ATI 2700 & Pink Bands

[Guyon]

I bought a ATI RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB on ebay. Sometimes it works great for days, then other times I get wide pink bands running down my screen. I may take 1 to 25 reboots to fix it. I have an Avitron monitor, but trying another monitor I get the same banding. Any suggestions? I have tried the most current Driver and the previous one.

 

[cleeve]

Might be a heat problem.

But it sounds like the card itself may be dying...

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[Crashman]

I know the source of your problem: You bought the card on eBay. It's the place everyone I know unloads their junk.

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[phial]

yea

ebay is where everyone sells their video cards that wont operate at normal operating temps ( meaning, in a case that has one or less fans, because thats what manufactureers incude)




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[endyen]

Does it have DVI and a vga adapter? Try these, just to rule out a socket problem.

 

[Guyon]

OK you Guys are pretty smart. i did get the card form ebay but, I had the guy replace it with a second one and got different problems (high artifacing). So I finally went out and bought a factory fresh 9600XT, which was all I could afford, and it is running solid, crisp and sharp.
Nice Call guys.

 

[TheRod]

You've learned the hard way! Don't trust ebay for electronics...

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