Problems With (i Think) Radeon Card...

xioutlawix

<div class="IPBDescription">...</div> Don't know if anyone else has had this happen.

I'm running windows xp pro, with service pack 1, have all the latest critical updates.

Also using a radeon 9700 pro, the latest catalyst 3.2's, and the latest control panel.

For some reason lately, in the middle of playing a game of CS or whatever, sometimes the monitor will just turn off, and say "out of range".
Other times just turn off and say nothing.
Other times just freeze the whole comp.

I went ahead and reformatted and reinstalled xp.
All to no avail.
Figured I'd post here as a last attempt to see if anyone else has been having any sort of similar trouble.
Thanks in advance

DY357LX

Yeah i've got similar problems on my 9000 Pro.
Sometimes i'll try to launch a game and the screen will
just go black and i'm forced to restart my comp.
I think it might be something to do with old references
to Nvidia somewhere but i've deleted them all and even
cleaner my registry.

You say you've completely formated your system and it
still happpens? Must be the Catalyst 3.2's then <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

xioutlawix

Must be, I don't recall ever having had these problems with the 3.1's.

Scythe

When your monitor says "Out of range" that means that your computer is trying to get it to run outside of it's abilities. Like going over it's max res or refresh rate for a given res. Most monitors won't like going above 85Hz at 1024x768. A great little program I found when I was tring to get my Geforce 2 GTS to run 85Hz all the time was <a href='http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/' target='_blank'>RefreshForce</a>. It's a run-once thing that writes some stuff to the regestry. This changes the default value of 60Hz for XP to the max your monitor can safely handle for all resoultions.

I have verified that this works under XP SP1 with an ATI Radeon 9700 pro running the latest catalyst drivers.

Have fun!

--Scythe--

Talesin

I've had that happen as well, usually when changing between resolutions frequently. Just drops to black, and won't come back. Only happens once in a great while, and normally when I'm playing with video card tweaks. Er.. on an R9000 Pro. Haven't seen the same on the R9500 Pro, but I'll keep an eye out.

Also.. the Cat3.2 drivers *do* fix a lot of games, but they introduce rendering errors in some programs like Maya, and intermittent ones in GtkRadiant. I've rolled back to 3.1 until 3.3 comes out, as the only real problem with them are a very few noted bugs, and some weirdness (correctable via OS workaround, scaling down accelleration by one click) with Freelancer.

xioutlawix

Update: (in case anyone's interested)

It was in fact the catalyst 3.2's that did it.
When I had the 3.2's installed, half life or any mod would freeze randomly (about 5 minutes into the game), also, if I left to go change something under the controls or multiplayer options and re-entered game, it would just go black and not come back.

Went back to the 3.1's, and have perfect functionality again. Just thought anyone might wanna know in case they've been having similar problems.

DY357LX

<!--QuoteBegin--xioutlawix+Apr 5 2003, 06:22 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (xioutlawix @ Apr 5 2003, 06:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Update: (in case anyone's interested)

It was in fact the catalyst 3.2's that did it.
When I had the 3.2's installed, half life or any mod would freeze randomly (about 5 minutes into the game), also, if I left to go change something under the controls or multiplayer options and re-entered game, it would just go black and not come back.

Went back to the 3.1's, and have perfect functionality again. Just thought anyone might wanna know in case they've been having similar problems. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
How did you go back to the 3.1 set?
Can you just install 3.1 over 3.2 or do you have to uninstall
the 3.2 set first?
How did you do it because i'm considering using 3.1

xioutlawix

I'm using windows xp pro w/ sp1, but I'm sure all other os's will allow you to do the following. Just go into start menu / control panel / add or remove programs.

You should see two things ati related you can remove, the display adapters or whatever they're called, and the control panels.
On ati's site you can search through their drivers and go through the archived ones to get the catalyst 3.1's and the appropriate version of their control panels.

That_Annoying_Kid

perhaps this should be in tech support?
and you guys should feel lucky you have good graphics cards
me am stuck w/ factory installed one <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

darrenjm

I have a 9700 Pro, and the only problem I have is pressing escape to go to menu when using Open Gl. My screen turns black and I havve to shut down improperly. BTW, anyone have a roblem starting up after inpropper shutdow? My computer goes "Beeep, beep-beep-beep, beep" and my monitor acts as if it is not plugged in (orange light)

Talesin

If I'm not mistaken, that's the beepcode for 'CPU Damage Inherent'/'No CPU Found'. Unless it's backward from how I read it, in which case it's 'No Memory Detected'.