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ATI Radeon 7500 - dead?

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First post, by retro games 100

Posted on 2010-01-27, 18:44

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Card: Gigabyte GV-AR64S, AGP, 64MB; (Radeon 7500).

Problem: I switch on power, then on the BIOS POST screen, the characters are a weird mixture of white and light blue. Then, when the Windows 98 splash screen appears, it's all messed up looking. I set the AGP "speed mode" inside the BIOS set up area to 1x, and then 2x, but I get the same thing. Is this gfx card dead, or is it worth trying it in another mobo? (I'm currently messing about with a VIA KT133A based Epox EP-8KTA3+PRO board.)

Thanks for any comments.

Reply 1 of 3, by swaaye

Posted on 2010-01-27, 19:00

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sounds dead to me.

Reply 2 of 3, by ux-3

Posted on 2010-01-27, 19:09

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I have seen such effects with a GF4 before. Try another PSU before you dump it.

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Reply 3 of 3, by fillosaurus

Posted on 2010-02-13, 15:23

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Try to re-flash the card's BIOS. Worked for me several times.
I also have a GF4 and a Voodoo Banshee, whose previous owners put copius amounts of grease betwen the chip and radiating cooler...
OH THE HORROR!!! Those idiots used insulating grease instead of thermal grease. Until I cleaned all that insulating white grease and put regular thermoconductive silver paste the cards overheated and displayed strange characters and garbled image. Now they are working fine, and I am not sorry for paying around $ 1.60 on 1.5 grams of silver paste.

Y2K box: AMD Athlon K75 (second generation slot A)@700, ASUS K7M motherboard, 256 MB SDRAM, ATI Radeon 7500+2xVoodoo2 in SLI, SB Live! 5.1, VIA USB 2.0 PCI card, 40 GB Seagate HDD.
WIP: external midi module based on NEC wavetable (Yamaha clone)

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