Here's the story. I had a built-by-ATI 8500le that went bad. In fact a poster on Rage3d had the exact same problem. See here.
In that case the guy concluded that the power supply was at fault, but in my case I changed to an old gf2mx and the problem disappeared, so the card was RMA'd. In exchange Newegg sent me the Sapphire (much slower...) version of the card.
Now this card is giving me problems, though completely different. After some switch is triggered (i.e. the problem doesn't occur immediately) some textures in games become "garbled," more like a colored noise pattern actually. Generally the textures that become garbled belong to single objects (like a desk) or in one case to the emitted light from lamps. Sometimes the entire screen becomes a bit screwy, though in that case it's less texture problems but more like the massive tearing, like all the polygons collapsed in on themselves.
I should mention that in that first thread I mentioned, the original poster came to the conclusion that the power supply was at fault. In my case I'm now using a different power supply then the one that was used by the first problem card, so I doubt that's causing a problem in the second card. Anyways...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
In that case the guy concluded that the power supply was at fault, but in my case I changed to an old gf2mx and the problem disappeared, so the card was RMA'd. In exchange Newegg sent me the Sapphire (much slower...) version of the card.
Now this card is giving me problems, though completely different. After some switch is triggered (i.e. the problem doesn't occur immediately) some textures in games become "garbled," more like a colored noise pattern actually. Generally the textures that become garbled belong to single objects (like a desk) or in one case to the emitted light from lamps. Sometimes the entire screen becomes a bit screwy, though in that case it's less texture problems but more like the massive tearing, like all the polygons collapsed in on themselves.
I should mention that in that first thread I mentioned, the original poster came to the conclusion that the power supply was at fault. In my case I'm now using a different power supply then the one that was used by the first problem card, so I doubt that's causing a problem in the second card. Anyways...
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I just might try that bios trick, depending on whether one will work on a Sapphire 8500le 64mb.
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