KillerAngel
Senior member
Hey guys. I recently upgraded to an AXP, K7T266 Pro 2, 256MB Crucial PC2100 DDR, and a Gainward GF3 Ti-200 Golden Sample (Retail) from NewEgg. Everything's been working great with aggressive timings, and my video card clocked at 200/450(444), the supposed "Enhanced" guaranteed overclock. Everything was working great until I turned my PC on this morning, when I hit my desktop in Win2k/SP2 there were little distortions on my wallpaper, the kind you would see when you've clocked your video card too high. Well, I was running at the guaranteed enhanced settings, but putting that aside for the moment, I've just been trying to get my card back to the default speed for a Ti-200. I'm having a very difficult time doing so, believe it or not. To get the enhanced clock speeds in the first place, I downloaded the latest version of their Expertool program from Gainward's site. From within it, I hit the button to bump it up to the aforementioned clock speeds. Tested, restarted, fine. It was fine for several days, until my distortions this morning. All I'm trying to do for now is get my card back to its default speed. I've tried returning to the "Safe" default clock settings from within Expertool, and it says it supposedly returns them to normal. But if I enable that, close the program, and open it back up, my speeds are still stuck at the enhanced settings. If I open up my NVIDIA reference driver settings in Display Properties and look at the Clock Frequency tab, the default settings in the tab are 200/450, and that's without the "Enable Hardware Overclocking" box checked. So far I've uninstalled RivaTuner (which I also had installed), Expertool, and my video drivers from the system, rebooted, cleaned out their obvious entries in the registry (who knows if they have deeper, hard to find entries), deleted any files they left behind from the uninstall, reinstalled my video drivers, and rebooted. I run the Coolbits registry file, and reboot again. I load up my NVIDIA properties page, and low and behold, it's till set at 200/450.
I must admit this problem has me a little frazzled, as I'm very confused as to why it's still insisting on running the faster clock speeds. I probably could enable hardware overclocking in the NVIDIA properties panel and "underclock" them back to the defaults, and check "Apply Settings at Startup", but I don't think that's something I should have to do. I don't feel comfortable with the "defaults being overclocked settings. It's almost as if when I hit the enhanced button in Expertool the first time, I reprogrammed the BIOS on the card to make those settings default. 😉 Of course that isn't very likely, so I'm here asking for your guy's thoughts. What could be causing this? What's to be done about it? Any and all input is appreciated guys, thanks in advance.
Oh, and one more thing. Does anyone know what the official "Enhanced" settings for the memory on this card are? It moves the bar up to 450 when you hit the enhanced button, but when you actually apply the settings, it looks like it bumps it back down to 444. I've been running it at 450 so far, and if it's only rated to go to 444, then maybe that setting would work without "flurries". I may be able to exchange this card with NewEgg if you guys think I shouldn't have any trouble running the "guaranteed" overclock. Do you think I should try and RMA this card if the flurries continue at the overclocked settings? I haven't seen any when at the default, but then again, I'm running at 200/450 right now (at least, that's what the properties page tells me, who knows), and I haven't seen any flurries since. Again, your input is appreciated guys. Thanks again.
I must admit this problem has me a little frazzled, as I'm very confused as to why it's still insisting on running the faster clock speeds. I probably could enable hardware overclocking in the NVIDIA properties panel and "underclock" them back to the defaults, and check "Apply Settings at Startup", but I don't think that's something I should have to do. I don't feel comfortable with the "defaults being overclocked settings. It's almost as if when I hit the enhanced button in Expertool the first time, I reprogrammed the BIOS on the card to make those settings default. 😉 Of course that isn't very likely, so I'm here asking for your guy's thoughts. What could be causing this? What's to be done about it? Any and all input is appreciated guys, thanks in advance.
Oh, and one more thing. Does anyone know what the official "Enhanced" settings for the memory on this card are? It moves the bar up to 450 when you hit the enhanced button, but when you actually apply the settings, it looks like it bumps it back down to 444. I've been running it at 450 so far, and if it's only rated to go to 444, then maybe that setting would work without "flurries". I may be able to exchange this card with NewEgg if you guys think I shouldn't have any trouble running the "guaranteed" overclock. Do you think I should try and RMA this card if the flurries continue at the overclocked settings? I haven't seen any when at the default, but then again, I'm running at 200/450 right now (at least, that's what the properties page tells me, who knows), and I haven't seen any flurries since. Again, your input is appreciated guys. Thanks again.
