Dead Parhelia

[lecter]

When I booted up my computer today, I was greeted by a plain grey screen...The Parhelia is still recognized by Windows (when I boot up with a PCI card) but by itself it doesn't show anything other than that grey screen...sometimes when i boot up the color varies a little, or there are some vertical lines, but that's it. Could it be a hardware problem or a BIOS problem? I'm out of ideas at the moment, I'll try a BIOS restore and see if it works, but I personally doubt it...suggestions, advice?

[Scratchi]

If you want, control the power on your Card. Look at here:

http://www.combu.ch/Parhelia/parhelia/parhelia-card-back_mod.gif

You see four tuerkis points on the picture. The first have 1.86V, the second 2.82V, 3 = 1.27, 4 = 2.73

Normaly the IC's on the Power Circuit 4 blow up.

cu Itchi

[3dfx]

Now that you mention that, I actually had a problem with my Parhelia where I booted up one morning and I got loads of screen corruption and then after a reboot everything was fine and has been ever since

Sorry I couldn't help more with your problem lecter and I hope you get it fixed m8

[lecter]

Thanx for the advice Scratchi, but at the moment I don't have a Voltmeter....how long does the RMA process usually take on something like this?

[Gohan]

Originally posted by 3dfx
Now that you mention that, I actually had a problem with my Parhelia where I booted up one morning and I got loads of screen corruption and then after a reboot everything was fine and has been ever since

I have this Problem too. My P can run 4 hours Morrowind, but sometimes, suddenly in 2d, my whole sccren get corrupted. I must easly reboot and evrything is fine again.

[lecter]

Well I had two choices at the computer firm today: either go through a long RMA process or take a brand new but bulk Parhelia on the spot. I took the bulk one, so now I'll just flash it at 220/550 and go happily fraggin along later I'll want to try to keep it like my old one@230/600....hope it will work.

[borat]

well with a bulk with retail bios hack and no extra mods mine runs stable at 228/595 but putting ram to 600 gets me screen corruption in ut2003 within about 45 minutes. so you should get pretty close to it.