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[Elusive]

hey guys im gettin settled in boston. buyin real expensive toys and whatnot. (more on this later). anyhow i setup a PC with a rad9700pro i bought off a friend for $40. quake 3 crashes with this error. then the monitor goes dead. sometimes says signal out of range. ive attached a pic of the error. i exited quake (it was still running after the display went dead) and the monitor turned back on. its either the vid card or the cheap motherboard its hooked up to. any ideas???

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[|DRC| Marblecake]

Set your refresh rate lower.
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[Elusive]

[|DRC| Messiah]

you have the lastest drivers? What speed is your agp slot? is the card compatable with the slot?

sell the card and get an nvidia 6800
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[|DRC| Wartex]

6800 blows ass.

Out of range means your vid card is generating refres rate your mon cannot support.

1) Get the the vid driver thats 1-2 versions previous to latest release.
2) Run quake with "+set r_mode 4 +set r_displayrefresh 60"
3) MUST HAVE: Correct monitor driver.

Install VNC I can dig in your settings, it's prolly something stupid like Vsync on somewhere etc.
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[|DRC| Messiah]

|DRC| Wartex wrote:

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6800 blows ass.

YOU blow ass bitch. I have the Nvidia Geforce 6800 gt 256 ddr3 1ghz and I like it.

[|DRC| Wartex]

|DRC| Messiah wrote:

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|DRC| Wartex wrote:

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6800 blows ass.

YOU blow ass bitch. I have the Nvidia Geforce 6800 gt 256 ddr3 1ghz and I like it.

Baaaaah! The everlasting "Wartex bashes shit of other people"!

Get 2 ATI X600 in CrossFire for about the same price and they will rip it another asshole.

And if you get 2 X850XT, then even 6800OC in SLI will still blow ass against them.

[Elusive]

mess: the slot said agp 4x and the card says it can do all modes
so i thought it would be ok

wart: ill look for the old vid card drivers tomorrow,
60hz refresh fuck that! it seems to be stable at 1024 at 85hz in windows.

i got the monitor drivers, i dont think its the prob but ill install them soon theres a .inf a .icm and a .cat file and i dont know what to run them with

[|DRC| Marblecake]

Remember 8x agp is backwards compatible with 4x. Make sure Anti aliasing is off also. Did you try to OC this card by chance????

[|DRC| Wartex]

|DRC| Elusive wrote:

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wart: ill look for the old vid card drivers tomorrow, 60hz refresh fuck that! it seems to be stable at 1024 at 85hz in windows.

I said just to run it in "safe" mode. And if your picture looks "ok" at 85 it doesn't mean anything, I clocked my monitor to 155 Hz at 1024x768 using a special ATI card and it looked fine, but if I left it at that or tried it in OpenGL apps it wouldn't work and fry the monitor on top of that. And, not everyone has same monitor as you.

[Elusive]

ive had it happen @ 60hz too, same prob tho.
i installed catalyst version 5.4 (newest is 5.6) with the 930sb display drivers it still has the same problem. seems that if i hang out and wait for the error message to come up i can keep playing. i just have to click on the game screen and reset the gamma

marble i havent modded this card, i bought it used tho

[|DRC| Marblecake]

Someone probably thought they were hardware god and oc'd the piss out of a card that cant handle it. Do you get like pink lines or greens lines. Even blocks appearing on your monitor. Also what are you using for grfx cooling.

[|DRC| Iceman]

|DRC| Elusive wrote:

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