Video Card Update

I have my windows box back today, but no new video card (too much to hope for I guess). I got a call today around 4pm from the tech at the shop saying “uhmm.. you have a linux OS installed on this box”. “No,” says I, “I have a Linux boot CD in the CD drive, which I was using to test the memory.” (Gentoo‘s LiveCD has MemTest86 on it). “Take it out and reboot and it’ll go into windows.”


Scary that the tech didn’t notice it booting from CD and not hard drive. sigh


So they are going to “do their best to expidite” a new card. They didn’t have much choice of course, three guys tested it already, with at minimum 30 years of technical experience between them. We no be dumb tech guys (coughmcseaplustypefellerscough). So they’re going to try to get a replacement fast, hopefully with a cross ship/advance replacement type thing. I’ll give them a couple of days to get back to me with info, but I’m sure as hell not going to be without my sexy fast video card for the two or four weeks it was gone last time.


The rest of the box is running fine with the Geforce3 (again). CPU is stable and cool, system is running nicely. Yay!

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6 Comments on “Video Card Update”

  2. I’m currently running atn ATI AIW 9600 Pro which works great for everything, except Bioware games. Specifically NWN (never winter nights) i haven’t tried it with other Bioware games but from what i’ve read online it’s a problem with the way they run there games. Not the same problem as you have been having but almost as annoying. Easily fixed though, i just can’t oc my system anymore. 🙁 no more 2.2ghz for me.

  3. I’m pretty sure that it was buggy hardware, as it worked fine for a while, then started deteriorating. When it was working, it worked awsome. What sort of problems were you getting in bioware games?

  4. the problem is specifically in Never Winter Nights i have not tried any other bioware games ( i dont’ have any other ones). It’s more or less specific to the 9600 series, though it has happend in a few 9800 and 9700 cards as well. Basically the game runs the data throught he agp bus constantly. Which is normall fine. But if you oc your system the voltages for the agp go up just a little bit, but it’s enough that the data gets corrupted and the game crashes and every now and then the system locks up. Either way you need to reboot cause nothing really works after the crash. As soon as you stop overclocking your cpu, everything works fine. The odd crash now and again but a lot of games have crashes everynow and again.

  5. the problem is specifically in Never Winter Nights i have not tried any other bioware games ( i dont’ have any other ones). It’s more or less specific to the 9600 series, though it has happend in a few 9800 and 9700 cards as well. Basically the game runs the data throught he agp bus constantly. Which is normall fine. But if you oc your system the voltages for the agp go up just a little bit, but it’s enough that the data gets corrupted and the game crashes and every now and then the system locks up. Either way you need to reboot cause nothing really works after the crash. As soon as you stop overclocking your cpu, everything works fine. The odd crash now and again but a lot of games have crashes everynow and again.