n00b I think I failed at overclocking

Brother Ali

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Well I have a x1950pro and I think messed up. I was playing call of duty 4 and decided that I should give overclocking a try since it could use some extra boost for this game.

Anyways; using the ati catalyst software I tried out the "Automatic Clock Configuration" and it ran. My clock increased to ~620 (from 580) and memory went to ~720 (from 702).

Well I installed ati tools to see what it said. I thought that ati tools would let me see what my fans were doing. I tried the artifact test and all seemed fine. But atitools would crash once in awhile so I uninstalled it.

I played the game at my maxed out settings and it was alittle too slow for my liking. I didnt want to mess up my card since im new at this so after like 30mins I went back to factory settings.

Well the next day I have been having this problem where my ping is fine; but after like 3mins of playing the screen will freeze and then resume after like a min. Even while im typing this it will pass every so often and I can keep typing but noting will show then all of a sudden the word pops up. (like the computer isnt freezing but the GPU is so it will display what the computer wants with a delay)

Also in single player mode I have problems with anything over 640 resolution. 1024 never works it always crashes (I have ran 1024 before with now problems)

I have reinstalled the game and the display drivers

If anyone could help me out I would really really appreciate it.

 

imported_wired247

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Kinda sounds like a heat issue, the GPU might be cutting clock cycles from overheating. I'm confused, is it totally back to the original clock settings?
 

djnoob

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It sounds like that you aren't actually back to stock settings even though it says you are.

Uninstall ATItools and then uninstall the driver. Some may suggest to use driver cleaner also. Then re-install the drivers.
 

Brother Ali

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Originally posted by: djnoob
It sounds like that you aren't actually back to stock settings even though it says you are.

Uninstall ATItools and then uninstall the driver. Some may suggest to use driver cleaner also. Then re-install the drivers.

I already did that. I used driver cleaner too. Inless im somehow not correctly uninstalling it?

Originally posted by: SorryImLate
Is it on stock cooling

I have stock cooling.

I think djnoob is right snice I locked the fan in 100% and it is doing fine now. I played COD and everything was fien. If only I could get it back to stock timings (if thats the problem).

 

djnoob

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Well there are two possible theorys here based on the fact that you did not have this issue prior to you overclock attempt

1) the the card has not returned to stock settings thus it is still producing increased heat/load

2) that in your overclock attempt you somehow damaged the card and or the heat sink.

The idea that you damaged the card with one overclocking attempt is highly unlikely. Hence why I'm leading towards it being a driver issue.

Do you access to another system (like a good friend) who'd let you install the card to test if it's a hardware issue? You could as some have suggested and just do a clean install.

Did you run driver cleaner in while in safe mode?
 

Brother Ali

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Originally posted by: djnoob
Well there are two possible theorys here based on the fact that you did not have this issue prior to you overclock attempt

1) the the card has not returned to stock settings thus it is still producing increased heat/load

2) that in your overclock attempt you somehow damaged the card and or the heat sink.

The idea that you damaged the card with one overclocking attempt is highly unlikely. Hence why I'm leading towards it being a driver issue.

Do you access to another system (like a good friend) who'd let you install the card to test if it's a hardware issue? You could as some have suggested and just do a clean install.

Did you run driver cleaner in while in safe mode?

I do not know of anybody off hand (im a high school student).

I got excited reading your post and said why not boot into win2000 (duel boot). Well COD is not compatible with win2000.

And yeah I ran the driver cleaner in safe mode. The only thing is the cleaner cab wouldnt do anything. I am assume I didnt need to do that?

 

djnoob

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no the cab cleaner really shouldn't affect it.

Did you uninstal ati-tools as well? If you didn't then try that, then use DC, then re-install dirvers.

Other than that it would seem that the only options you have would be to either find a way to test the card to make sure you didn't damage it or to do a re-install.

Good luck!
 

Brother Ali

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Well thanks to everyone that helped; especially djnoob. A clean install and everything is running great. I guess installing atitools and using ati catalyst at the same time could have caused it.

One last question; before when I installed the ati software there was an "Ati Catalyist Update" in the program files. I installed it this time around and am not sure why it isnt there anymore. I may have installed a new verison of the catalyist software not sure. If there is a way to get that back; that would be nice since its so convenient