9600 XT gone NUTS!!!

[Juice Box]

ok i bought a ati 9600 xt, and was ocing it. I bought the vga artic silent cooler and installed it, but it didnt fint on my mobo, so i had to put on old HS and fan. ANyways, after i re installed it, i can still OC a little, cause i got ram sinks, and i magane to score 5000 3d 03 marks. However, in any gaming, ad benchmark, i get mad lag every like 30 seoconds. Like, its fine, then stalls for a half second, then resumes, it dont mess with fps on 3d mark i guess, but i want to know what to do about this! I alreayd tried defragging, and that didnt help. any ideas?!?!!

 

[JeremiahTheGreat]

Did happen to format/reinstall ? I had the same problem when i couldn't remove my old nvidia drivers ..

 

[Juice Box]

what do u mean, like, i have to format my entier HD, or what? reinstall the drivers?

 

[Mem]

He means did you have a Nvidia card installed before? I would run Driver Cleaner to clean out any old drivers(does both ATI and Nvidia).Try running with fastwrites disabled as well,that might increase stability.

 

[Juice Box]

no, all ive ever had was ATI, ill try that turning off fast writes thing, and see if it works

 

[Juice Box]

yeah, i turned it off, and i get the same problem!

 

[Juice Box]

im still getting this problem, any ideas!

 

[MournSanity]

There might be a process running in the background. As you play a game, hit alt+ctrl+dlt and go to processes and seeif theres anything using a large amount of CPU %. Probably spyware or something. Get ad-aware to clean everything up.