is it dead or anyone got any ideas?
Running with opty 144, 1gig ram.

 

[Goksly]

sounds like its overheating - is the fan spinning?

 

[Scrawflid]

Idle temp 40, load hard to tell but around 48 just after stopping 3dmark.

 

[Scrawflid]

Just put it through atitool. Temp was up to 60 at one point. Set the fan speed to 100% without any effect, it definitely is spinning right though. Case is centurion with two 120mm pushnpull so should be OK, temp on everything else is OK. If this is the problem, is it a fault with the card, in other words can I return it?

 

[Goksly]

Could be a memory problem then I guess if ATI Tool doesnt mess up....
Can you try any other games or try it in another PC? Sounds messed up tbh - so if you cant I would just return it. Something is amiss

 

[Scrawflid]

Tried ATITool and the temp shot to 60 quicker than I could shut the thing down, it then killed my machine for 5mins. I've also tried my wife's hairdryer on cool shot, but the same happens, it just takes longer. BTW, should the fan be drawing air in towards the gpu/HS and not out?

 

[Cold_And_Miserable]

I have an x800 and it has similar trouble with black outlines/shapes and flickering but usually only in Quake 4. The trouble only started on my card which is 10 months old when I changed processor to an opteron if remember correctly. The opteron was shortlived but I still have the troubles. Does anyone else think there could be a link between x800 cards failing and having an opteron?

 

[james.miller]

doubt it. tbh almost everybody who has one has an opteron as well lol.

scrawflid 60c should be fine on the core mate. these things are good for 90c. Mine tops out at about 77c @ 535/615. try re-installing the drivers.

 

[UOcUK Poopscoop]

Make sure Farcry is patched up for a start, it had known issues such as this before it was patched.

 

[Scrawflid]

Reinstalled catalyst from the latest PCZ mag disc. No difference. Haven't tried any other games yet, but 3dMark05 stutters after 20secs and the frame rate never gets over 20, and now and then there's flickers on the desktop. When I reran ATITool it does the same, locks up and dies for 5minutes saying there's a serious hardware failure or something like that. If it's definitiely not the heat then I've got a spot of bother I guess.

 

[Scrawflid]

I ran 3dmark05 today after a night running prime95 (stable). It gets through the first one OK, then when the loading screen comes up for the green ball thing the screen goes entirely black. Once the green thing starts again the screen intermittently goes black. Interestingly, when the display comes back, the action has moved on by the amount of time the screen was black, so if the screen blanks out at 50secs for 5secs, when it comes back on the action is at 55secs, so it's not hanging as such. Now I'm confused.