This is not a question, just a heads up. The Omega drivers may just have been a coincidence. Comments and related war stories are welcome. I'm assuming the card is beyond reviving, but if anyone knows differently...
I installed the Omega drivers (omegadrivers.net) in a desperate attempt to get some more performance out of my ATI 9700 Pro for Oblivion (I know it's aging, but hey I use it mostly for Word, TV and World of Warcraft which it handles fine).
It seemed to work well enough (but no dramatic improvement) but now maybe 4 weeks later my card seems to have died. I was playing Dawn of War when these artifacts starting appearing. It looked like erros with clipping at first, just those random lines you get with poorly done 3D graphics at certain angles. I actually thought it was a graphics problem in the game.
After about an hour a lot of grey lines, like rain, erupted across my screen. Shocked I closed the game only to find my desktop in the same state.
I shut down my machine. Opened up and checked everything looked in order and started it making sure the GPU fan (standard) was running. The machine started fine but there is now no longer any signal from the graphic card. I know its the card since I have several monitors and even tested with another graphic card and tested the graphic card in another machine.
So, were the Omega drivers to blame? I didn't overclock the card or anything, but maybe they do by default. I admit only skimming through the readme for the drivers. I should mention that my card is around 3 years old now.
I installed the Omega drivers (omegadrivers.net) in a desperate attempt to get some more performance out of my ATI 9700 Pro for Oblivion (I know it's aging, but hey I use it mostly for Word, TV and World of Warcraft which it handles fine).
It seemed to work well enough (but no dramatic improvement) but now maybe 4 weeks later my card seems to have died. I was playing Dawn of War when these artifacts starting appearing. It looked like erros with clipping at first, just those random lines you get with poorly done 3D graphics at certain angles. I actually thought it was a graphics problem in the game.
After about an hour a lot of grey lines, like rain, erupted across my screen. Shocked I closed the game only to find my desktop in the same state.
I shut down my machine. Opened up and checked everything looked in order and started it making sure the GPU fan (standard) was running. The machine started fine but there is now no longer any signal from the graphic card. I know its the card since I have several monitors and even tested with another graphic card and tested the graphic card in another machine.
So, were the Omega drivers to blame? I didn't overclock the card or anything, but maybe they do by default. I admit only skimming through the readme for the drivers. I should mention that my card is around 3 years old now.
