Sapphire x1800 XL speed detection problem

[Nazzrath]

I purchased the above mentioned video card and I'm having a problem with it. I have it installed in an Asus A8R-MVP motherboard with an AMD 64 3200+ and 1gig of OCZ ram. Anyways, once I had it up and running I ran a couple programs such as 3DMark 2005 and SiS Sandra Lite. Both programs are showing me that the video card is running at 375mhz core speed and 0.0 mhz memory speed, when I know core should be 500 and memory should be 1000 (495ddr). I then ran the Catalyst Control Center program that came with the Sapphire driver CD. It was showing the correct speeds, but when I tried to manually raise the clock speeds by 1mhz my computer crashed and rebooted. I also tried ATiTool version .25 and when i try to adjust the timings and click the Mem button, it says the timings cannont be changed with this chipset. I then installed the overclocking utility that came with the driver CD and when I ran it, it said "Only works with Sapphire video cards" then the program shut down. I also noticed that nowhere on the video card does it say Sappire, or have any of their logos. The only logo I see is the female ATI character. So I don't know if this is even a Sapphire video card, or the card itself is defective. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[ub3rnewb]

Sounds like a dead/dieing card to me.
RMA it.

 

[aiya24]

Originally posted by: ub3rnewb
Sounds like a dead/dieing card to me.
RMA it.

ditto