RivaTuner on my G1

I installed RivaTuner to overclock my Gfx Card, I overclocked it but now I get a bunch of red dots and red stuff almost all over my screen when I play games, and a little when on my desktop... I have a G1Sn-X1 and a Geforce 9500M GS. Some help please?

 

Its called "artifacts", basically means your overclock is not stable.

 

No matter how low or high I overclock it or something, it still keeps showing red dots from time to time, often that is. Since I didn't feel like it changed much I wanted to get rid of the Rivatuner, it still showed them after I uninstalled Rivatuner. It did say it "detected an unsupported driver", but I have the latest Rivatuner and there is no way to get a better driver update for my graphics card since I have the latest one from the manufacturer's site... Please help me get rid of these or somehow make a stable overclocking.

 

Return your GPU clocks to normal, and see if artifacts still persist. If not, then you can start slowly overclock your way up. Overclocking GPU is a lot harder than CPU, as you need to adjust all GPU core, shader, and VRAM at the same time. Be patient with it. Once you overclock to a seemingly stable point, run 3DMark for at least 3~4 hours, continuously.

If artifacts still persist, you may consider flashing your GPU's BIOS, or consider filing a RMA form.

 

If the slowly adjusting clock speeds dont work then can you tell me how to flash my GPU's BIOS or if it's long, a link to a good guide?

 

Overclocking IS a slow process to begin with. Especially with GPU, its very difficult.

However, if you still want to give this a shot, you can try this:
http://www.xcpus.com/forums/overclocking/666-nvidia-based-graphics-cards-overclocking-guide.html

However, if you're not familiar with overclocking, I highly recommend sticking to the stock clocks. Especially with notebook graphic cards' limits in thermal dissipation, and limited power supply, it could be disastrous.

 

The link you gave me uses an older Rivatuner. The new one for some reason doesn't have the Fan tab. Also, the new one includes a Shader Clock, but that's controlled by just adjusting Core Clock. I put the everything to the lowest and it seems to show less red dots... but still from time to time it shows them. Would that be because of the unsupported driver thing? Cause my driver version is 167.62 and even when I went on Asus official site there were no newer ones so I had the latest one for the 9500M GS.

 

Riva Tuner does feature a "fan" tab, its just that your notebook does not support driver level fan adjustment.

You should really clock them back to their original settings (not just lowest), and see if the card is damaged. It shouldn't be though.

And its not a driver thing. Its a MXM thing.

 

Are original settings meaning by clicking Defaults? And isn't it already overclocked no matter where it's put. Meaning like it's on lowest, isn't that already overclocked or is that even lower than before using overclocking program?

 

Anyone help please?-Bump-