Earlier today, I decided to put an active cooler on my Radeon 9600np, since the only thing cooling it was a piece of aluminum. I just wasn't happy with the slight overclock, and wanted to tinker with it a bit. I followed all the directions, and was very careful in putting on some Ceramique on the core, and a Vantec Iceberq on with the clips. I've never had any problems with this card, except for some minor artifacting after hours of game play on overclocked settings.
...After this mod, everything was fine, for a few hours...then I noticed a few "lines" in certain applications. I immediately thought "oh no!...artifacts!" and went into RadClocker, and turned everything down to default settings. The weird thing is....it got 100X worse! Now there are these visible "lines" everywhere!...and it's at the stock 325/202 clocks!
....am I screwed??!? Did I somehow mess this card up?
I uninstalled Rage3D (and Radclocker), as well as the older Catalyst drivers (required for 9600np overclocking), and installed the new driver....but that made it even worse.
Please help if you know what the problem is.
...After this mod, everything was fine, for a few hours...then I noticed a few "lines" in certain applications. I immediately thought "oh no!...artifacts!" and went into RadClocker, and turned everything down to default settings. The weird thing is....it got 100X worse! Now there are these visible "lines" everywhere!...and it's at the stock 325/202 clocks!
....am I screwed??!? Did I somehow mess this card up?
I uninstalled Rage3D (and Radclocker), as well as the older Catalyst drivers (required for 9600np overclocking), and installed the new driver....but that made it even worse.
Please help if you know what the problem is.
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