adding ramsinks is about as pointless as adding stickers to your car
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I disagree, I definately felt a lot of heat from the RAM on the Parehlia when I was pulling it out. It could definately use some additional cooling. (Unless mine is a lemon, thus an exception)Originally posted by DGhost
the memory is running under spec, and considering the fact that other BGA style memory modules do not even get hot to the touch when running at specified speeds (or even above specified speeds), adding ramsinks is about as pointless as adding stickers to your car. granted, they could be using extreme memory timings, but still....
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This corruption of the scren was exactly the same I had at work with a G400. It was a driver issue. I had one not for WinXP but only win2000. I changed the driver and never had the problem again.Babylonian TalmudA person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it,
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hmm... the memory on just about every video card i have tried that uses 275MHz DDR memory generally doesn't get all that hot... the 8500 i have right now uses 3.6ns memory @275mhz and it certainly doesn't get hot... most of the GF4's are the same way...Originally posted by isochar
I disagree, I definately felt a lot of heat from the RAM on the Parehlia when I was pulling it out. It could definately use some additional cooling. (Unless mine is a lemon, thus an exception)
does not mean that Matrox isn't using more intense memory timings though. pretty much impossible to say as i have no experience with the P so far...
my guess might be a lemon card, or possibly a driver issue."And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz
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Parelia does get pretty toasty, ram included.
I put ramsinks on mine.Core2 Duo E7500 2.93, Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, 4gig 1066 DDR2, 1gig Asus ENGTS250, SB X-Fi Gamer ,WD Caviar Black 1tb, Plextor PX-880SA, Dual Samsung 2494sComment
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What ram sinks did you use on the card?Fenrir(AVA)
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Ant,
Try reinstalling your windows .
But before reinstalling remove every card you don't need (network cart, soundcard,modem,...)
and after installing windows
install the drivers , test the reef demo
if it works , install the other cards one by one
Ok I don't have a Parhelia, but I had some same problems that my system wouldn't boot into windows. I always got a black screen.
about the screen corruption: My brother has an ATI (boeeeh) Radeon and he got the same corruption while he was Counter-strike. He rebooted and he also has the same corruption when starting up the computer. The only time he doesn't have scrambled text is in the bios. In all other screens he has corruption.Hey! You're talking to me all wrong! It's the wrong tone! Do it again...and I'll stab you in the face with a soldering ironComment
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change your mainboard~~~~~~~~~~~~Comment
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I've reinstalled Windows XP from scratch on a freshly formatted disk. Still the same problem, everything works but the reef demo which locks the system up hard. I've notice if I enabled AGP Write Combining in my mobo BIOS I get no display in Windows unless I drop it down to 640x480.
This is on a new ASUS A7S333 mobo, no cards in the system but the Parhelia. Funny thing is the one time the previous board worked without a corrupt display the reef demo worked fine in this same system.Comment
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I have not had any problems at all with parhelia besides from figuring out what settings to use in games.Fenrir(AVA)
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The length of my life and the day of my death were fated long ago"
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ant, what power supply is in your machine? i've seen the same corruption on my friends machine with g400 & dual athlon & 1gig memory. i blame power supply, because he's got only 300w. but linux working flawlesly for months...Comment
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Try win2k, different agp app what version via gart are you using?Originally posted by Ant
I've reinstalled Windows XP from scratch on a freshly formatted disk. Still the same problem, everything works but the reef demo which locks the system up hard. I've notice if I enabled AGP Write Combining in my mobo BIOS I get no display in Windows unless I drop it down to 640x480.
This is on a new ASUS A7S333 mobo, no cards in the system but the Parhelia. Funny thing is the one time the previous board worked without a corrupt display the reef demo worked fine in this same system.
Power could also be a problem doesn't the P need a lot of whack???Comment
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The box has a 350W PS in it, the mobo has a SIS745 chipset with the drivers that came with it, not sure which version.Comment
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Ant if you are running a AMD processor make sure you installed the latest AMD AGP Miniport driver before you installed P's drivers.
Just my 2 CentsAMD Athlon 1800 XP@ 1680GHZ (only the best) on a Epox 8K7A, 512 megs PC2100DDR, Matrox Parhelia 128 AGP,Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, DSL BABY, 1250 Down/220 UP XP 2600 ProComment
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Ant the drivers for sis 745 chipset were updated on 18.06.02.
What else have you got plugged into your motherboard??Comment
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