HELP! What did ATT timings do to my overclock?? NOOO

Flav_cool · Feb 5, 2006, 12:54 AM

Hi,

As you may be aware I had a 450/360 overclock from 297/229.5 on a 128MB ATi X300 mobility radeon. Everything was working great, and like an idiot, I decided to get the ATi Tray Tools which comes w/ the timing settings. I messed around w/ those at stock clocks, and when I applied my overclock back, garbling! I thought, no big deal, I'll just reset timings, put back my overclock. Upon resetion of the timings (which should've happend at restart anyway), I noticed, my new overclock wouldn't even get close w/o producing errors. The GPU overclock stayed the same, but the mem gets to ~300 only! I am inclined to think some memory timings are still not as they used to be because when benchmarking w/ ATT at stock clocks, it gets ~1510 and it should get ~1487 (as it did bfr w/ stock clocks bfr I messed w/ the timings).

I uninstalled ATT, uninstalled drivers, driver cleaner pro'ed, reinstalleld omega drivers + ATT (the one that comes w/ omega's doesn't have the timing option.)

WTF should I do??

H3X4D3C1M4L · Feb 5, 2006, 04:47 AM

Buy a new card. You borked that one's memory.

Or just leave it at stock if the errors aren't appearing at stock.

Flav_cool · Feb 5, 2006, 03:10 PM

Damn...so this can actually happen? ONlly slightly bork it?

Flav_cool · Feb 6, 2006, 05:16 AM

You guys won't believe this...

After a fresh reinstall on a new partition, new video bios, countless driver reinstalls, countless crashes, I decided to try the OC on battery. It crashed again, but ever since...hasn't crashed and my old OC'ing capabilities are back WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT. Seems that crahsing on battery and VPU recovering somehow restored some settings which were messed.

MindlessOath · Feb 6, 2006, 01:50 PM

i suggest a cooling pad in between the heatsink and the grfx chip. that may help. arctic silver usually doesnt work well on these laptop grfx chips.

usually they get damaged if they get to hot or out of spec.

thats the chance you take by overclocking.

Feb 5, 2006, 12:54 AM	#1
Flav_cool DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 0	HELP! What did ATT timings do to my overclock?? NOOO Hi, As you may be aware I had a 450/360 overclock from 297/229.5 on a 128MB ATi X300 mobility radeon. Everything was working great, and like an idiot, I decided to get the ATi Tray Tools which comes w/ the timing settings. I messed around w/ those at stock clocks, and when I applied my overclock back, garbling! I thought, no big deal, I'll just reset timings, put back my overclock. Upon resetion of the timings (which should've happend at restart anyway), I noticed, my new overclock wouldn't even get close w/o producing errors. The GPU overclock stayed the same, but the mem gets to ~300 only! I am inclined to think some memory timings are still not as they used to be because when benchmarking w/ ATT at stock clocks, it gets ~1510 and it should get ~1487 (as it did bfr w/ stock clocks bfr I messed w/ the timings). I uninstalled ATT, uninstalled drivers, driver cleaner pro'ed, reinstalleld omega drivers + ATT (the one that comes w/ omega's doesn't have the timing option.) WTF should I do?? Last edited by Flav_cool; Feb 5, 2006 at 01:28 AM.

Feb 6, 2006, 01:50 PM	#5
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	i suggest a cooling pad in between the heatsink and the grfx chip. that may help. arctic silver usually doesnt work well on these laptop grfx chips. usually they get damaged if they get to hot or out of spec. thats the chance you take by overclocking. __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Feb 5, 2006, 04:47 AM	#2
H3X4D3C1M4L DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 6,794 Rep Power: 0	Buy a new card. You borked that one's memory. Or just leave it at stock if the errors aren't appearing at stock.

Feb 5, 2006, 03:10 PM	Thread Starter #3
Flav_cool DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 0	Damn...so this can actually happen? ONlly slightly bork it?

Feb 6, 2006, 05:16 AM	Thread Starter #4
Flav_cool DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 0	You guys won't believe this... After a fresh reinstall on a new partition, new video bios, countless driver reinstalls, countless crashes, I decided to try the OC on battery. It crashed again, but ever since...hasn't crashed and my old OC'ing capabilities are back WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT. Seems that crahsing on battery and VPU recovering somehow restored some settings which were messed.