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Horrible Corruption

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SidewinderX

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Well,

I think I got myself fairly well screwed, but maybe you guys can think of soemthing that I haven't...

I have a Sapphire 9600 Pro Atlantis 128MB video card (etrontech 2.8ns ram)
I tried flashing the BIOS ( i have done it before, no problems)....and it didn't work out.

Corruption everywhere, even on the boot up screen... could't see bios or anyhting.


So I went booted from the floppy with the default bios on it, and without seeing the screen at all, reloaded the default BIOS to the card.

And now boot screen is fine and everhyting, and it'll boot into safe mode perfectly.

However, when I try to boot into normal windows (Win2k Pro), it seems fine until it load the desktop, then i get 5 or 6 bands of corruption on a black sceen. (the bands are either blue or reddish...don't think that matter though..)

That lead me to believe it was a driver issue. So I booted into safe mode, and uninstalled the drivers and.....nothing changed.


So then I tried a few thigns to fix it and I know that...
a) It is properly seated in the slot
b) the fan is still running
c)messing with the jumpers didn't help at all.


So I've contacted sapphire's tech support (which is not the most helpful), and I'm set up to get RMA it if I need to....I was jsut hopeing maybe one of ya'll could think of soemthing I haven't, and magically fix it.


Thanks!
 
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