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Messiah
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System is a P4 2.53mhz (no OC), a stable Asus P4S8X, Windows XP Pro w/ SP1, DirectX 9 Final, latest Catalyst 3.0 build and an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB.
Installed the latest build of PowerStrip 3.30 (registered), inital default core read of 324.50 and deafult mem read of 310. Played around with various combinations of overclocks to both and found 345 core/345 mem to be the ceiling at which the display corrupted even in Windows (had to reboot and then reinstall PowerStrip to even set back to adapter defaults) and best OC seemed to be 335 core/315 mem w/ no artifacting in 3DMark 2001 or games.
Tried installing the Rage3D Tweak 3.7 to try some of those settings as well. Had some issues (artifacting and display corruptions) occur, I quit out of the Rage3D Tweak and launched PowerStrip, set the clock and mem back to default speeds and rebooted. Default core now shows in both PowerStrip and Rage3D Tweak as 324 and the default mem reads as 310.50. Any attempt to tweak the clock and/or mem above the default ends up in either a sync error with monitor that does not recover (requires system reset) or a screen of vertical multi-colored lines that do not recover (also requires system reset). I've tried uninstalling Rage3D Tweak 3.7 and leaving only PowerStrip, but I still can't up the core and/or mem without the sync error (and screen garbage) or vertical lines. Uninstalled and reinstalled PowerStrip and still no go.
Still getting 3DMark score of 13500's with the 'new' default core and mem of 344/310.50 and I don't really care now if I can overclock again, but, what the hell did I do? Did I damage the card, the vidRAM or the BIOS chip?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not thrilled with the idea that I might have damaged a $400 card.
Thanks,
Messiah
Installed the latest build of PowerStrip 3.30 (registered), inital default core read of 324.50 and deafult mem read of 310. Played around with various combinations of overclocks to both and found 345 core/345 mem to be the ceiling at which the display corrupted even in Windows (had to reboot and then reinstall PowerStrip to even set back to adapter defaults) and best OC seemed to be 335 core/315 mem w/ no artifacting in 3DMark 2001 or games.
Tried installing the Rage3D Tweak 3.7 to try some of those settings as well. Had some issues (artifacting and display corruptions) occur, I quit out of the Rage3D Tweak and launched PowerStrip, set the clock and mem back to default speeds and rebooted. Default core now shows in both PowerStrip and Rage3D Tweak as 324 and the default mem reads as 310.50. Any attempt to tweak the clock and/or mem above the default ends up in either a sync error with monitor that does not recover (requires system reset) or a screen of vertical multi-colored lines that do not recover (also requires system reset). I've tried uninstalling Rage3D Tweak 3.7 and leaving only PowerStrip, but I still can't up the core and/or mem without the sync error (and screen garbage) or vertical lines. Uninstalled and reinstalled PowerStrip and still no go.
Still getting 3DMark score of 13500's with the 'new' default core and mem of 344/310.50 and I don't really care now if I can overclock again, but, what the hell did I do? Did I damage the card, the vidRAM or the BIOS chip?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not thrilled with the idea that I might have damaged a $400 card.
Thanks,
Messiah