First post, by Kahenraz
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- l33t
I bought an MSI GeForce FX 5500 that appears to work but can also send the system into a BSOD. OpenGL works. Even the dxdiag DirectX tests work. But if I launch a benchmark or game that uses Direct3D like Unreal or 3DMark99, the system will crash.
I suspected that this was a counterfeit 5200 with a dodgy flash to a 5500 that only partially worked so I forced it to use those drivers and everything was stable. Interestingly, this didn't change the clock speeds so I'm not sure what changed within the driver.
I then removes the heatsink expecting to find a 5200 die but it is clearly etched as 5500. I have another FX 5500 by BFG which works fine when swapped in. I don't know what the deal is with this card.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?