Graphical corruption on a Radeon 9700Pro

[pope24]

I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro which was working fine until a month or so ago. In games like Far Cry it displayed minor graphical corruption including black lines appearing in the sky and in internal areas. Now it has taken to displaying lines (not just black) in Command and Conquer Generals, a game which ran perfectly before. I have also seen minor graphical issues in Rainbow Six Raven shield.

Is there any tool out there that I would be able to use to determine if the card is re cause of this or if it is coming from another part of my system.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Specs:
P4 3GHz underclocked to 2.8GHz
MSI Motherboard Intel 865 chipset (with latest bios and drivers
1GB DDR400 (2 x 512 in dual channel configuration)
Gigabyte Radeon Pro 128MB (with latest ATI drivers)

 

[ski]

Make sure that the card is fully seated, its cooling fan is running, and its heatsink is not clogged with dust.

If those are ok, then uninstall the previous drivers in Safe mode, and install the latest drivers.

If no luck, then install older drivers.

If still no good, then install another card.
If it works ok, then the 9700 may be bad.

 

[Wiggy911]

You are not alone with having problems with Gigabyte cards. My 9800 pro started glitching last month just as the weather was getting warmer. Its ok at the moment but the room is relatively cool.

I got corruption in 2d and 3d. I am about to re-seat the card and clean out any dust. Then I will uninstall drivers and update both the motherborad Hyperion 4in1 drivers and install the latest gigabyte supplied display drivers.

Unfortunately for me, I have just noticed that the VGA fan sounds laboured. My mates Gigabyte 9800 pro's VGA fan started screeching at him so he replaced heatsink and fan with a double heatsink and fan at

http://www.quietpc.com.

He has not had any trouble at all with his card since. This suggests that Gigabyte cards are "weak". My next card will be ASUS or Hercules I think. I dont fancy the idea of the NVIDIA 6800 needing TWO! power connectors.

Oh well, enough rambling!

Wiggy.