ATI RADEON X800 PRO PROBLEMS!

[werwolf]

I have the ATI Radeon X800 Pro and whenever I use the overdrive, as soon as I hit apply, my screen flickers and it looks like something out of the matrix and when I turn off overdrive it quits. Does anyone have any suggestions or answers?: confused:

Here are my specs if anyone needs to know:

Radeon X800 Pro
AMD Athlon XP 3200 Barton (slightly overclocked to 2.3)
1024 MB Corsair XMS Pro PC3200
Ultra 500 watt PSU
Western Digital 100 GB HDD
Viewsonic 19' VP912b Digital LCD (12ms response time)
Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Klipsch Promedia 5.1

I use the DVI output on the card for the monitor but I dont think that is the problem, maybe just a bad card.


Thanks

[Midknyte]

Overdrive basically overclocks your GPU. Try ATItool or one of the other ATI overclocking utilities instead. Your core is probably overheating if you are seeing artifacting.

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=162277

[werwolf]

I have used ati tool once before, I set the settings at 500/500, even though the card is capable of more and the temp skyrocketed to 80c, when using overdrive, it stays between 35c-40c depending on temp of the room, my case temps stay between 25-30c and CPU stays at about 40c on room air. I even increased the voltage and that didnt help. I would like to squeeze out a little more speed out of the card without burning it up, my wife would kill me...lol


thanks

[Someone Stupid]

What voltage did you increase? If you increased the AGP voltage (in the MB BIOS), you can cook a modern card quite easily that way. If you actually modded the GPU's voltage on the board itself, then I hope you had better than stock cooling - as those ATi chips can run rather hot when overvolted.

[AllGamer]

Originally posted by werwolf

Viewsonic 19' VP912b Digital LCD (12ms response time)


in the ATI control panel

try to toggle the different options for DVI output (LCD) yes even when you are using the VGA out/converter

that might help

:t

[werwolf]

I increased the voltage through the Mobo. (Gigabyte GA-7VT600) to +0.1. from auto on the AGP setting. I thought about getting the ATI cooler for the X800 series cards, the reviews said it worked pretty decent, but it does not look to hot. who knows?
Maybe it's time for a new mobo.



thanks

[Midknyte]

why the heck didn't you mention that before? geez. Increasing the AGP port voltage doesn't help. The video card pulls most of its power from the molex connector. The card has its own internal voltages, so you'd have to do a hard mod. Set the voltage back to auto or 1.5v.