9700 pro device error

[georgestark]

Hi guys hope someone can help

Are you sitting comfy its a long story,
got a 9700 pro new m/b latest drivers,bios,chipset ect
but still get this error

The driver ati2dvag for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.

this is the third radeon pro and second m/b

p4 2.4
gigabyte ga-8ig1000mk
radeon 9700 pro
1gig of ram
300w psu
win xp patched and service packed

im tempted to send it all back and get nvidea card

HELP

 

[boshuter]

does this happen randomly and windows goes to low resolution and/or has bad screen corruption? if so, try disabling fast writes in the ati control panel under the "smart gart" tab, also set it to 4X agp in smart gart and in bios setup... i had the same problem, this fixed mine....... it still sucks to have to run a card like this basicaly dumbed down:disgust:

 

[georgestark]

thx for the quick reply 1:45 am here and im very tired anyway nough of the chit chat

yes low res/colour and error windows has detected a h/w failure but i agree spent loads on a agp x8 m/b and 9700pro should run fast wright 8x agp ect.

but i will lower these to see if it fixes the pro

opps lowered to agpx4 fast wright off same problem

cheers

georgestark

 

[Viper96720]

You might want to try more than a 300W psu. That helped some with the infinite loop bug.

 

[georgestark]

Thx viper i will give it a try

 

[Viper96720]

infinite loop error

 

[akiraxtc]

It is definitely a power supply problem.
This is my system when i ran into those probs:
P4 2.6Ghz (not overclocked)
Asus P4C800 Deluxe
1GB DDR400 Corsair XMS (2x512)
2 Optical Drives (1 cdrw, 1 dvd)
ATI All-in-wonder radeon 9700 pro
Turtle beach Santa cruz (PCI)
Intel Gigabit card (PCI)
Promise Ultra133TX2 Controller (PCI)
2 x 80GB HDD
1 x 40GB HDD
1 x 100GB HDD
2 x 60GB HDD
1 x Cold Cathode Light
PC60 w/ 3 Case fans
All of it running with an Enermax 431W PSU!

Now once in a while i would be thrown to 16color 640x480 display saying i have a hardware failure. A closer inpection on the Windows event log says that the driver got stuck in an Infinite Loop. I search everywhere for a possible solution and some people says that i might not have enough power on the system to power the card. It doesn't surprise me too much since i saw that the card even rhas a molex connnector so that it could draw more power than just AGP slot.
So... i replaced both of my 80GB hdd with one 160gb hdd and took off the 2x60GB hdds just for testing. Voila! So far i have not experience the infinite loop anymore even when the system is under heavy load. Apparently it was not a driver issue i used to thought it was.

By the way, viper was right, 300W might not be enough to power your whole system. And be sure to get a GOOD power supply!

 

[killedradiostar]

i'm looking to power an AIW 9700pro, a 120GB seagate, a p4 2.6GHz 800FSB, an Asus P4P8000 deluxe, 1 gig of corsair XMS platinum, a DVD drive, a 3.5", and some case fans with a 350W enermax (http://www.enermax.com.tw/eg365p-ve.htm), think i'd run into any problems like this one?

 

[akiraxtc]

How many is "some"? 3? 5? 7?

 

[georgestark]

I have ordered a 550w psu dual fan blah blah blah 30 quid plus the dreaded so it should be a good one

 

[georgestark]

btw Akiraxtc got enough disk space must be running a bit low by now
lol

 

[killedradiostar]

Originally posted by: akiraxtc
How many is "some"? 3? 5? 7?

i'd be adding two additional to the three already in the chieftec case, so five total.

 

[akiraxtc]

lol georgestark there's no such thing as enough space for me. As it stand now with those drives, i got less that 10gb free space combined. I still have a bit left on my file server though, an array of 80, 120, 100, and 160 drives

And killedradiostar, 350w PSU looks like enough, but to be on the safe side, you can always get a 400+ watts PSU.