- Dec 3, 2002
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This Powercolor 9700 Pro worked well for a couple years, then started artifiacting.
At fist it was rare, and could usually be fixed by a system shutdown. It started happening more over time, but I could still fix it with a reboot/replug monitor/reseat the card.
But now I can't get it to go away. I can even underclock the card without success.
The artifacting is all over the screen, but largely in thick vertical bars with many pixels in between the bars also displaying incorrectly.
Is there anything I can do about it? Or should I just trash it and buy a new card? Sucks to spend money on an AGP card for this old system, but I've got some 3D game development work that I'd like to be able to do on my desktop as well as my laptop... and the broken 9700 is kinda messing things up.
At fist it was rare, and could usually be fixed by a system shutdown. It started happening more over time, but I could still fix it with a reboot/replug monitor/reseat the card.
But now I can't get it to go away. I can even underclock the card without success.
The artifacting is all over the screen, but largely in thick vertical bars with many pixels in between the bars also displaying incorrectly.
Is there anything I can do about it? Or should I just trash it and buy a new card? Sucks to spend money on an AGP card for this old system, but I've got some 3D game development work that I'd like to be able to do on my desktop as well as my laptop... and the broken 9700 is kinda messing things up.