AtiTool stops x1950xt fan

[RJM]

I have been having a problem lately with the AtiTool .26. Before gaming I start up the AtiTool which I have set to set my fan speeds from 50% at 50C to 100% at 60C and with the X1950XT you can hear the fans when you start the AtiTool.

Twice last week the fans did not start up, so I went into the fan control section of the tool and the fan speed was 0% and grayed out but all my settings for fan speed and temperature were still there.

The first time I had to reboot my computer once for the fans to work with the AtiTool. The next time I had to reboot it twice.

I thought it was the drivers that I was using because I had just installed the DNA drivers based on the ATI 7.5's. last weekend and was going to install the ATI 7.7's this weekend.

Then I saw this over at Tom’s Hardware.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/243902-3...g-crash-atitool

Have any of you seen this problem?

[puntoMX]

I saw your post asking about a good cooler to replace your stock one. I know your card died now. Has this any thing to do with your problem?

[RJM]

Yes, it answered my question, it was a hardware problem.

It's been a bad weekend for me and computers.

On my backup computer, a PIII-600, it looks like the hard drive is failing, the 2.5 year old WD800JB 80G hard drive locks up 3 out of 4 times while booting into Windows and WD's Datalifeguard does not recognize it as a Western Digital drive. It's a good thing it's a dual boot system the other two 10G Maxtors still work fine and I can boot from them.

My next spare is a PII-400 and I don't want to go there!

Edited August 7, 2007 by RJM