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ATI 9700 Pro Woe

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billytronix

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I upgraded my pc with a new Giga-Byte 7VAXP mobo, an AMD 2400 XP chip and the new retail 9700 Pro. I have all the latest drivers for the mobo (& BIOS) and video card installed. If I try to run 3dmark2001 SE it will run for a few seconds and then it locks up and I have to reboot - Same thing with warcraft. All my other programs and hardware works ok - I just can't game. I thought I saw something about a compatibility problem with the new 8x agp mobo's. Heres the rest of the story - MS XP home edition (OS), 60g Maxtor HDD ATA 133, Black Fong Kai FK320 Super mid tower, 512 Mb PC2700 DDR, RAID & onboard sound disabled, onboard LAN & IEEE enabled, CD Burner and DVD. My power supply is good (Enermax EG365P) and I have no problems using a Geforce 4 TI 4600 in my other system. Anybody got any ideas ? Dare I try to upgrade to the new DX9 Beta off the ATI home page? :disgust:
 
Go to the rage3d forums and search your motherboard model. There's a lot of fixes you can try. What IRQ is your sound card using? Change pci slots if it's the same as the 9700.
 
Since you have not listed some of the troubleshooting steps you have taken so far, here's where I would start:

[*]Plug the 4 pin power connector into the 9700 Pro
[*]set agp to 4x in the bios
[*]try the catalyst 2.4's
[*]try different 4-in-1's
[*]raise the cpu core voltage .5 if @ default
[*]try setting memory to cas 2.5-3-3-7
[*]install XP SP1
 
probably just an incorrect driver installation procedure (WILL cause problems)

or could be an AGP 8X issue I s'pose.
 
Well - I updated my 4 in 1's to v4.41 and I checked my IRQ's and found the video card was sharing an IRQ with the onboard IEEE. I disabled the IEEE in the BIOS so the card was on it's own IRQ. Still no luck same lockups. I have found some other tips to try and am still working on this. I Can't change the 8x setting to 4x in the bios - anybody know how I can activate the setting so I can change it (its shaded and wont allow changing). :disgust:
 
SUCCESS Well - I jacked around and jacked around and jacked around. Finally, I bumped the AGP Overvoltage up two clicks in the BIOS (from 1.5v to 1.7v) and Mad Onion runs like a dream. I have been running it for a couple of hours now with no crashes so it seems that the new 9700 pro's issues I had were all around the AGP voltage. Thanks to all of you that offered up ideas. 🙂
 
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