Having found out with your assistance that my X1950 is duff I am trying to see if it can be rescued. The card crashes in Furmark after about 90secs and CCC shows the GPU temp at that time as being about 54 degrees C. Am I right in thinking that means overheating is not the problem. Also a bad sign is it will not run my 17" CRT at 1280x1024. All the drivers are recently loaded and up to date and I know other hardware components are not to blame.
54 sounds fine. does it only crash in futuremark ? what about games ? about the CRT ? what res and refresh is present before you plug it in maybe its not support. my old CRT max refresh was 60hz back in the day but my LCD was 75Hz so u cant just plug it in.
It crashes in games too. The CRT is ok as it has supported these resolutions before. I can force it to 1280x1024 in CCC but only at 60Hz. To be fair its presets do not exceed 1024x768 at 85 Hz. However it monitor is not the main issue. The main problem is the frequrncy that VPU recover kicks in.
i remember reading your thread and you checked all the power connectors etc didint you and tried it in another machine ? if it still crashes then i think maybe the cards had it. does it still crash if you change which DVI/VGA port you use ? (just a thought)
The X1950 cards were kinda notorious for being DOA and causing crashes after about 6 months of use... so this one might just be dead or dying. About a year and a half ago I got a batch of Sapphire X1950XTX's and a lot of them were faulty right out of the box. Manufacturing processes were to blame and the problem was eventually fixed, although it was too late in the products life cycle as ATI were phasing them out by that stage.
Yes it is a Pro version. It is set to 621Mhz on the VPU and 742Mhz on the memory. I think this is a HIS factory overclock
