Excalibur and ATITOOL

Moses · Post by **Moses** » 16 Nov 2004, 02:10

Having an HIS X800 Pro ICEQII, I have been keen on overclocking, although I haven't tried until now...

Firstly, I installed the Omega Drivers recently and since then my Graphics card's temperature (under the overdrive tab) has shot up from 26° to 46°C. I don't know what caused this, or if it is just Omega giving me the wrong (or right) temperature.

Secondly, I have tried using ATI Tool. I clicked find max core. It was busy testing +- 530 when I decided to check my temp under the Overdrive tab, it said 70°C, so I quickly shut down ATITool.

When soverdrive is on, my core goes to 507.

I am totally new to this all, and am unaware of what AtiTool it supposed to do. Surely it should be monitoring my temp as well? When does it decide that is has found the max core clock? when my GPU melts?

THanks for the help...

If anyone else has this card, could you let me know what you have managed to overclock to?

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 16 Nov 2004, 10:31

No, when it detects artifacts or when you GPU cannot go any further because of heat problems. It has happened to people before that problems occured using ATI Tool, but for me it is a blessing!!
Uninstall the omega drivers and then reinstall your old drivers (or newer version drivers). Re-check the temps of your card, then run Find Max Core/Mem for about 20-30 Mins (if possible).

Maybe you should get another Monitor to check your temps ~ just to be sure.

Moses · Post by **Moses** » 16 Nov 2004, 10:35

Trouble was, the Catalyst drivers don't work. Well the do work, but the actual control center doesn't work - It just can't be opened. (I do have the .net fix)

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 16 Nov 2004, 10:39

oo I remember your post, I told you to Uninstall drivers, then use Driver Cleaner 3 to find any last drivers. Did you do that? Also, Try the Catalyst 4.8 or 4.7, I would have to say they are the most stable drivers around. I'm using 4.8 now.

Moses · Post by **Moses** » 16 Nov 2004, 10:55

yeah, I have had this erratic problem since they introduced the Control Center. I did not use driver cleaner, but I did follow some other tweak guide and I manually deleted lots of files.

I'd prefer to use the latest drivers as I have significant performance increases in later driver releases...

Demoraliser · Post by **Demoraliser** » 16 Nov 2004, 11:41

hmm...i have the same problem. Have dotnet fix and patch but that control center just wont open. And now, no matter what drivers i have, my pc just hangs when i shut down...the windows is shutting down screen stays indefinitely....

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 16 Nov 2004, 20:08

The 4.9 and 4.10 drivers do the same to me, thats why im using 4.8

legit · Post by **legit** » 17 Nov 2004, 20:09

ADV4NCED wrote:The 4.9 and 4.10 drivers do the same to me, thats why im using 4.8

that coz, u OCed ur card til it caught fire!!!!!!, u lil newb

Mephesto-AF- · Post by **Mephesto-AF-** » 22 Nov 2004, 04:07

Just e-mail ATI support with all your driver probs, they get billions a month. 8O

We help them make the drivers better that way!!