Okay, I've got a puzzler from what I can tell.
I got a 9800 XT to replace a bad 9800 PRO that I had, the die chipped on the corner, so I now have a OEM 9800 XT with the stock copper cooler on it. The temps hang at around 66C at idle, and around 71C at full load. This seems quite high to me, basing this off of other ATI cards I have owned. I don't know if this is related to my problem, but it could.
Twice now my screen has garbled on me, like a one pixel high line across the screen, with a ranbow of colors, all the way up and down the screen, so nothing can be seen at all. I reboot, and it was fine. Second time happened a few hours later, after I was done gaming playing AAO (1 hour after). I got up and walked out the door for a minute, came back inside, and found the Windows XP screensaver on, but locked up, showing 3 of the windows XP logos, and a few lines that were white, with a little color variation, running straight across but not all the way, kinda randomly placed. Rebooted again, and the system was fine, no probs at all gaming as of yet. I've been checking the temp of the card often, hangs around 67C most of the time at idle, and a few degrees higher at load. This is stumping me right now, because I don't know if 66C is safe for this card at idle, or if there is a problem with the driver or something, its a brand new never used card. Here are my specs and conditions at the time of error.
System:
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (nForce2 Ultra 400)
AMD 2500+ silent boost cooled
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
2x512 Kingston HyperX DDR4000
Memorex CD Writer
Memorex DVD Burner
Linksys Wireless-G
Maxtor 80GB ATA133 Drive
Card Conditions:
Ambient Temp: 72-80F
Last checked temp for both instances: 67C, 68C
OverDrive: Off
VPU Recover: On
Catalyst 6.2 Driver w/Control Center
nVIDIA Unified Mainboard Driver Package 5.10
Award BIOS 1007
Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Any help on this issue is welcome, as well as anyone else having a similar problem with this with the R/V350 or R/V360 Cores, please post.
I got a 9800 XT to replace a bad 9800 PRO that I had, the die chipped on the corner, so I now have a OEM 9800 XT with the stock copper cooler on it. The temps hang at around 66C at idle, and around 71C at full load. This seems quite high to me, basing this off of other ATI cards I have owned. I don't know if this is related to my problem, but it could.
Twice now my screen has garbled on me, like a one pixel high line across the screen, with a ranbow of colors, all the way up and down the screen, so nothing can be seen at all. I reboot, and it was fine. Second time happened a few hours later, after I was done gaming playing AAO (1 hour after). I got up and walked out the door for a minute, came back inside, and found the Windows XP screensaver on, but locked up, showing 3 of the windows XP logos, and a few lines that were white, with a little color variation, running straight across but not all the way, kinda randomly placed. Rebooted again, and the system was fine, no probs at all gaming as of yet. I've been checking the temp of the card often, hangs around 67C most of the time at idle, and a few degrees higher at load. This is stumping me right now, because I don't know if 66C is safe for this card at idle, or if there is a problem with the driver or something, its a brand new never used card. Here are my specs and conditions at the time of error.
System:
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (nForce2 Ultra 400)
AMD 2500+ silent boost cooled
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
2x512 Kingston HyperX DDR4000
Memorex CD Writer
Memorex DVD Burner
Linksys Wireless-G
Maxtor 80GB ATA133 Drive
Card Conditions:
Ambient Temp: 72-80F
Last checked temp for both instances: 67C, 68C
OverDrive: Off
VPU Recover: On
Catalyst 6.2 Driver w/Control Center
nVIDIA Unified Mainboard Driver Package 5.10
Award BIOS 1007
Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Any help on this issue is welcome, as well as anyone else having a similar problem with this with the R/V350 or R/V360 Cores, please post.