Is there GFX diag tool?

[Zoidberg]

Hello all

A while ago I upgraded my graphics card and recently I bought a few extra bits and pieces to make use of the old one in a second pc.

It is a sapphire x1950 pro 256MB pci-e, anyway having assembled my second pc installed the OS and drivers etc i ran some graphics stress test (no overclocking) all of which crash after 5 or so seconds in.

I assumed it was a heat issue and so bought a replacement heatsink and fan (zalman vf700-ALCu)

It is now as cool as a cucumber 32c at idle to 40 odd under stress (so sayeth GPUZ)

but the crashing remains.

I have managed to play HL2 for an hour or so with decent frame rates.

Incidentally It has been sat in draw for many months in its original packaging beforehand.


so I wondering if there is a method of finding out if the card is damaged or whether the problem lies in software.


ABIT LG-95C
Intel E2200
2gb ddr2 667
sapphire x1950 pro 256mb pci-e

All help is greatly appreciated.

I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, 1st post.

[newls1]

after the OS was finished installing, your first software install was the INTEL INF drivers correct? Then go to windows update, and update windows, then install all other drivers.....

[Zoidberg]

Windows-chipset drivers-graphics drivers-windows update

is what I did

Are you saying the last two should be reversed?

[newls1]

im sure what you did is OK, however I have always done it this way:

1 install XP
2 install intel inf files
3 install lan driver
4 completely update windows (this takes multiple times of hitting update, and restarts)
5 install the newest DX update from MS downloads (typically about 70mb's worth of updates.
6 then install sound card driver
7 install GPU driver(s)

I find doing it this way allows my GPU to NOT USE the same IRQ with anything else. If I install my sound card before the GPU, they will share the same IRQ and I get micro-stutters it seems from this.