Hardware Issues With ATI Catalyst 3.8 - Update #2
Trik
monitor loss would set my upgrade path back about a year. But from what I read it was just one guy, so it may be that his monitor was gonna die no matter what.
Sparkesy
I love it at times like these it reminds me of all those ATI lovers that bitched at me for buying a 5800 and about the problems nVidia had with the fan not turning on with a screen saver. Ah just goes to show ATI still haven't really learned about driver quality either.
neo-n
Oh please.. This only affects VERY few cards. These cards have been heavily overclocked or bios hacked so its the owners own fault. ATI has a long way to go before it catches up with the nightmare that was the 5800, a LONG way.
redsolar
BetrayerX check your DDC checkbox in the ATi control panel. Most likely the cause of it using 60Hz instead of 75 Hz (uncheck the box).
SonicSam
My card 9700 has been overheating during games since the version prior to 3.8, to play a game like JKII for longer than 15mins before crashing my PC (as it did before 3.8) or bringing up the VPU Recover errors (as is does now) I have to open up the case and blast a desk fan into it. I have tried everything software wise and given the card as much space as poss in the case for air flow apart from adding some big F'off noisy fans inside the case to stop it overheating but nothing seems to help. It certainly used to work fine a few drivers ago.
neo-n
Sounds like a heatsink problem. Could try renewing the thermal grease or fitting a vantec iceberq4. They are great for keeping a raddy cool.
neo-n
The vantec is copper and cools a 9800 pro very well. According to my thermal probe its about 38c idle and 45c under load.
thomas997
A refresh rate of 60 should not damage your monitor no matter what resolution you put it on.. Its only if its really jacking up the refresh rate to like 115 at high res it could damage the monitor.. but even my 5yr old monitor says "out of scan range" when I set the res too high
redsolar
No Problem :).
