Spaztic_Reaper

Yeah dots . Anyways when I started to play Oblivion today everywhere black dots were popping up and flashing, not very big, but enough to be an annoyance and the card's fan was blowin' at max speed and I'd just started. It's an Ati Radeon X700 Pro. No problems with it until today. Oblivion has run pretty smooth on it ever since I got new drivers. It still ran pretty smooth, but these dots are worrying me, 'specially the fact that my fan is workin so hard so soon. I just need a temp. fix cuz I'm plannin on getting a new case w/ better cooling and a new X1600 XT card along with an ASUS AMD Crossfire motherboard. But i dunno when I'm gunna be able to get it so I kinda wanna keep this card going until then. Thanks for any help.

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X1800XTTOP

Open your case and let a deskfan blow at the gpu while playing. It might help

Spaztic_Reaper

K, I'll try that, thanks . BTW I'm thinkin of gettin a new mobo, what would you suggest? My budget is like around $75-$125, and it needs to have crossfire. I've found a few on newegg.com but another person's opinion is always helpful.

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Customgamer1

X1800XT thats what i did and well it worked but then my video card broke

I would say try and blow all the dust out of it and try and save it just incase.

The other post I talked about my video card that just broke today

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Spaztic_Reaper

Good idea . Thanks for da tip man. Sorry to hear bout your card though...

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kn00tcn

make sure it doesnt look like this: http://kn00tcn.freepgs.com/00-temp-0...es90+temps.JPG

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H3X4D3C1M4L

That looks more like candy floss than dust

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Customgamer1

LOL well my card was not that bad lol but it did have a lot of dust in it. I just hope it's the card and not anything else because I just bought a replacement lol.

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Spaztic_Reaper

Well I took out the card and gave it a thorough cleaning, it was quite clogged with dust. So i cleaned it, put it back in, and started Oblivion. And things went from bad to worse. Black dots were now accompanied by random polygons and sprites being stretched out, trees stretched across the sky and parts of my horse had stretched in a way so it had a spiked mane, and empty spaces where I could look through. I think this card is dead, thankfully I can get my new card, mobo and case soon.

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firyace

Yeah, your card is probably dead if thats the case, may I ask you how did you clean it?

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Spaztic_Reaper

Well of course i discharged ne static on me, then i removed the card and the fan and heatsink cover. Dust was everywhere so since i dont hav an air cleaner i used a ear cleaner to gently brush most of it out. It is a clean card now, but it seems it is more than dirt that is the problem, probably is dead.

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Nightowl225

In reality your problem is that Antec Powersupply. Most of the current Antec powersupplies have to be RMAED back to Antec to get a newer revision that works with ASUS Motherboards if that is what you have. You don't say if your motherboard is an ASUS or not. If it is, time to consider a new powersupply.

I know from expierence what an Antec Powersupply can do. I had a TrueControl 2 550watt powersupply, it screwed up two X1800 Crossfire cards on me, caused reboots after 4 hours of gaming, earlier this year have reason to believe it screwed up a Turtlebeach soundcard on me, and an Audigy 2, can't prove it with the soundcards though, got rid of them. Worse, for awhile after I did my upgrade, I had BSOD's, which I was able to trace to ULI's raid drivers, and to the powersupply. I darn near winded up getting a new motherboard also until I realized what the trouble was last week, and bought a Thermaltake Toughpower 700, haven't had no trouble since.

After this mess, I'm not a real big fan of Antec Powersupplies anymore, I have a friend who had an Antec Powersupply, within the past couple of years, he had so much trouble from it, he took it back to the store he got it from, and put in a Thermaltake TR2 430watt Powersupply and hasn't had no trouble since with his system.

Spaztic_Reaper

No I don't have the Asus mobo yet, but I'm getting a new case with it that comes with a 420w powersupply (no idea on the brand name, probably generic. I'm sure I'll switch it). I'm also getting a X1600XT card with the order, I was just lookin for a possibly temporary fix. This just means no oblivion for a few weeks, but oh well. Thanks to every1 who helped.

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romeotech

I added a artic cooler fan to replace the stock fan and now the card works. I was having the same graphical corruption and freezing on boot. Artic Cooling fans may be a solution, cheapest one too.

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Spaztic_Reaper

Well, due to the fact that 1 of the items I wanted to get from newegg is out of stock I've changed my order a bit and this is what I'm going to order from them as soon as I can afford it; Asus crossfire edition mobo, Thermaltake 430W PSU, Aspire X-Infinity Case, and a Sapphire X850XT 256MB GDDR3 w/ 256-bit memory and 16 pixel pipelines, thankfully it was only $15 more than the X1600 XT, pity it doesn't have crossfire though. I'll be keeping my hardrive, and dvd and cd drives from my old emachines though, along with my AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and the 4 stix of 512MB Kingston RAM I have.

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