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Hi,
I have just bought this new radeon 8500LE with 64 megs. I tried rnning some games but iget this freeze screen whith a messed up picture. It hase colored lines on it. This happens in all my games rigth after the loading screen when the games is about to begin. I've updated evrything i can think of and still nuttin. What can be wrong?
I have:
AMD XP1700
AOpen Ak77-333 Mobo
256 ddr266 ram
might be the driver issue maybe?
ati drivers are very buggy.
did you update the last chipset driver for your mobo and bios ?
make sure you didn't tweak your card and check bios configuration.
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i have updated the ati drivers and the via drivers. i haven't tweaked it, but how would i know if it was? what's that about the power supply?
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I have the same exact problem with my 7500.
I have had it for months now but with me it happens only after about an hour or more of gaming.
and I have tried EVERYTHING!!!
- extra fan right on the card- running with open computer
- new driver
- monitoring voltages
and NOTHING!!!
...you wana know what it REALLY is?
Bad hardware (you just got a bad card), ATI-radeon has this nasty little habit of using cheap korean and taiwanese components and of course one in every few dozen cards is going to give poblems sooner or later.
You probably have a card with bad capacitors that can't take your demands. its new you say? return it right away!...if not its your power supply.
(get at lest a 350watt one, specially if you plan on upgrading more or have a lot of fans)
check--> http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/power_supply/
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i already have a 350w power supply. you say it's because they're cheaply made. alright i'll return it and see what happens. thanks a lot everyone.
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No, no, don't get me wrong.
Both Nvidia & ATI-radeon are good cards, specially any model over 64MB with a fan, the thing is thas it isnt unusual for them to tweak.
Maybe is something else, no clue.
I still cannot figure out what's wrong with mine, I have the same problem but it just happens sometimes.
But I asked around and this seems to be kind of common in some ati models because of this batch of bad korean capacitors in the cards.
but one nevers knows, ask the technitian at the store where you bought it.good luck
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ok, ok, wait, does your card/system run ok (stable) with windows, word , internet and such?
because if it just freezes with games or photoshop it's very probably a hardware problem.
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...hardware problem meaning the card of course.
maybe you could get your money back or store credit and try a different model, maybe upgrade to a 9700 series (real good but still too overpriced) or get the nvidia MSI GeForce4 Ti 4200 (64MB) $125 which is basically the competition of the radeon 8500 and just as fast, still do some reaserch first.
well, later.
stimpford@yahoo.com
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i think it's just a direct 3d problem. How can i get better direct 3d support. i got teh lates catalyst drivers and direct x 9. what else is there to do?
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I had the exact same card and the same problem and did everything as well,,,
Got sick of it and replaced it with an Nvidia and no prob since.
good luck
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