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MAJOR video corruption/artifacting problem on 5680, HELP

post #1 of 12
8/6/05 at 3:44am
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I've had this 5680 since December 03, and this problem is just showing up now. I play games, from the new FEAR demo to tetris or some game on a GBA emulator...and then after about 5 minutes it starts artifacting and gets worse and worse, until I close the game, then my desktop starts filling up entirely with artifacts...I got a screenshot of this happening too: http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9653/artifact5eg.jpg

I cleaned my CPU's heatsink earlier today to try to fix this but I can't seem to figure out how to simply get to the GPU heatsink/fan to clean it. All three fans are working on the bottom BTW.

Any suggestions? I'll give any info as needed, just was in kind of a hurry while writing this.

Thanks
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post #2 of 12
8/6/05 at 12:41pm
1)Your OC'ed, just by your 3dmark 03 score I can tell that. Drop the clocks to default see if it happens again.
2) bios revision please.
3) driver set
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post #3 of 12
8/6/05 at 5:46pm
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I run stock settings now, those are old scores. I actually have it way underclocked now because of this temporarily. I'm running the Omega 5.4 drivers, and I have whatever BIOS was installed when I got this in december 03, I'll restart and tell you though after this post.

Do you need a floppy drive for BIOS updating? I'm on vacation in maine and didn't bring my floppy drive..

:Edit: okay, it's BIOS revision 1.00.10S...old?
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post #4 of 12
8/6/05 at 9:58pm
ok cool,
I Think the 1.00.10s is current as far as I know.

I had issues OC as soon as Updated the bios. I'm on the Omega 5.6's and I use the OC tool with profiles set up so if I game it OC accordingly and drops to default clocks when I exit a game. my Current oc is 290/400.
are the fans clogged?
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post #5 of 12
8/6/05 at 11:09pm
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Well not really, I cleaned out the two and took the CPU heatsink off, cleaned the dust off of it. I don't have new thermal paste for the CPU until I get home.

I haven't figured out how to access and clean the video card's HS/fan, it's never been cleaned out for that reason. The fan grills themselves are clear though. Should I open it up and clean it? I really don't know how and Philips stuck a stupid little "ZOMG WARRANTY VOID IF REMOVED" sticker on one of the screw holes...BS
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post #6 of 12
8/7/05 at 12:25am
I've NEVER removed the CPU heatsink, I've blown the fan area and CPU heatsink out though, I haven't goto the GPU either, I'm not too sure you should, if you look threw the manual it's kinda a b!@#$ to get at.
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post #7 of 12
8/7/05 at 9:48pm
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What should I really do at this point? Am i gonna have to send it in once again? I'm getting sick of the stuff I have to go through to keep this thing working. The 7620 better be improved compared to this.

http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/9...rrupted4bn.jpg Another pic...trying to run a game in 640x480 low settings when I know I can run it at high 1600x1200. The game struggles to keep a steady pace. The fps stays around the 30ish range but the game's speed is flying all over the place. This happens in a couple games too, and then after 30 seconds the artifacts are so abundant you're like forced to stop playing.

No one has had this happen to them? I tried updating to the latest Omegas and that didn't help at all. I'm at BIOS default clock speeds also. Is this gonna be covered under warranty if it's really a hardware problem?
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post #8 of 12
8/12/05 at 11:35am
I am having the same problems. It happens when a play World of Warcraft. I have had the artifacting on and off for a while but has recently gotten worse. Windowing out will fix it for a few seconds and doing it long enough times I can get it to stop for a while.
I have Omega drives cat 5.7
Sager 5680, 3.0 Ghz, 512 mb ram, Ati 9600 moblity 128mg 8x agp, bios 1.00.10s, 60g @ 7200RPM.

my OC settings are: Bios GPU = 344.00 Current GPU = 344.25
Bios Mem = 243.00 Current Mem = 243.00
Bios Mem with ddr enabled = 486.00 Current Mem with ddr enabled = 486.00

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
dolbe1
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post #9 of 12
8/13/05 at 10:57pm
486?
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post #10 of 12
8/14/05 at 11:32am
Yes 486.00, theres a button in the control panel under overclocking that sats show as DDR and when checked, it changes the values to 486.00 like I mentioned before.
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post #11 of 12
8/15/05 at 10:44am
so your oc the CPU to 972?
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post #12 of 12
10/19/05 at 2:22pm
has anyone successfully solved this problem?

I am having this problem as well on my Sager 8790.

It seems to be related to DirectX. How have others solved this problem?

Thanks,
Scott
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