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I asked the seller, and he said he never flashed the card, so the BIOS can't be causing the problems.

I haven't tried the 9800 thing, when I saw it in omega I actually thought it was some kind of error or that it always offered that no matter what card you actually had (I didn't know a 9500 could become a 9800). I've been to all over the control panel/control center, including smartgart, and...

I reinstalled my old card and it seems like the checkerboard/stripes and artifacts are gone. I don't see anything bad in the overlays, games, atitool's cube or in 3dmark. It's not really comparable hardware-wise though, it's a radeon 7000, but the problems are gone. Both are AGP. 7000 4x agp...

Aw man, I tried a 520watt OCZ ModStream, +3.3v=28A, +5v=52A, +12v=28A and the problem is still the same. That has to be enough power, has to be, uhm, right?

The fan is spinning and it also seems to be installed securely. Just looking at the card, it doesn't seem like anything is missing, nothing seems obviously broken. The power supply is a RD-350W RAIDMAX. +3.3v=16A, +5v=25A, +12v=14A

It actually wasn't sold as stock, it was run as a 9700 by the previous owner for those two years (They sent me the omega drivers they were using for the softmod). Personally though, I'd be happy if I could just get the card to run as a problem-free 9500.

I recently bought a used radeon 9500 and I can not get rid of artifacts + checkerboarding or stripes. Artifacts appear in overlays. In 3D games I get checkerboard at lower resolutions and either solid bands or groups of strips at higher resolutions. With some drivers I get artifacts in the...