Ok, story as follows: I have to remind myself that 1) metal conducts electricity 2) it's not good idea to fiddle around inside pc with screwdriver, specially when it may touch graphics card's core and cause some sparks to fly... Card itself is Sapphire 9600PRO 128mb. As mentioned, i caused accidentally fireworks on that card, scredriver probably shorted out something, or not. Card still works (still, pc froze after that 'touch of death' but it worked fine after rebooting..., i get no artefacts in 3dmark2001 and 3dmark2003. Games* also run without artefacts (*=worms world party, sim city 4, ms flight sim). Still, is there a way to find out, have i damaged the card permanently or not at all? oh btw, is this normal that 3dmark200* show memory of 128mb card as follows: "Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc. (Omega 2.5.51) Name: SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 PRO ATLANTIS (Omega 2.5.51) Total Local Video Memory: 128 MB Total Local Texture Memory: 128 MB Total AGP Memory: 118 MB Display Driver: ati2dvag.d" Is that 118mb normal?
Hmmm...I think that the 118MB is the AGP Aparture size, nothing related with the card itself I belive (corect me if I'm wrong) Cheers, Mike
