Graphics prob

Today I started to OC my Asus 9800XT. It all started out well but when I ran 3dMark01 it stopped and I had to manually shut down the comp. Then I went out for some hours and came back to my comp and then it rebooted as fast as I came into windows. I went to Safe mode to download Radlinker(I oced with ATITool) but I wasn't allowed to install it in Safe mode so I rebooted and now it won't even go through BIOS. It won't even beep and the screen is black. Can anyone help me please??

OOh dear that is not good mhm...So you can't even get into safe mode again? hm...hopefully Akh can help you...

Oooh. Try clearing the CMOS see if that'll help any.

you proly burned your card right out man....way to go! lesson of the day: Don't over clock when you don't know what your doing.... :bucky!:

Pull the battery to the mobo, pull the CMOS jumper. See if that helps.

How much did you OC it from the default values?

I know that on NVIDIA cards, when rebooting, press CTRL and hold it, should reset the clock rates to default speeds.

Originally posted by embracedeath@Jun 21 2005, 09:05 PM
:thumbup: Pull the battery and clear the CMOS jumper. I use to do it all the time when my overclocks failed. Simple fix

lol you don't need to pull the battery, thats why they put the jumper there dude...just clear the cmos jumper, if you keep pulling out and putting back in the battery your gonna mess something up, happened to me a long time ago on old mother board(snaped the little plastic tab that hold the friggin battery in) kinda sucked...lol

Originally posted by Hasse@Jun 21 2005, 07:16 PM
Today I started to OC my Asus 9800XT. It all started out well but when I ran 3dMark01 it stopped and I had to manually shut down the comp. Then I went out for some hours and came back to my comp and then it rebooted as fast as I came into windows. I went to Safe mode to download Radlinker(I oced with ATITool) but I wasn't allowed to install it in Safe mode so I rebooted and now it won't even go through BIOS. It won't even beep and the screen is black. Can anyone help me please??

logger that is bad news,
Have you got a old pci/agp grfx card that you can plug in to make sure its not the 9800xt thats erm...fried?


Reading over your post i was hoping you hadn't used ati tool until of course you stated you had.
I marginally tweaked my old 9800pro using ati tool(memory 340-360)(core 380-390)
No matter what i tryed the default core/memory clock would not go back to default infact after rebooting the core/memory clocks ramped upto to 362/397.
Using radlinker i could set the core/memory to default ticking the box to save the settings on boot up although once rebooted the core/memory would return to 362/397.
I reset the cmos,reseated the card,reformatted xp pro,used various different drivers and oc'ing tools but nothing worked ALLWAYS defaulting to 362/397.
Any graphics intensive game(hl2,doom3,riddick,farcry)would crash within minutes of play leaving me staring at a black screen with the message can't find signal staring back.
I've read a few horror storeys involving ati tool i'd advise peeps to use a simpler oc'ing tool such as radlinker if they only want up the mhz of the core and memory.
Most peeps swear by ati tool but if you don't fully know what your doing it has to many pointless and dangerous options=more possibilty to screw your card.

In Techpowerups own words below is a change log of the latest"stable"version makes me think i wouldn't like to use an unstable version.
Wait on a minute i did use an unstable version and in return it screwed my card bigtime i just hope it hasn't nortoned yours.
Best of luck.




Registry keys changed, you will lose your settings once, when upgrading
When multiple ATI cards are installed, you can now select the one to use
Crash issues when returning from standby/hibernate with Catalyst 4.8+ fixed
Added Memory Timings options to profile
Added Gamma options to profile
Added option to control artifact detection sensitivity
ATITool will now try to use the D3D device which matches the active card
Temperature monitoring and fan control works on X800 AIW now
Added thermal monitoring support for X800XL
Added "Do not change PWM frequency" switch for X850 fan control
Added support for some new X850 boards
Fixed temp. monitoring on X850
Fixed fan control noise on X850
Added support for R420GL
Fixed AMD64 issues
Added option "Beep on artifact"
Fixed crash issue when opening Memory Timings Editor window more than once
Fixed memory timings editor's MEM_TRFC extra options with garbled characters after the list of correct options
Completely rewritten Kernel Mode Driver, it's no longer a legacy NT4-style driver
Default profile always in list, even when profiles.ini does not exist
Fixed incorrect log output when artifact detected during scan for artifacts
Added refresh rate fix
Warning displayed when "Alternate Pixel Center" is enabled
ATITool can now be removed via Control Panel, Software
Fixed some issues when running on systems without ATI card
Added warning when not installing as Administrator
Fixed problems when using ATITool on RS480 motherboard
Fixed problems when using ATITool with RIO550 tv card
Added Geometry Instancing option
Removed annoying logging message from log file
Video card detection problem fixed (bus# > 8)
Fixed possible race condition in overclocking/scanning code
Fixed memory timings crash for R480
Safety frequency range is now filled with current values when enabled for the first time

Well I cleared the CMOS and rebooted and it worked Before it nortoned up I uninstalled ATITool so now it's back to Radlinker. SOMEONE (Won't say any name) on this forum said that ATITool was good...... But lesson learned so we can all move on

Originally posted by Hasse@Jun 21 2005, 10:56 PM
Well I cleared the CMOS and rebooted and it worked Before it nortoned up I uninstalled ATITool so now it's back to Radlinker. SOMEONE (Won't say any name) on this forum said that ATITool was good...... But lesson learned so we can all move on

Nice one :thumbup:
I thought you may of been in trouble....
Good to hear no harm was done :clap:

stop nortoning over clocking man! theres no game out that requires a 9800xt to be over clocked whats with you man?