X1900XT Still problems

AnastieByte · 13 Mar 2006 at 17:56

After 2 days I thought some tweaking had stopped this happening. I start PC and it works fine for a few minutes at desktop then graphic glitches and I need to restart. Then its fine even in high intensity games.
Then again it happened. I think its the card.
Thoughts?

welshtom · 13 Mar 2006 at 17:57

mine has a strange coldbug below say 25 degrees. If its colder than that i get a garbled screen,

i literally have to keep restarting every morning until it warms up, its most perculiar.

Tom

AnastieByte · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:53

Anyone else?

Pulsedriver · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:54

What makes are your cards?

speeduk · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:00

Cold bugs are due to the resistors letting too much voltage through due to the better conductivity of materials used at lower temperatures.

Most probably a manufacturing error or dodgy resistors or caps.

AnastieByte · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:05

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT

welshtom · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:08

AnastieByte · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:27

Can anyone from O/C help out here? Just a thought

welshtom · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:27

from who?

AnastieByte · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:11

Overclockers. Just woundered if anyone would offer any further advice.

Id rather not return it but feel there is a fault :confused:

welshtom · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:12

well, it seems we are the only ones mate

.

its a weird problem thats for sure.

Tom

FreeStream · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:48

Mines okay down to 10C :confused:

Thats what ATi Tool reports as my lowest ever Ambient Temp, 18C Core, thats at 2D clocks and 35% fan speed :confused:

Weird. Mines a Sapp X1900XT too.

Pulsedriver · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:51

Might be a bad batch...

Although im not gonna get a Sapphire one now lol

Jokester · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:55

I hope these things don't have a cold bug

.

Jokester

Deleted member 651465 · 13 Mar 2006 at 21:00

If it really is this faulty then i'm sure you got a great case for an RMA

welshtom · 13 Mar 2006 at 21:03

Concorde Rules said:
Mines okay down to 10C Thats what ATi Tool reports as my lowest ever Ambient Temp, 18C Core, thats at 2D clocks and 35% fan speed

Weird. Mines a Sapp X1900XT too.

jeez you in the arctic !!!!

Zephyrus · 13 Mar 2006 at 21:06

welshtom said:
i literally have to keep restarting every morning until it warms up, its most perculiar.

Tom

Reminds me of my old Ford Capri.

FreeStream · 13 Mar 2006 at 22:18

welshtom said:
jeez you in the arctic !!!!

Nope, no heating in here, so temps drop during the night... imagine if I kept the door open

Conc

AnastieByte · 14 Mar 2006 at 07:41

I have decided to contact overclockers direct. Sadly I cannot find my invoice or order number. I hope their record keeping is better than mine

FrankJH · 14 Mar 2006 at 08:17

I have a weird 1900XT also, cant think of the actual brand though

It loads the initial bios screen, and then for the whole "windows loading" section Dell 2005 states " no signal" until the blue "desktop" appears.

From then on it runs ok. This does seem to be a cold boot issue, on restarts its perfectly ok. Strange huh?

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X1900XT Still problems

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