X1800XT Advice

pcknight · 29 May 2006 at 10:57

Is it normal for the boot screen to flash with a couple of lines, one green when windows starts with the X1800XT 256mb card? Once windows loads all is ok.

Anyone?

fullfat · 29 May 2006 at 11:10

yup. its something to do with drivers apparently. ive disabled all of the fancy stuff on xp, the shadows of windows and fading etc, also using old school skin too and i dont get it anymore. but a lot of people with the x18/1900 series gets the same 'glitch' on startup

Minstadave · 29 May 2006 at 11:37

monkeybutt said:
Is it normal for the boot screen to flash with a couple of lines, one green when windows starts with the X1800XT 256mb card? Once windows loads all is ok.

Anyone?

Yeah thats normal with the 6.4s, if you upgrade to the 6.5 cats it gets rid of it.

Street · 29 May 2006 at 12:09

Minstadave said:
Yeah thats normal with the 6.4s, if you upgrade to the 6.5 cats it gets rid of it.

I still got it with the 6.5s, also with the 6.4s and 6.5s if I tried to watch a movie or anything it turned off my monitor making me have to reboot!

Minstadave · 29 May 2006 at 12:16

Street said:
I still got it with the 6.5s, also with the 6.4s and 6.5s if I tried to watch a movie or anything it turned off my monitor making me have to reboot!

Which 6.5s are you using, I had problems with the betas, with it BSOD when I watched movies, but the official ones are working fine.

fullfat · 29 May 2006 at 12:20

it did it with the 6.3's too

Minstadave · 29 May 2006 at 12:24

fullfat said:
it did it with the 6.3's too

I never had it with the Omega 6.3s :confused:

pcknight · 29 May 2006 at 12:52

Not my graphics card, it is a mates. He has the latest Cat's and it is still happening.

Street · 29 May 2006 at 13:07

Its been the official 6.4s and 6.5s I've tried. The 6.4s got rid of the corruption at startup but brought in the crashing and the 6.5s did the same. I quickly switched back to the 6.3s... Probably going to have to wait until the 6.6s to update without problems!

Might have to give the Omega drivers a shot, see if they help things. Haven't used them for a while since they caused me problems with Battlefield 2.

helpimcrap · 29 May 2006 at 21:58

ive had the corrupted DFI graphics at the start since i had my card.... 6.3/6,4/6.5.

Minstadave · 29 May 2006 at 22:00

helpimcrap said:
ive had the corrupted DFI graphics at the start since i had my card.... 6.3/6,4/6.5.

BIOS logo or windows start screen?

The BIOS screen will always be dodgy, but the windows one is meant to be fixed, maybe they've not got it write for everyone yet, I have never seen it :confused:

helpimcrap · 29 May 2006 at 22:01

the bios screen.

Minstadave · 29 May 2006 at 22:02

helpimcrap said:
the bios screen.

I think everyone gets that, nothing to be done about it, just turn off the logo and forget about it

sablabra · 29 May 2006 at 22:04

Minstadave said:
I think everyone gets that, nothing to be done about it, just turn off the logo and forget about it

It's only a matter of updating to the most recent bios.

(for the mobo, that is)

Minstadave · 29 May 2006 at 22:08

sablabra said:
It's only a matter of updating to the most recent bios. (for the mobo, that is)

Hadn't heard that, seems strange that would fix it :confused:

TALON1973 · 29 May 2006 at 22:59

Minstadave said:
Hadn't heard that, seems strange that would fix it

yeah that sorted the bios screen corruption for me to. just updated my mobo drivers. well the damn original mobo bios were out before the x1800 came out. so must have been some issues with it

fullfat · 29 May 2006 at 23:09

my bios was fine with the 6.3's, just before you got into windows. i was using the ones from ati's site, dont use omega's anymore.

sablabra · 30 May 2006 at 07:09

Minstadave said:
Hadn't heard that, seems strange that would fix it

Why would that seem strange? Well, it DOES fix it! IMO! :eek:

Vegeta · 30 May 2006 at 09:07

It seems strange like fixing a headache by rubbing on clearsil to wash your face lol.

sablabra · 30 May 2006 at 16:00

Vegeta said:
It seems strange like fixing a headache by rubbing on clearsil to wash your face lol.

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