Hey guys, im quite confused about this 5900 i have and im not sure exactly how to fix it.
I recently bought a gainward 5900xt 1100 golden sample blah blah card at newegg for 151 dollars excluding shipping. I got the card a few days later and proceeded to test it, and that is when the problems began.
It is having an odd intermittent problem that i cant quite figure out. It will run every game that my 8500 ran except that during the intros, (the 2 games i play, battlefield 1942 and dawn of war) it goes at about a half frame per second. The sound is completely normal, but the graphics litterally are a slide show. It took around 10 minutes for it just to load the ea "challenge everything" graphic on battlefield's startup, . Once it gets into the actual game, though, it runs great. I ran doom 3 demo to make sure if the cards' 3d might be shaddy, but it runs it absolutely fine.
It also acts odd in 3dmark 03. I'll start it up and it will go black and pause after i press the run benchmark button, which is normal. But instead of going black for a second or so and then moving on to the first test (the ww2 plane benchmark, cant honestly remember the name) loading screen, it will sit there black for about 10 seconds until it finally chugs onto the benchmark, which it runs fine once it gets around to it. But after the first benchmark, it takes a huge pause again, and after about 10 seconds goes onto the battle to proxycon (spelling?) loading screen, which it nevers runs. It sits for about 15 seconds with a black screen and then simply reboots.
Now normally if the card was acting like this i would simply send it back to newegg for a replacement. It is a refurb afterall so its understandable that it is probably a dud. But the messed up thing is that THIS IS the refurb, and the first one did the exact same thing ! wouldnt run 3dmark 03, would chug in game intros, etc. I remember putting artic silver 3 on my first 5900xt's gpu, and i checked to see if they just simply sent me the same card back, but nope, this one has the factory gunk on it, so i know it is a seperate one. Ive downloaded directx9 and it works correctly, so im at a complete loss for what is wrong.
Ive run the card without its molex connector in thinking that it might be my powersupply, but it still does the same thing. Ive also downclocked my duron from 2.1 ghz to 1200, and it still dosent work correctly, so im semi-ruling out the powersupply. Obviously either this batch of cards are all defective or, the more likely scenario, there is something interfering with my system. Help if you all can, cus im about to pull my hair out!:disgust:
I recently bought a gainward 5900xt 1100 golden sample blah blah card at newegg for 151 dollars excluding shipping. I got the card a few days later and proceeded to test it, and that is when the problems began.
It is having an odd intermittent problem that i cant quite figure out. It will run every game that my 8500 ran except that during the intros, (the 2 games i play, battlefield 1942 and dawn of war) it goes at about a half frame per second. The sound is completely normal, but the graphics litterally are a slide show. It took around 10 minutes for it just to load the ea "challenge everything" graphic on battlefield's startup, . Once it gets into the actual game, though, it runs great. I ran doom 3 demo to make sure if the cards' 3d might be shaddy, but it runs it absolutely fine.
It also acts odd in 3dmark 03. I'll start it up and it will go black and pause after i press the run benchmark button, which is normal. But instead of going black for a second or so and then moving on to the first test (the ww2 plane benchmark, cant honestly remember the name) loading screen, it will sit there black for about 10 seconds until it finally chugs onto the benchmark, which it runs fine once it gets around to it. But after the first benchmark, it takes a huge pause again, and after about 10 seconds goes onto the battle to proxycon (spelling?) loading screen, which it nevers runs. It sits for about 15 seconds with a black screen and then simply reboots.
Now normally if the card was acting like this i would simply send it back to newegg for a replacement. It is a refurb afterall so its understandable that it is probably a dud. But the messed up thing is that THIS IS the refurb, and the first one did the exact same thing ! wouldnt run 3dmark 03, would chug in game intros, etc. I remember putting artic silver 3 on my first 5900xt's gpu, and i checked to see if they just simply sent me the same card back, but nope, this one has the factory gunk on it, so i know it is a seperate one. Ive downloaded directx9 and it works correctly, so im at a complete loss for what is wrong.
Ive run the card without its molex connector in thinking that it might be my powersupply, but it still does the same thing. Ive also downclocked my duron from 2.1 ghz to 1200, and it still dosent work correctly, so im semi-ruling out the powersupply. Obviously either this batch of cards are all defective or, the more likely scenario, there is something interfering with my system. Help if you all can, cus im about to pull my hair out!:disgust: