ATI 9800

[cludgie]

A while back I had a issue with a ATI radion 9800 video card, due to other commitments in my life I never had much time to spend on it. The machine now has a different card in it, so I really don’t care about it, however I would like to know if anyone else has had a similar problem.

The card installed ok, drivers installed ok. However starting a game, even sometimes in windows (I presume when the card heated up) would result in the following error:

VPU recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphic driver commands

I used several different revisions of drivers, windows was reinstalled from scratch to remove any trace of old drivers. I upgraded the psu from 300w to 460w. changed the agp from 8x to 4x in the bios. flashed the bios with a new version.

Nothing would work…..

The system was
P4vt8+ (via chip set)
2.8ghz cpu
1gb Ram
2 x 80mm case fans (keep it nice and cool)
460w PSU

No matter what I changed I could not the it working.
Any ideas what was wrong? (was the card duff?)

Its all history now, but I would like to know if there was something I missed…

Cheers.
M

[mac124]

Yeah i see that lots, but then i do overclock my gfx cards some times, well quite alot actually, ok, ok all the time. Though it is mostly heat related so this is usually over come by reseating the stock heatsink with better thermal compound or fitting a better cooler, though if you push the overclock too far no amount of cooling will be good enough.

[Gregoroth]

I have a HIS Radeon 9800 Pro overclocked to XT speeds and never had a problem. Apparently the core can be overclocked to 450Mhz, can't remember what memory speeds though.

Sounds like you had a faulty card presuming your cooling was adequate. You may have got one that came with the cooler not in full contact with the core.

Did you purchase it from new or get it second hand?

[cludgie]

The card was not over clocked; I don’t think there was a heat issue with the system itself. It’s been a very stable system until I added it. (and has been ever since i removed it)

I see it has been a common problem for people, since I have tried pretty much everything I found out about it, I just put it down to a faulty card. Just wanted to ask incase there was some obscure fix…. You never know

I may remove the heatsink, add some arctic silver reseat it. nothing to lose.

Cheers,
M

[Belso]

http://www.foxpop.com/imre/2005/vpur...purecover.html

[Mighty_Jah]

Hate ATI's but nice help people.... :wink:

get a ge-Bod...dude...no Hass...and..clock good-o


regards Mighty... :wink:

[cludgie]

Excellent guys thank you!

I have seen a very similar page, may have been the same one. That’s where I got most my original ideas. To be honest I probably won’t spend much more time on it. Not worth the hastle. It’s an old card time for an upgrade… (stay with nvidia)

Gonna offer the card to a friend, if it works on there system they can have it..