About 1,5 years ago I bought myself a brand new 9700 card and I've loved every single moment with it. Great FPS for the money spent and great 2D/3D quality and a lovely TV-output. After a few weeks the sound from the fan made me crazy so I decided to install Zalman's passive heatsink. A friend of mine helped me out and the card was dead silent and still going strong and I was a very happy man...
Lately I haven't been playing as much as I used to but a few days ago I bought Empire Earth II. I installed it, patched it and started it out. Immediately inside the menu I noticed texture corruption (and of course also in the game itself). I reinstall my Catalyst drivers, tried Omega's etc etc but the problem was still there. I then fired up Call of Duty and 3dMark - same thing! I got scared and went to my local computer workshop. They looked at it and immediately saw that the heatsink was not installed correctly in the first place. It didn't connect with the core they way it should and probably the heat had damaged it.
Now I'm sitting here, unable to play games...
Is there a 2 year warranty for ATI cards?
Thanks!