ATI Tool just busted my computer!?

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frankyk

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I loaded up ATI Tool to just look at it and I clicked up on a few things but not wanting to change anything, I hit 'set default.'

right when i hit 'set default' my computer screen goes blank and when i power off and restart, the screen stays blank and the video card keeps running as if the computer can't load up the bios or something

what happened???
 
A glitch in the matrix...

Power it off by either holding down the power button for 5 seconds, or flipping the power switch on the rear of the PSU (or unplugging the power cord). Power it back up and hopefully you'll be ok.

This is the first time in a couple of years I've heard of ATITool causing any 'BAD' problems for anyone. Waaay back when it was first released I do recall some people cooking their cards by using it's 'find max overclock' feature.
 
i tried turning the computer off, took out the power cord and such but when i turn it back on, the screen is still blank
 
You may have ruined your gpu.. thats a risk you take when you mess with your card. :rolleyes:
 
i don't think it's passing BIOS at all. i turn on the computer, video card fan turns on but nothing else works and it doesn't stabilize when bios loads up (i.e. bios isn't loading up)
all of this done because i hit 'load defaults' of some sort.
 
Find a spare card/onboard? and remove your vid card. If the card is the problem this should let you get back into windows, where you can uninstall ATI Tool. Then put your 1800XT back in and pray.......
 
Standpoint said:
Find a spare card/onboard? and remove your vid card. If the card is the problem this should let you get back into windows, where you can uninstall ATI Tool. Then put your 1800XT back in and pray.......
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Atitool changes are made when atitool is loaded during windows startup... If his computer is showing no video during post, then there is something wrong with the card.
I think he may have killed his video card.
 
apparently i downloaded the wrong ati tool, one that doesn't support ATI x1800XT and when i hit 'default' the clock and speed was both at 0, so the graphics card just went off or something.

basically i had to reset my CMOS settings because my RAM's timing doesn't jibe well with my motherboard and then configure it with backup RAM, put it back in and then the graphics card worked.

i think hitting default or something screwed up my settings or something.

it works!
 
atitool is temporary only in software...

There's no way you can change your setting permanently
 
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