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RADEON X300 Intermittent Resolution Switching
I have used the X300 card, (a gift from my son - a gamer), happily for nearly three months without a problem in both XP and LINUX.
The other day in XP the screen went blank (black) and XP eventually rebooted.
After some experiments I discovered in LINUX that the card appears to be randomly switching H & V sync frequencies. In LINUX the desktop blacked out and the monitor came up with
so I switched to a console .. OK screen fine. Switched back to GUI and bingo! Screen back up again.
Had to do this several times then it settled down -- for five hours, yet.
Over the last couple of days the problem got apparently worse sometimes not even able to boot.
I upgraded the X300 drivers - no change.
I unloaded the drivers and am using XP's native drivers without any failures though screen refresh is really poor.
So. Am I looking at an X300 hardware failure? X300 firmware failure?
Motherboard failure?
Any clues, please?
The other day in XP the screen went blank (black) and XP eventually rebooted.
After some experiments I discovered in LINUX that the card appears to be randomly switching H & V sync frequencies. In LINUX the desktop blacked out and the monitor came up with
Code:
... out of range H:91.2KHz V:170.2Hz
Had to do this several times then it settled down -- for five hours, yet.
Over the last couple of days the problem got apparently worse sometimes not even able to boot.
I upgraded the X300 drivers - no change.
I unloaded the drivers and am using XP's native drivers without any failures though screen refresh is really poor.
So. Am I looking at an X300 hardware failure? X300 firmware failure?
Motherboard failure?
Any clues, please?