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Problems with a 9800XT I just sold

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robo22

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I sold off my 9800XT the other day and the other person just received it today, but is having quite a lot of problems with it. He's experiencing severe tearing in HL2, momentary freezes in the stress test, and really low FPS in HL2 and along with several other games including COD. There have been no artifacts or abnormal temperature readings (idles in the 60s). He just switched over from a 6800GT that he is selling so conflict with the nvidia drivers might be a problem. But we've tried using drivers cleaner and several versions of catalysts, but the problem still persists. We've also attempted to turn off ATI AI and turning on vsync, but both didn't do any good. He's running an alienware right now with an amd64 3700+ and 2 gigs of ram. The card have ran flawlessly in my setup listed below, and with no signs of artifacts or abnormal temperatures in his setup, I'm pretty sure that the card is not defective. If anyone can offer me some suggestions that preferably won't require a format, I'll really apprectiate it. Thanks.
 
He just took the card over to his friend's house with a 9600XT, and the card ran flawlessly. So it's confirmed that it's a problem with the drivers that probably only a format can fix. I already told him to turn off fastwrite and im pretty sure the agp bus and pci are already locked at those speeds. Thanks for the response.
 
Yeah we were actually in the middle of a trade, my 9800XT plus cash for his gt. He felt that he didn't need the extra horsepower since he mostly plays COD and just finished with far cry and hl2. Does anyone else have any other solutions for this problem? Drivers cleaner just wiped out all the video drivers and forced him into vgasave mode, but a restore point solved that problem so he's kind of sketchy about using drivers cleaner again. It is an alienware computer, so maybe alienware installed something that's causing this problem? Any other suggestions would be largely appreciated. Thanks
 
can you restate that please? If you're talking about him being trapped in vgasave mode and not being able to install any drivers, he already solved that problem by going back to a previous restore point. Right now, he has no problems installing drivers, it's just that it's not providing him with the performance that it should be.
 
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