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    In relation to a 7900gs in my E1705...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by spookyu, Oct 17, 2007.

  1. spookyu

    spookyu NBR Zombie Expert

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    I OCed my 7900gs months and months ago, it was COMPLETELY stable for the longest time, something recently went haywire though. I assume the video ram on my card is deteriorating, I get read memory errors (already checked if its my ram, no it isn't I replaced it and have run every diagnostic I could possibly find). Its not drivers, been through enough of them to realize that. My temps aren't bad at all so its not as simple as that. I'm fairly certain that it is my video ram, and the best solution would be to underclock a bit. Hah...that's all fine and dandy I can do that on my own with this flash disk I downloaded from stormlifter's site...except I can't. I was just going through the different .roms included on the disk...and the lowest clock speed they have is 400/500...that's still above the stock speed and its not low enough to make my problem go away. I figure if I can get it to like 400/450 or 400/400 (on second thought I can still increase the core clock speed, it doesnt really affect that) then my problem should go away (the problem being read memory errors and graphical artifacts galore). Now, my question is, does anyone know another way to change my clock speeds? I'm only familiar with this way of doing it.

    Thanks for your time if you respond, I originally posted something like this on the 7900gs OC thread but no one will respond. Also...if you could spare me lecture on "the dangers of overclocking", I've heard the warnings and understood them, and I'm not crying after the fact, simply asking on how to take a course of action that I've already figured out.

    Cheers
    Spookyu
     
    spookyu, Oct 17, 2007
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    odin243 Notebook Prophet

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    odin243, Oct 17, 2007
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  3. spookyu

    spookyu NBR Zombie Expert

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    AhHAH! That might be exactly what I need, thank you. I'll tell you if I figured something out. Thanks again.
     
    spookyu, Oct 17, 2007
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    Does it still go haywire when you revert to stock speeds?

    If it does, you might have a hardware problem.
     
    Burning Balls, Oct 17, 2007
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    spookyu NBR Zombie Expert

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    As I said I don't have a .rom to change it back to clock speeds (that's what I'm trying to acomplish). And im 99.9% sure it IS a hardware problem.
     
    spookyu, Oct 18, 2007
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