Sapphire X850 pro is killin me

[Lashdog]

I recently built a computer in october and have had alot of trouble with the vid card. I own a Sapphire x850 pro and it seems to have a lot of trouble just booting up windows. I get this blocky kind of colorful image for about a min after I power up the computer then I get nothing and the computer crashes. In the error report it states that the drivers caused windows to crash but I cant even get into windows long enough to get the problem figured out. I called the company I bought it from and we went thru the whole RMA process for 7 weeks. When my card was being RMA'd I borrowed a x300 from a friend and my comp never had any problems. Get my x850 in the mail install it boom same problem blocky picture then the comp crashes. I have done everything that i can to get this figured out but my friends and I are at loss we just decided I am curesed. Please help me if you need anymore info just ask I just want my computer to run. Oh the vid card has never been OC'd havent even gotten far enough to play a game.


Specs
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
MSI Neo 4 Platinum
2 Gig OCZ Platinum
iBest PSU 600W
x850 pro
and substantial cooling on every part of this comp

 

[RampantAndroid]

Did it ALWAYS do this? Have you tried to flash your motheboard's bios, or even the video card's bios?

If the RMA is bad, I have two ideas: first, did they send you the exact same board back that you originally owned? THat'd be a screwup on their part....if it is a different videocard, I'd say that it'd be you mobo...

Do DOS look fine? You say you get a blocky colorful image, I'm guess you mean in windows since you are able to tell that the driver caused the issue....

Have you tried a clean install of windows?

 

[Lashdog]

Yeah only the x850 pro does this. The x300 ran fine in the PCI-E slot. The RMA sent me a different board and yes i have the latest BIOS and drivers for my mobo. I just cant figure out why the x300 ran great for a month then the x850 pro just screws everything up. Oh and how do you fix a cli.exe error. I really dislike ATI drivers lol. I have recently installed a fresh windows and all the updates.

 

[Rottie]

did you clean up ati driver? it might be ati leftover so use ati cleaner. what kind of card you had before Sapphire X850 Pro?

 

[RBauer]

cli.exe error.. download drivers from Sapphires website not ATI.. Of cource uninstall the others first.. You could also just edit registry to remove cli.exe from startup.

 

[lavaheadache]

potential power supply problem here

 

[selfbuilt]

Originally posted by: lavaheadache
potential power supply problem here

QFT

Another possibility is a memory/mobo incompatibility. I recall something similar back in the day when I upgrade from a GF2 to a 9500pro ... turns out it was the system RAM (running one stick solved the problem, until I upgraded it). Although this seems less likely than a PSU issue, it is easy to troubleshoot - try tunning one stick, lower the timings, or increase the RAM voltage, and see if that helps. If not, I'd seriously be thinking PSU as well ...

 

[JPB]

My X800 Pro did the same thing ( colorful blocky images ) My PSU was going bad...and it did go bad. Even tho your PSU is 600 watt...it could be going bad...never know....I replaced mine, was fine then