Having major video card problems

[Pete McNeal]

I recently set up a new PC with a MSI 9800 pro and everything was running fine. I then flashed the card's bios to the proper XT bios (following Chai's instructions: http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=92&pgno=1). Everything seemed to be running smoothly after the flash and the reboot.

After the initial success worked smoothly (tested doom3 and it worked fine), I went to the next step and upped the card's core and memory using ATI tool, after which I started having problems. My video display became all screwed up to the point where I couldn't recognize anything on the screen, even after rebooting. When I uninstall the drivers and reboot, the display works again under generic windows video drivers. I have tried to reinstall all different kinds of drivers (catalyst, omega, MSI) but have had no luck. I also used drive cleaner before every driver reinstall and made sure to clock the core and memory back to default settings.

After trying all this, I decided to revert back to my original bios (made a backup before I flashed the new). However, I'm still having the same exact problems and cannot get the video card to work with any of the drivers I install. Screen continues to flash colors and everything is unrecognizable. Only works in safe mode or when video drivers are not installed.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? I don't understand why these problems would still persist with the original bios flashed. Could there be any way that the drivers are still giving instructions to the card to up the core and memory to the unstable levels? If so, are there other ways of reverting back to default settings? I would really appreciate any help in getting this problem resolved.

Thanks!

 

[Xenozx]

what your explaining sounds like

1.) maybe your resolution is set too high

2.) somehow some where its keeping track of the core/mem settings that are way to high and causeing a problem too. How did you overclock? did you use a third party program and if so which one? go into it and downclock everything to your normal pro levels.

check your fan, make sure it hasnt stopped spinning.

got a second computer you can try it in? if you do that will tell you wether its drivers or the card. If you put it in the new computer and everything is fine, its something software wise on the machine, and you might even need to reformat. i would go from there, i hope this helps.

 

[Pete McNeal]

The only problem is I tried to do a complete fresh reinstall of windows on a different hard drive and it still comes up with the same problems. Do ATI Tool and other o/cing packages change the o/cing settings of the physical card? Because after a clean windows install wouldn't the settings be changed back to default automatically?

Thanks.

 

[HighwayAssassins]

The only problem is I tried to do a complete fresh reinstall of windows on a different hard drive and it still comes up with the same problems. Do ATI Tool and other o/cing packages change the o/cing settings of the physical card? Because after a clean windows install wouldn't the settings be changed back to default automatically?

Thanks.

ATi tool wont overclock it on the actual card, meaning when you reinstall windows your card will be at the default clock speeds.

 

[Pete McNeal]

That's what I'm saying. I just find it weird that the card is still malfunctioning after being put on a fresh XP install. I didn't alter the voltage or anything on the card, so I don't see how it could have possibly gotten screwed up. The only answer I can come up with is that the onboard video flashed bios is corrupt, but I am using the original backup that saved onto a floppy right before the flash update.

Anyone have any clue as to how the card is screwed up onboard?