Ati x800 pro - too old?

[sephirot]

Hello

I have an Ati x800 pro and windows 7 build 7100. Now I have some dots all over my videos, i can't play videogames and the same dots are over my mouse's cursor.

here>> http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3885/errorudp.png

I have installed the driver from windowsupdate. Aero is off.

Is my graphic too old already or is it failling?

 

[zigzag3143]

Hello

I have an Ati x800 pro and windows 7 build 7100. Now I have some dots all over my videos, i can't play videogames and the same dots are over my mouse's cursor.

here>> http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3885/errorudp.png

I have installed the driver from windowsupdate. Aero is off.

Is my graphic too old already or is it failling?

Probably your video driver. If you haben't could you fill out your system specs (lower left corner) so we know what kind of hardware you have?

Ken

 

[sephirot]

Probably your video driver. If you haben't could you fill out your system specs (lower left corner) so we know what kind of hardware you have?

Ken

Done. But I can't install other driver and the one from windows update always did fine.

 

[zigzag3143]

Done. But I can't install other driver and the one from windows update always did fine.

Ok

If you go into device manager (type device manager in search), find the video device, right click it and roll back the driver to the previous version that worked

 

[sephirot]

Ok

If you go into device manager (type device manager in search), find the video device, right click it and roll back the driver to the previous version that worked

There is no previous version that worked, because I've had this one ever. Plus, I formated the windows a few hours ago and it stills the same. And those dots also appears in some parts of bios, when the computer starts

 

[zigzag3143]

There is no previous version that worked, because I've had this one ever. Plus, I formated the windows a few hours ago and it stills the same. And those dots also appears in some parts of bios, when the computer starts

Sorry I misunderstood. If its a desktop carefully reseat the video card, and the monitor cable. If its a laptop, thats a whole other problem. Either case might want to upgrade bios. When/how did it start doing this? did you install something around that time?

Ken

 

[smarteyeball]

And those dots also appears in some parts of bios, when the computer starts

If the same dots are appearing the BIOS as well, then it's not a software issue.

If you have a spare video cable, try swapping your current one. But I think you have some failing hardware. The card is most likely dying



Other alternatives:

Failing PSU, failing Motherboard.

 

[sephirot]

well, I tried and old 9200 SE and the dots stop appearing (altough it can't render my 1440x990 resolution). So, it appears it's hardware problem

Those problems start appearing when I had some troubles with codecs, but I formatted and they still here, so I have to put that possibility away.

 

[smarteyeball]

The BIOS is independent of any driver / software interference, so it's not your codecs.

I had an old TNT2 card that started showing those type of artefacts before it died completely. Add to the fact that you had no problems with another card, all signs do point to the x800 going south

 

[sephirot]

Damn. It looks that I have to buy a new AGP. Well, thank you all anyway

 

[MikeVirtual]

Hi there,

I have an Ati x800 pro and windows 7 build 7100. Now I have some dots all over my videos, i can't play videogames and the same dots are over my mouse's cursor.

Had the exact same issue with ATI x600 All-in-Wonder - worked fine in XP, buggered in Vista with same screen corruption, and also buggered in Win7.

Unfortunate, but you deserve a new graphics card - go on, treat yourself!

 

[sephirot]

Suppose I would buy and AGP graphic card. Theres too much difference between an Asus Radeon AH3450 HDMI 512MB GDDR2 AGP and a Radeon HD 3650 512MB?

The difference of prices is 10€.

 

[whest]

Those dots could they be artifacts from overclocking the card - someone else maybe - you could check to see its running at default clock and memory frequency in ati overdrive.

 

[sephirot]

I've never did any overclock of any kind.