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9800xt display problems?

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oblitah

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I've had an Asus 9800xt for about a month now, and its finally starting to bother me that I have to reboot 2-3 times to get my screen to display properly instead of like the above image.

I've tried using Asus 3.8/3.9, ATI 3.9 and Omega 3.9/3.10 drivers and even tried reinstalling Windows XP three times.

I also have another odd problem that my video goes blank and the monitor goes into power saving for 3-5 seconds during bootup after the loading XP screen and before the Welcome screen, but since I don't know anybody else with this video card its hard to say if thats actully a problem or not.

Any help would be appreciated thanks.
 
Yea, I'd RMA it like Viper96720 said.

As for the monitor going into ps mode during boot up, I haven't seen this with an ATI card but I just set up a Win2k business box using a Matrox G450 dual head and does exactly the same thing. The Viewsonic E70 it's hooked to goes into ps mode if the signal is absent for 5 sec. which I think is kinda short. 🙁
 
I have a similar problem that I have related in my own post concerning my 9600xt.

I once got that kind of screen. I have had my Viewsonic PF790 turn off on me a few times.
Sometimes the VPU recovery kicks in. I must have sent at least 6 crash emails to ATI.
At first I thought it was the Overdrive, so I turned that off.
No.
I still get crashes with it off.
Could it be fast writes that I enabled? I thought my KT7A board and 9600xt were able to use fast write...?
I have a 300w power supply.
I have until the 31st to figure this out (my last return date).

I may just return it and order online a 9800se refurb/oem.

 
that's the infamous Cold Boot problem. does it corrupt your boot screen text also ?

I'm dealing with that to right now. just do a search for Boot on rage and you'll see, crap load of people dealing with this.
 
Looks exactly like when my Antec power supply started failing on the +12v Rail, check your voltages.
 
On my 9600xt I haven't noticed any boot screen corruption.

I have experienced lock ups, then VPU recovery, etc.

I am unsure if I should wait and see if this is a driver issue.

I left my computer on all day today after disabling fast writes in the BIOS.

It did not appear to have any problems today.

Time it ticking away....should I keep or return....
 
This is one weird and very frustrating problem (I have it to) the symptoms makes it look like a PSU problem but in most cases it isn't. Some have had their cards for months and all of a sudden they start to have it, they think it's their PSU and change it to a 550 watt top of the line PSU only to see that it didn't fix it. I have a brand new Antec True Blue 480 Watt PSU.

In one post I've read, I think it was Abit, after reading the bios .txt, the bios released was to fix this very problem, I do know that Asus in one of their upgrades released a bios for the A7V333 that also fixed this very problem. I've read another post where users downgraded the bios and the problem surfaced, upgraded the bios the problem was fixed.

The problem may even follow the card into another computer if that mobo doesn't have the proper bios that fixes it and in some cases it does and in others it doesn't, meaning the problem may occur in one computer and not in the other depending on how the card gets initialized.

After reading for hours and hours (trust me it's allot of hours) on this issue, I believe that it has something to do with a capacitor that has been or is being degraded and the way the mobo initializes the card. With a degraded capacitor the mobo may not give it enough juice to start but after several reboots it's as if there is a capacitor that finally gets charged enough for it to give it the proper juice that it needs, it's not that the card is bad, it may just be the way new capacitors work, it may also be the way that certain mobo and BIOS's combinations initialize the card. The mobo just doesn't give the capacitor enough juice for the initialization process to complete successfully. Once you turn off the computer that capacitor can keep the charge from 2 minutes to an hour but it eventually looses the charge and the problem reoccurs at the next boot.

The only way to fix this is for an updated mobo bios to update the way the card gets initialized. Even if you get a new card or PSU the problem may still persist, if not it may be in a week or a few months but it seems that it will eventually catch up unless the bios for your particular mobo properly initializes the card. That may be why some have it and some don't with identical system.
 
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