I purchased a used Radeon 9500 Pro card (here on AT, in fact) in December. The previous owner had installed a VGA Silencer 3 and some ramsinks, and overclocked the board fairly well.
Anyhow, about a month after I received it, it stopped working. For a week or two before it died, I had noticed some random flickering on my screen, but attributed this to my 5+ year old monitor. However, one night, the signal completely went out ("No Signal Input") and the computer refused to POST soon after. The computer and monitor work fine with my older Radeon card, but not with the 9500.
I did not overclock the card to any extremes (used ATITool to scan for artifacts) and the card was working well up to the point it died, besides the seldom flickering and some faint, odd barely-noticeable "crawling" lines on the screen - "interference" is the best way to describe it.
Any ideas as to what could be the problem? Considering the symptoms, it seems like a electrical problem or faulty component to me. To my knowledge, the previous owner did not do any sort of voltmod - just upping the clock and memory frequencies.
Anyhow, about a month after I received it, it stopped working. For a week or two before it died, I had noticed some random flickering on my screen, but attributed this to my 5+ year old monitor. However, one night, the signal completely went out ("No Signal Input") and the computer refused to POST soon after. The computer and monitor work fine with my older Radeon card, but not with the 9500.
I did not overclock the card to any extremes (used ATITool to scan for artifacts) and the card was working well up to the point it died, besides the seldom flickering and some faint, odd barely-noticeable "crawling" lines on the screen - "interference" is the best way to describe it.
Any ideas as to what could be the problem? Considering the symptoms, it seems like a electrical problem or faulty component to me. To my knowledge, the previous owner did not do any sort of voltmod - just upping the clock and memory frequencies.
