Hmm..blown card?

[Frubbish]

*sigh*

My first try at overclocking and I think I toasted my Vid Card already...

Here's the specs:

Mobo: GA-8IPE1000 Pro
CPU: p4 2.4c
RAM: 2x matched Corsair XMS 256mb pc3200
Vid Card: ATI Radeon 9500 pro 128mb

All I did was go into bios and up my FSB 5mhz at a time with the starting point being at 200mhz. Once I got to 215 the system would no longer boot, so i clocked it back down to 210 and fired it up again. ran pcmark and it ran great, but about 10 seconds into the 3dmark2001 benchmark the system froze...rebooted, and when windows (XP) started up again it gave me a message saying my video card had a critical error. So I reboot again and reset bios to the fail-safe defaults and load it up again. And now it freezes up a few seconds into any game or benchmark i start up.
Is there any possible way that my vid card is NOT trashed? Reason I ask is because I would think if the card was trashed it would not load up games or start benchmarks at all.

[fafnir]

nope, proally some other problem


do a full reinstall of windows and ue only the lastest whql drivers from ati.com and see what happens

could really be anything if it just "freezes" and most likely not related to just the vga, even if thats whats giving ya errors, and also a complete re-install of the graphics drivers might also help

[BUBBLE]

I'm 99% sure it's not toasted but your vga drivers has been corrupted and basiclly don't try to push your vga card too much without proper cooling because it may get extrelely hot when ya playing games for lot of time. Basically it's driver corruption so try to reinstall drivers most probably the latest drivers will be ok. If it didn't work then try to install windows also. Which you all the best.

[Frubbish]

Here's the error message I get:

The driver ati2dvag for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.


I'll try reinstalling the drivers and/or windows if needed, but I think it's strange that overclocking the mobo a mere 100mhz would corrupt files.

[fafnir]

no, its not ur card that corrupted ur files, its ur board when its oc'ed and the hard drive/ hd controller couldn't deal with the OC anymore, of which when you're running a 3d program, if there were driver cache shuffles across the agp, and then the board went flaky, then one thing leads to another and then before you know it, she's pregnant (oh wait off topic) anyways, yeah, new drivers or a reinstall *should* help, and also may i recommend better cooling for ur card also?


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[n00bular]

Make sure you lock your agp/pci when you overclock your system

[Mac]

ive had trouble loading fail safe default on my old gigabyte board..

try to get off of 'fail safe defaults'

its a longshot, but hey try it and see if it works.