Radeon 9800 Pro, dying or overheating?

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Liddan

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Radeon 9800 Pro, 3 years old.
I just sold my old computer to a friend and he started to get problems with display corruption.
It only happens for a sec then it is gone. It is seen in some games while loading a new map, as soon as the map has loaded it is gone. Could it be overheating or is it dying?

Sadly I dont have a camera, but I found a picture on google that looks very similar.
http://www.myfrag.net/problem.jpg But instead of yellow it is red.

If it is overheating I will get a Zalman VF700-Cu for it.

If it is dying I will buy him a new graphic card, what ATi graphic card today has similar performance to a Radeon 9800 Pro?

Thanks for your time.
 
That does not look like overheating, overheating typically causes pixilation immediatly. I would say that either the card is dying or you need a new psu.

Cooter

edit or you can test the overheating method by putting a floor fan by the card to blow a ton of cool air on it and see if htat helps.
 
looks like either dying or p/s as well... Not the whole card going bad necessarily - it could just be a few pipelines, or some of them aren't getting sufficient power. I used to get that every once and awhile on a 9800se that I modded to a pro (unlocked 4 extra pipelines).
 
If it is dying I will buy him a new graphic card, what ATi graphic card today has similar performance to a Radeon 9800 Pro?
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A GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP. But they're rare.
 
ElMoIsEviL said:
A GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP. But they're rare.
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A good choice.

The GT would beat out the 9800 Pro, and even edge out the 9800 XT.
 
Hey,

I have an old 9800pro, mine has a very similar problem.

Instead of having the yellow/red corrupion, I get Green ;)

It happens intermittently, and normally wont go away until I power off for a long time.
However I found the following helped(maybe even stopped the problem):

* Use ATI Tray tools to underclock the memory/GPU by about 10%
* Theres an option in XP under the graphics settings ---> troubleshoot, something like "write enabling"...turn this off.

Hope this helps...
 
BrainDanceR said:
* Use ATI Tray tools to underclock the memory/GPU by about 10%
* Theres an option in XP under the graphics settings ---> troubleshoot, something like "write enabling"...turn this off.

Hope this helps...
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Will try it, thanks.

ElMoIsEviL said:
A GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP. But they're rare.
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As you say, it is rare. Are there any alternatives?
 
They aren't that rare, check ebay, ~80-90 will get you one. The 6600GT is a good card and is a good deal faster then the 9800pro/xt. You should be able to make that problem go away, sounds like heating/drivers.
 
Liddan said:
Radeon 9800 Pro, 3 years old.
I just sold my old computer to a friend and he started to get problems with display corruption.
It only happens for a sec then it is gone. It is seen in some games while loading a new map, as soon as the map has loaded it is gone. Could it be overheating or is it dying?
*snip*

Thanks for your time.
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Used to have a 9800 pro256 that had the same prop, turned out to be a weak molex conector
that powered the card (moving it+reboot would solve the problem)
I would suggest trying another plug(molex) from the psu and see if that fixes it.
Also make sure the gpu fan is not locked up or laying on the bottom of the case(common
problem for 9800 refrence coolers)
if it does turn out to be a dead card, check out the "hot deal on ati AGP cards" thread
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1070975
 
Thats what my gf2mx started doing before it died. It started doing it in every now and then in games. Then it started doing it to my desktop when the nvidia drivers loaded so I used the default windows driver. Then it started as soon as I turned my comp on. Then I broke it in half and threw it in the trash. And then..... I got a ti4200 and wasnt impressed so now im trying out ati and loving it so far... And then.... :eek:
 
I would offer you my old 9800, but I kinda turned the GPU into a keychain, I went so well with the busted up XP2000 I got (customer gave it to me when I worked at a computer shop, he forked over well over $300 for it but wouldn't pay the extra $30 for me to put it in, and we all know how fragile cores are, esp when someone puts the heatsink on backwards).

Anyway, if its just for a second, I wouldn't worry about it till it dies, and you can find a similar performing card pretty cheap these days, heck 9800's are on ebay all the time.
 
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