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BlinD87

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Ok well this morning I installed a OC program for the 9600 some radeon tweak. Anyway I upped it to what some people had said was stable and went to open 3dmark it froze. So I restarted and had no video. So I pulled the card and threw my old ATI rage 2mb card in and started up. Super fragmentation. So I uninstalled the tweak and restarted and video is fien on my 2x rage. But I cant get video on my 9600 pro. Can anyone help me out? :(
 
Look at your card, make sure that doesnt smell burnt. ALWAY increase in increments, you dont know what kind of cooling, airflow other people have. I have hard time pulling past 430/390 on my 9800XT, but most can get 460/420. It doenst sound good from what you said. Was it artifacting badly during 3dmark??
 
It didnt load 3d mark. The computer immediatly locked up and the monitor went black. So it never actually went under load. As far as the card goes it shows no signs or scent of it being burnt. I was having trouble before installing the card with getting the video card to show video prior to the OC incident. Any ideas?
 
Could you have shorted your card out?

Remember the more you OC the more juice you need, Perhaps your card got a spike from trying to pull more juice? :(
 
A short could be possible. I have tried cmos already. Today I dont have work so I'm gonna spend a good while tinkering with it to see if I can get it to work. I honestly think the card is fine. I just think its part of how it was before about being hard to install the card. Because I uninstalled drivers/tweaks everything after that happened.
 
No, not necessarily. If all the fans need is power, the GPU is still conducive to electricity and the fans would continue to spin. But if the GPU controls the fans, they may not.
 
HRM.. ic.. Well this sucks lol. Took me like 5 hours to even get this thing installed in the first place. Now I gotta do it again and hope that the card isnt fubar.
 
how high did you try to set the clocks? Also, did you reformat when going form your old video card to your new one?
 
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