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I think my AIW 9700 Pro is dying

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Glendor

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AGP AIW 9800PRO 128MB DDR BGA NTSC ASSY

About two weeks ago I had some wierd video artifacts show up while playing MechWarrior. Some vertical bars showed up in the sky part of the background. They were there in 3D because they were only in one place (i.e.: only in the North East part of the map). I just figured it was a crappy/defective map. A few days later while playing Mech again (the only game I play right now), some vertical bars appeared in the foreground. When I shelled out to windows, then Alt-tabbed backed to the game, they were gone, but it happened again a few minutes later. I shut down, rebooted, and the problem went away. Now the same forground bars happen in & out of the game, and they are getting worse. They take up more room on the screen, and in a game, the whole image is corrupted and can't be played. I tried the latest drivers, but it didn't help. I need to install it in a different PC to see if the problem travels with the card.

I know how to troubleshoot the problem correctly, I just don't have the time, and maybe I've grown a little lazy 😉

I suppose I'm just looking for somebody to save me the effort by maybe pointing me to a known problem, or a known fix with the AIW cards. I should have taken a screen shot, but maybe it wouldn't have shown up on a screen shot.

Anyway, what do you think???
 
I had a somewhat similar problem with my 9700.
In 3D apps I would get multi colored vertical bars on the display (the whole screen though), and my computer would freeze hard.
Turned out it was because I had my 9700 plugged into the same power lead as my hard drive and it wasn't getting enough juice to run 3D properly.
May not be the cause of your problem but just an idea to check out. Maybe your power supply is getting weak (although I wouldn't think it would just cause just a few lines in your display) so the problem is just now starting to manifest itself?

Sure hope it helps.
 
Have you made certain the fan is spinning and that heat isn't the cause? If so and it is still borked after trying another system then use your favorite utility to underclock first the ram and then the core speeds seperately, and see if the issue persists try significantly underclocking both together.
 
Pick up a can of compressed air and try blowing out the video card heatsink. Could be getting clogged with dust and causing it to overheat.


Actually, would be a good time to blow out EVERYTHING in your case. Can make a big difference.
 
Originally posted by: Creig
Pick up a can of compressed air and try blowing out the video card heatsink. Could be getting clogged with dust and causing it to overheat.


Actually, would be a good time to blow out EVERYTHING in your case. Can make a big difference.
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Or better yet, a can of canned air.
 
Originally posted by: Marsumane
Originally posted by: Creig
Pick up a can of compressed air and try blowing out the video card heatsink. Could be getting clogged with dust and causing it to overheat.


Actually, would be a good time to blow out EVERYTHING in your case. Can make a big difference.
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Or better yet, a can of canned air.
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I put my systems on an old blanket in the garage and hit them with the leafblower :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Originally posted by: Marsumane
Originally posted by: Creig
Pick up a can of compressed air and try blowing out the video card heatsink. Could be getting clogged with dust and causing it to overheat.


Actually, would be a good time to blow out EVERYTHING in your case. Can make a big difference.
Click to expand...

Or better yet, a can of canned air.
Click to expand...
I put my systems on an old blanket in the garage and hit them with the leafblower :laugh:
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So I should stop putting it in the dishwasher???

I'll check on the heat issue, but as cold as our house is right now, I doubt it's a heat issue. I'll move the power plug off the one the HD is using. I recently took 3 SCSI drives out of the case, so the amout of available power should be better than it was, yet the problem continues.

I got it during the first month the AIW 9700 Pros first hit the market, so it has some miles on it. I sure hadn't budgeted for a replacement. What would you'all suggest I replace it with? What card has the best bang for the buck?

Glendor...
 
Heh I got my 9700 pro shortly after they came out too. I've been reading a lot lately on people's 9700's starting to bite the dust. I just pray this one lasts at least 2 more weeks so I can get my new rig here D:
 
Originally posted by: malak
Heh I got my 9700 pro shortly after they came out too. I've been reading a lot lately on people's 9700's starting to bite the dust. I just pray this one lasts at least 2 more weeks so I can get my new rig here D:
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Where have you been reading that. I want to compare notes with the owners of other failing 9700 Pros.

Glendor...
 
Throughout this forum. Every day I come in and see a thread talking about a 9700, some of people looking to buy, some of people with one failing. My friend's 9700 recently failed, about a week ago.
 
Ruh roh, I think maybe my 9700 is starting to die now. Got a horizontal artifact on my desktop and in a game. Had to drop resolution in one game because it was stuttering. Hope my alienware gets here soon 🙁
 
I had this problem before. I had to RMA my card, it happend twice ones was a broken pipline and the other time was memory failure. Rmaed them both times and got back a new one which worked great.

FNC JOn
 
my 2 previous cards, a 9700Pro and a 9800Pro, both still working fine to this day in their respective systems (out of my hands now)

'grats on the new card!
 
I have the same problem with my 9700 pro as this guy: http://www.videocard-forum.com...ing_Screen_181195.html

Here is a picture of mine playing deathball (ut2004 mod): http://forums.gameservers.net/...?s=&threadid=19114

This also happens on my desktop. Cold, hot, doesn't matter. It comes and goes at random.

I've had the problem for a while. Sometimes it happens all the time, then for a while it won't happen at all. I don't have another video card so I waiting for the right time to RMA it.
 
I've had the exact same problem with 3 9700 pros.

They begin to artifact and steadily grow worse. Each one lasted me a little over a year.

I think they may be sensitive to something in people's systems - I have friends who have had NO issues.
 
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