Leadtek a400 6800 NU crashes unless VSYNC enabled!

[phantom1979]

Sorry to drag this issue up again but im still having this problem.. ( 2 months now and still no resolution )

If I try to play games such as

the suffering,
Far cry,
Ground control 2,
Gunmetal,

or benchmarking progs

3dmarks 2001 SE,
Bloodshader,
Fill rate test in 3dmarks 03'

I get crashes.
The crashes happen about 10 seconds in to the intro animations, when it loks up, freezes the sound and produces artifacts on screen. The artifacts vary from massive blurring, tearing, blank screens etc....
It occasionaly unfreezes for a few seconds then locks up again.

If Vsync is forced in all applications, this problem doesnt occur.

Ive tried ALL Availiable Nvidia drivers, ( now using whql's )
Flashed Bios on card,
Flashed Mobo,
Upgraded AGP driver,
Upgraded via 4 in 1's
tried DX 9.0 9.0b 9.0c,
removing all non essential components from my PC,
Underclocking GPU and CPU,
Overclocking GPU and CPU,
ensuring bios clock frequencies are identical for 2d/3d,
changing Agp aperture size,
toggling sideband adressing,
toggllng fast writes....etc etc etc

ive tried EVERYTHING I can think of and even spent a fotune on the phone to leadtek in the Netherlands. They said they dont know what the problem is....

If anyone has had this problem ( i saw a few others with similar problems but cant find the posts now ) and has fixed it, please let me know how =(

ATI is looking mighty fine right now.

 

[ChipDeath]

What are the rest of your System specs?

Are you sure it's fine with v-sync, and doesn't just take longer to crash?

Have you tried different motherboard drivers too?

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Epox 8RDA+ V1.1 w/ Custom NB HS
XP1700+ @200x10 (~2Ghz), 1.4 Vcore
2x256Mb Corsair PC3200LL 2-2-2-4
Sapphire 9800Pro @412/740

 

[julesjt]

I am assuming that you already took a card back and got a new one to eliminate it being a defective card?

 

[phantom1979]

VSync makes it work perfectly. Havent had a crash with it enabled.

And yes I have returned the card. so the batch seems to be faulty and leadtek are totally uninterested. They told me to return it again for a refund or exchange but the RMA period is up. Ill be taking a trip to the netherlands if they dont fix/swap the card.