TIP for owners of an ATI videocard,

[keylay31]

Hello all,
I was recently having some video card overheating issues with my ATI x850XT while playing high demanding games. The computer would beep at me, and the FPS would 'die' after a few minutes playing CounterStrike Source. I am here to report that I have found the answer and I'd bet that this solves a lot of others problems.

The fan speed for my ATI card was set to 5%. Out of the box, no tweaking. 5%...

If the fan is running at 5%, then how could you cool your card?! The solution is to download ATI Tray Tools Thanks to liondad for that one. Once in Tray Tools, go to hardware, overclocking, then click the fan tab and away you go!

I would bet that this one post solves quite a few problems. Moderators, I ask that you somehow get this information out there, in the Gaming Forum as well as the Hardware Forum. Thanks.

The link to my original problem

[Josh1285]

thanks keylay been wanting to get this and increase my fan speed on my new x1800xt. thanks again will be using it tonight.

[Metr01973]

keylay31 thanks for posting back with your solution. Hopefully it will help someone else in the future.

[smurfy]

And stickied as suggested - just modified slighlty to make it ATI card specific.

[Pi rules]

My X1300 Pro was running very, very hot (70s+ Celsius idle) and I downloaded the ATI Tray tool and noticed that my fan was set to run at 50% up to 80 C, which didn't make much sense to me. That cooled it down, but updating drivers caused a drop of about 20 C! Make sure you also update your drivers, it can help.

Thanks for posting the tip.

[Chilly]

so would this tool work for the 9550 ati card?

[Pi rules]

I believe so. It doesn't seem to be compatible with Windows 95, 98, or ME, though. 64-bit OSes are supported.

[no0b_wun]

x700 is it compatible with this card? .. it has a cool color fan on it..

[eeyore1138]

would this work for a radeon 9250?

[hunterfox95842]

you may be having a hardware conflict between your nvidia motherboard mcp
chipset and the ati x850xt this is caused by the two opposite companys if this is the problem you should try to use another card other then ATI

[paranoidandroid]

is there anythigng like this that works with nvidia cards?

[liondad]

link.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_2.05.09.html
read the page first ,this is for mobos.
link,
this program works with ati and nvidia,
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner
read the page,

[cougar62]

I downloaded the app, but it says theres no fan on my 1300xt video card. so im not sure if thats good or bad but i do know that theres a fan that is running on the card.

[liondad]

QUOTE,
I downloaded the app, but it says theres no fan on my 1300xt video card. so im not sure if thats good or bad but i do know that theres a fan that is running on the card.

THIS PROGRAM HAS NO DEFAULTS you have to set them
Try opening some of the dialog boxs,
you have to learn how to use this program,
Read the help files

[Spider]

Vista Ultimate
ATI Radeon X1300 512MB

Results from attempting to start tool...

...not working here.

I would bet it's trying to read my Hauppauge TV card as the video card, all the zeros on the address errors
seems to point to this.