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post #21 of 52
hmm wtf, they should be independent settings. Most important is to have reset clocks on exit off since you might forget one day that ATT is running, disconnect ur ac, the notebook goes into powerplay (all is fine and dandy at this point), but if u shut down the notebook, when ATT closes it will reset default clocks while on powerplay and this will crash the GPU.
post #22 of 52
Thread Starter 
I cant check "show temp. in fahreheit" either. That one is greyed out and unable to be selected. Is this going to fry my GPU??
post #23 of 52
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Originally Posted by Luckyfishbone
I cant check "show temp. in fahreheit" either. That one is greyed out and unable to be selected. Is this going to fry my GPU??
Hmm very strange indeed...no it won't fry your gpu...just let it find the max gpu for u.

But just to make sure, you DO have the 128MB version of the X300 right?
post #24 of 52
Thread Starter 
Yep sur do...I know that for sure. Thx again for your help
post #25 of 52
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Originally Posted by Luckyfishbone
Yep sur do...I know that for sure. Thx again for your help
Your welcome. After you've used "find max gpu", reset the gpu, and do the same w/ "find max mem"...

After you've done that, manually put gpu and then the mem at what ATT found to be the max, ONE at a time, click scan for artifacts...and if the counter resets it means if found an artifact. This is fine tuning. ATT sometimes leaves the max even on a value where it did find some artifacts... The reason you find max overclocks for gpu and mem seperately is b/c you don't want what you thought was a stable overclock on your gpu to report artifacts when you're actually testing for mem or vice versa.

Also, be weary, my max gpu found was like 450 w/ ATT, but it would crash CS:S until I lowered to 436 (2 settings down).

Also, typically gpu will report a few errors, but most characterisitc of going to high on gpu is that the screen locks up and then VPU recover may or may not recover default clocks. If it doesn't you'll have to restart.

Mem doesn't lock it up, but you'll get artifacts reported and then eventually artifacts you can actually see on the little spinning ship.
post #26 of 52
Thread Starter 
I cant even get to the overclock settings. Its greyed out to get to the find max gpu? First I right click icon in bottom right, then go to hardware and to the options that come up. The first option is over clocking disabled and it is greyed out. Im not even sure if overclocking is on.
post #27 of 52
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Originally Posted by Luckyfishbone
I cant even get to the overclock settings. Its greyed out to get to the find max gpu? First I right click icon in bottom right, then go to hardware and to the options that come up. The first option is over clocking disabled and it is greyed out. Im not even sure if overclocking is on.
Wow a lot of your settings are grayed out WTF...anyone else know what's going on here??
post #28 of 52
I think it's like with Nvidia drivers, only the "tweaked" versions can enable O/Cing. That is why you use GeforceTony's
post #29 of 52
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Originally Posted by XiaoSongShu
I think it's like with Nvidia drivers, only the "tweaked" versions can enable O/Cing. That is why you use GeforceTony's
He has an ATi X300 just like me...I didn't have to do anything special except install omega drivers.

Luckyfish, did you uninstall the original drivers, and restart before installing omega?
post #30 of 52
Thread Starter 
I uninstalled all the ati stuff in add/remove programs before I installed omega drivers. But to answer your question yep i uninstalled them and them restarted and then installed the omega drivers. May be i have a newer version you you Flav. I have 1.0.5.824 version of the ATT.
post #31 of 52
Well, not sure if this matters but I just recently upgraded my memory from 512MB to 1.25GB.

512MB I ran 3DMark05 scored a 671.
1.25GB I ran 3DMark05 scored 610.

Hmm.
post #32 of 52
Thread Starter 
wow...wonder y that is. You'd think that it would run faster.
post #33 of 52
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Originally Posted by Luckyfishbone
I uninstalled all the ati stuff in add/remove programs before I installed omega drivers. But to answer your question yep i uninstalled them and them restarted and then installed the omega drivers. May be i have a newer version you you Flav. I have 1.0.5.824 version of the ATT.
You were correct.

I had the omega's based on 6.1 and when I installed the ones based on 6.2 today, I answered yes to the "Is your video card IGP or a laptop?" and overclocking was disabled!

The answer is to reinstall the omega drivers but answer NO to that question.

now get me some results!
post #34 of 52
Thread Starter 
Well Flav I uninstalled the omega driver and restarted and then reinstalled the omega driver and r u ready........it is.......still disabled....YEA I really dont know. Does anyone else have a 9300 w/ the x300 ati card and r u having the same problem.
post #35 of 52
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Originally Posted by Luckyfishbone
Well Flav I uninstalled the omega driver and restarted and then reinstalled the omega driver and r u ready........it is.......still disabled....YEA I really dont know. Does anyone else have a 9300 w/ the x300 ati card and r u having the same problem.
Shit...did you say NO to "is it an IGP or is it a laptop"??

If you did, try uninstalling and using drivercleaner pro. Get it here http://www.drivercleaner.net/professional.html

This is how you use it. After you uninstall omega drivers (also uninstall "omega setup files and tools" from the startmenu, if you didn't do this before, this may be your problem b/c ATi tool was not uninstalled, just the drivers), reboot, and press and hold f8 to get into safe mode. Once you're in safe mode, start up driver cleaner, select "Ati" filter and then click clean. Reboot, reinstall omega drivers + ATT.

Good luck.
post #36 of 52
Thread Starter 
Yea I said no to the iga or is it a laptop. I did it twice just to be sure. Ill try the driver cleaner and reinstall omega
post #37 of 52
Just going back to your original question, what's your budget? 6800Go can be had on eBay for about $100-120 while a 1GB stick of RAM is ~$60.
post #38 of 52
Thread Starter 
I only have 200 bucks... Where is the ram 60 bucks for 1 gb and does the brand of ram matter? Yea I've been watching some 6800's on ebay and the ram but only ram I saw was 80 bucks or more for 1 gb.

Hey Flav guess what IT WORKED yea baby.... I guess I didn't uninstall the tools all the way and it just kept the same settings, but I try the overclock and let ya know.
post #39 of 52
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Originally Posted by Luckyfishbone
I only have 200 bucks... Where is the ram 60 bucks for 1 gb and does the brand of ram matter? Yea I've been watching some 6800's on ebay and the ram but only ram I saw was 80 bucks or more for 1 gb.

Hey Flav guess what IT WORKED yea baby.... I guess I didn't uninstall the tools all the way and it just kept the same settings, but I try the overclock and let ya know.
Nice man

Let's see what your baby can do.
post #40 of 52
Thread Starter 
I used the 3dMark05 for benching and got a 1365. Is that good and what should I set the over clock at in omega?
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