Posts by mikeyr

Ok, this is the missing image ('hope it works). I had to use an image hosting service.

How the heck to you insert an image located on your hard drive?

Ok, the last setting where the Core frequency was set to 150 and Memory to 125 worked only for some apps. When playing Airstrike 3D, the artifacts reappeared. Another utility was used to find an alternate solution to this problem and...

Well, so much for my ideas. It seems so unbelievable that a video chip manufacturer would design and market such a product like this Radeon 9700 that is so difficult to optimize and/or stabilize. I'll download ATITools v0.24 as you have...

Quote: Originally Posted by >(SLuG> Thanks guys, I am going to order some thermal tape and try to get in there again. I did remove all the screws and tried to lightly pull the plate upwards, but I did get...

Quote: Originally Posted by >(SLuG> How did you get the aluminum plate off? I removed all screws and tried lifting it off, but it was still attached to something, maybe the copper heatsink? Was wondering if you...

Ok, the artifacts came back after a day of testing. It was just as bad as before so what I did was to further underclock the chip's Core and Memory frequencies. Now, my Core frequency is 150 and the Memory frequency was set to 125. The...

Hello all, I also own a Sager NP8790 Notebook PC with the ATI Radeon 9700 Mobility chip (256MB) and I've been also experiencing problems with artifacts. I understand that this thread is over a year old, but I'll bet there are others out...