Recent content by BeakerChem

Lol. He probably didn't know the card was dying at the time. I think these things are all or nothing most of the time with ths size of the circuitry on them. And it is at the end of its 3 year warranty, which probably means the lifetime of the card is 3 years right? Did you pay close to full...

Unfortunately, an aftermarket heatsink voids your 3 year warranty with ATI. And I doubt they would be very understanding of a card with no heatsink appearing within 15 days of the end of the warranty. Also not in your favor, every RMA I have had required a proof of purchase of some sort to...

Everything has a useful lifetime, and other problems add to that I think. Where I am at the power is horribly dirty. High and low voltages are so common that I had to get a AVR (voltage regulator) to even it out. It runs constantly, pulling voltages up and down. <Shrug> After you try...

Had a video card I had to RMA that kicked out on me in 3d intensive games. It was heat dependent, but it wasn't over the specs max heat level. The new card now works great with no problems. Try Prime95 for a long time to check the CPU Try Memtest overnight to check the mem Try 3dmark05...

I would try if you haven't already: A different power cord, or check it on a different device like a printer or monitor. Check to see if your main powerswitch wiring is on correctly, check the MB maual to see where it should go on the MB and make sure you have it that way. Check the...

This sounds like a heat issue to me, even though you are thinking it isn't. Can you check temps and report back? What video card are you using?

I wonder if there are any problems with condensation within the case. My favorite technique so far was where someone built a aluminum vent from their A/C vent in the room directly into the front intakes and included a dessicant bed to dry the air at the same time - so cool dry air went directly...

I fixed mine! Praise God! :) After fighting this for months, I found the problem (at least so far). My video card was bad. Not bad enough to not work, but it would cause the system locks after 20-40 minutes at temps that should have been fine accoring to BFG tech support. They...

I got the Aerocool Gatekeeper I. Big giant LCD 2 5.25 bay control panel with 4 fan controllers and 4 temp readouts. I just like extra readouts personally. Lol. Works great for me, the only complaint is that it is all 3 wire fan connectors, so I had to do some trickery to get my 4 plug fans...

To the OP, did you install the nVidia SW IDE drivers for this board? I got tons of stability and corruption issues that completely went away when I reinstalled windows and left out the SW IDE drivers.

You can't drop to T1 with 4 sticks with an AMD chip at the moment. I don't know enough about mem timings to comment on the other CAS values. I do know that memory tends to default at looser timings initially to make sure you can boot. My OCZ defaults to 2-3-3-8-T2, but runs great at the...

About the 18A 12V rail. Please keep in mind that the Video card will pull from both (or all three) rails on most PSU setups. I could be totally wrong on this, so correct as you wish, but here is the setup from my PSU (Enermax 600W, dual 12V - 18A each rails) 24 pin Main is on Rail 1, so 4...

Just to make sure I have this all set, please tell me if I am wrong on anything here: I have a dual 12V rail PSU, rated at 18A each rail (Combined 36A, as listed on the PSU). This is plugged into things the following way: 24 pin connector to the board, no adapters (24 pin PSU, 24 pin...

Lol. I wondered about that. The 78.01/03 didn't seem to indicate anything like that in the release notes. Glad to see we are starting to get some recognition from the driver community. What drivers did you update, btw? GPU can go to 77.77 MB can go to 6.66 SB ZS 2 can got to May...

Lol. You tell me this after I already have the card in RMA... <Shrug> Oh well. 9 days until it comes home.