AIW 9700 Pro and Wavy Display

John Doe

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Jan 20, 2003, 3:37:00 PM1/20/03

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This has been my first ATI card...I've been mainly an NVidia user...and this
may be my last ATI card. The desktop display seems to go 'wavy' every so
often - like steam rising over hot pavement. It's not a monitor problem, as
I have tried a different one. Seems to be worse when I am watching TV. I put
the card in a different computer and got the same result. Anyone else have
this problem? Is the card defective or was it designed to be defective?

430 Watt Enermax
AMD 1600+ XP
GA-7VAXP V1.1
256MB Corsair PC3200 DDR

John Doe

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Jan 20, 2003, 5:20:04 PM1/20/03

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ARGGGHHH.....I have starting reading posts at Rage3D and apparently this is
a KNOWN issue with 9700 cards. If I had known that before I bought it I
would have stuck with NVida...someone shoot me.

MAD

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Jan 20, 2003, 5:27:35 PM1/20/03

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My AIW 9700 does the same thing at times but because of it's feature
set it's worth it for me. I bought it to capture DVD quality video on
burn it on DVD and it does that well.

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Kirby Crosby

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Jan 20, 2003, 6:28:12 PM1/20/03

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i have one and havent had a problem with mine.
is your refresh rate stuck at 60?

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MAD

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Jan 20, 2003, 6:37:25 PM1/20/03

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No mines at 75

John Doe

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Jan 20, 2003, 9:31:50 PM1/20/03

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Seems to be a heat related problem. When I run videos on my desktop it
starts up but goes away if I am not doing anything.

Stephen

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Jan 20, 2003, 11:55:13 PM1/20/03

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I think it might be interference. I get it on my card on/off. One
thing that might help is moving your sound card to the furthest pci slot
away from the radeon.

Other people seem to have success by using the DVI adapter and running
the monitor from dvi port.

Stephen

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Jan 20, 2003, 11:55:45 PM1/20/03

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Daniel Tonks

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Jan 21, 2003, 2:42:13 AM1/21/03

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"MAD" <silas...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> No mines at 75

Up your refresh rate. I've seen it happen at 75Hz when I first bought the
card, but I've NEVER seen it since bumping my refresh rate up to 90Hz or
100Hz on the desktop and in games.

- Daniel

John Doe

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Jan 28, 2003, 9:32:53 AM1/28/03

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I can reduce the problem on the desktop by upping the refreshrate, but there
is a more pronounced effect with the TV tuner which I cannot remove.

Eric Witte

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Jan 29, 2003, 9:52:19 PM1/29/03

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"John Doe" <over...@spamme.com> wrote in message news:<3qmdnec55PW...@giganews.com>...

> ARGGGHHH.....I have starting reading posts at Rage3D and apparently this is
> a KNOWN issue with 9700 cards. If I had known that before I bought it I
> would have stuck with NVida...someone shoot me.
>

An earlier Catalyst version had the fix. It was a checkbox to reduce
dvi frequency for high resolution displays. If someone knows how to
do this with the new drivers let me know :) Hopefully there is a
registry key.

Eric

Michael

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Jan 30, 2003, 12:09:12 AM1/30/03

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It's a checkbox on one of the advanced tabs, options in fact is where it is.
Ciao.

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Eric Witte

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Jan 30, 2003, 10:11:34 AM1/30/03

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"Michael" <res0...@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<Yr2_9.27932$uR....@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>...

> It's a checkbox on one of the advanced tabs, options in fact is where it is.
> Ciao.

That is where it was with 2.5 . I can't find it with the newer Catalyst drivers.

Michael

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Jan 31, 2003, 12:35:54 AM1/31/03

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Well, I'm running 3.0 and directx 9 and mmc 8.0 and it's right there.....
FWIW

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Eric Witte

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Jan 31, 2003, 8:41:14 AM1/31/03

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"Michael" <spambamre...@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<_Wn_9.3055$x63....@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>...

> Well, I'm running 3.0 and directx 9 and mmc 8.0 and it's right there.....
> FWIW

You don't happen to notice a change in the registry when you flip it on do you :)

Michael

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Jan 31, 2003, 8:39:47 PM1/31/03

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I don't use it. I just stated where it is.

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John Doe

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Feb 1, 2003, 3:10:25 PM2/1/03

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That doesn't help people using the DVI-to-VGA connector.

I learned that if you go to advanced-> displays->monitor->adjustments and
click the vertical screen size minus button once, it increases your refresh
rate by a fraction and the wavy lines disappear!

Eric Witte

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Feb 2, 2003, 1:13:27 PM2/2/03

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"John Doe" <over...@spamme.com> wrote in message news:<qvCdnf9mvZ7...@giganews.com>...

> That doesn't help people using the DVI-to-VGA connector.
>
> I learned that if you go to advanced-> displays->monitor->adjustments and
> click the vertical screen size minus button once, it increases your refresh
> rate by a fraction and the wavy lines disappear!

I have a 20.1" LCD on the DVI (no adapter). It does not let me change
these settings. Never mind. That is not my problem. It was my
problem with the 8500 but I'm not using that anymore. I had to go
back to format to get it back then :)

Eric