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I must hate feet, because I keep shooting mine...
So the flashing goes as easy as the instructions make it sound, but when I booted back into Windows and attempt to install new drivers for my "ATI 9600 Pro", after restart my resolution would not go any higher than 640x480 @ 4bit color.
Obviously, this was not good enough for me, so I proceeded to try three other video card drivers (ATI's default set and two soft-modded driver packages, one of which I [used] to use); as luck would have it, NONE of them showed an improvement in screen resolution after restart. Unfortunately, nothing changed when I flashed my video card's ROM back to normal.
So now, two hours later, I have an ATI card that works fine (just barely, but at a default resolution of 1024x768) when no drivers are installed, and works like crap with drivers installed. Thankfully, a former teacher of mine gave me his old BFG nVidia Geforce FX 5500 video card earlier last year, so I'm going to go ahead and install video drivers for that; I don't anticipate anything going wrong, but only time will tell.
God, I feel dumb =(
By John-Minns @ Mon Jul 31, 2006 01:32 PM
I remember my last rig I had, it was an old AMD Duron 3000 (1.8Ghz) Socket A and 512MB of RAM. I was fairly new to Overclocking at that time, and I wasn't aware of the limitations and attempted to try and juice it up a bit, I increased the voltage, and then proceeded to overclock it. I eventualy reached what was the equivilent of 5Ghz :D of course shortly after re-boot, my CPU fried instantly and I was left without a rig. God bless Intel and thier cheap as chips Celeron family!
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By EER @ Fri Jul 28, 2006 02:42 AM
And on the same track, I never try to overclock my processor or memory, compress my harddisk to get more space, or use an USB -> PS/2 convertor. (I sold the last one to a customer once and got it back the next day. Fried.)