3.8 cats 9800 overheating the truth !!

**CrapshoT** · 18-10-2003, 12:35 AM

following on from yesterdays worrying news just found this the guys an ati official spokesperson

http://www.elitebastards.com/#news2344
sorry about the swear word in the link

**m0dm0** · 18-10-2003, 12:39 AM

hmm, maybe this is related to problems ive been having with my monitor?

it keeps complaining about refresh rates and doing weird things

m0.

**Knoxville** · 18-10-2003, 01:30 AM

Is you monitor complaining about refresh rates of 174mhz when you try to load windows?

**Agent** · 18-10-2003, 01:47 AM

Careful - there is reports of monitors dieing with the new drivers ( i think its only one case, well ATI claims this anyway )

**Knoxville** · 18-10-2003, 01:49 AM

That worries me as it was after i installed the 3.8 cats iirc that my monitor wouldn't display xp due to the refresh being above 174mhz :/

If i had a hdd to back up to i'd reinstall fully with 3.7's, but i'm stuck with the onboard for now

**SilentDeath** · 18-10-2003, 05:22 AM

i had corruption on my 9700np i think (i have 3.8 atm), but it was only for a few seconds at end of map in cs, green, blue, red and a white line stuck out from the players that were on the screen. my case temp is hot atm and im using a worse than stock cooler so i wasnt suprised, but ive cooled it down a bit now, seems fine

**m0dm0** · 18-10-2003, 01:05 PM

mine has locked out the OSM (on screen menu) and during boot up the monitor complains about the refresh rate

its a mitsubishi Diamond Pro 930SB btw

What can i do?

m0.

**Trash Man** · 18-10-2003, 03:53 PM

I had no problems what so ever when I was running the 3.8's, no monitor trouble, no GFX troubles and no increased heat.

**Darkmatter** · 18-10-2003, 04:00 PM

There has been more than one complaint of this, visit rage3d's forums. "Touch Wood" I personally haven't had any trouble but it is a rather worrying revelation

I dont have a direct link but you will find on the rage forums some speculation as to what is causing the problem and what to do to correct it.

**Bindibadgi** · 18-10-2003, 06:05 PM

Originally posted by Trash Man
I had no problems what so ever when I was running the 3.8's, no monitor trouble, no GFX troubles and no increased heat.

same.. so far

**Stewart** · 18-10-2003, 06:15 PM

I also had no troubles; my monitor, 3d card and everything else worked as normal.

Well... I say 'no trouble', my PC did clap up completely a few days later, but I doubt that was releated to the Cat 3.8s.

**Stringent** · 18-10-2003, 08:23 PM

Can't you guys just roll back the driver to 3.7??

meh, can tell Im an NVIDIA person!

**Dave_07** · 18-10-2003, 11:05 PM

LOL, and just the other day we were all saying to the Niv peeps that ATi Drivers were fine, hehe. Sod's law.. It's a B***h ain't it.

**Knoxville** · 19-10-2003, 04:51 PM

I fixed this last night, boot into safe mode with networking and download the omega drivers based on the cat 3.7's

Installed em, rebooted and i was laughing

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