- Jul 28, 2004
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I just got an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128 meg) video card. I had problems installing it and have had to re-install winxp home edition. The system works and is stable until I try to play a game (I have tried counter strike and grand theft auto 3, but no 2d games).
However, last night, when I got on, everything worked fine. CS seemed really choppy, but it didn't crash. Wondering what changed, I checked the system properties and my chip was running at a little over 1 GHz instead of the 2+ that an AMD AthlonXP 2600 should (or atleast what it has always been reported as running at prior to my troubles).
So what I suspect is that the video card is not the problem, but is actually the processor that is overheating and only does so when it is taxed (at first I thought I had a bad install of direct x 9, so I reformatted again and started fresh).
My system is:
AMD AthlonXP 2600
512 MB of PC2??? (Don't remember the ram exactly)
Asus A7N8X-X
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
I use the onboard sound because I suspected that either there was an IRQ conflict or the SB Live value was causing problems...
I followed dclive's suggestions in this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=1359897&highlight_key=y&keyword1=blue%20screens%20of%20death and have the .cab and the dump file from earlier today (I confirmed that it wouldn't be stable at the correct 2600 settings).
If anybody wants to look at those files and give me suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it. Oh, and I will be switching to water cooling as soon as my new pump and radiator get here.
Thanks in advance.
However, last night, when I got on, everything worked fine. CS seemed really choppy, but it didn't crash. Wondering what changed, I checked the system properties and my chip was running at a little over 1 GHz instead of the 2+ that an AMD AthlonXP 2600 should (or atleast what it has always been reported as running at prior to my troubles).
So what I suspect is that the video card is not the problem, but is actually the processor that is overheating and only does so when it is taxed (at first I thought I had a bad install of direct x 9, so I reformatted again and started fresh).
My system is:
AMD AthlonXP 2600
512 MB of PC2??? (Don't remember the ram exactly)
Asus A7N8X-X
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
I use the onboard sound because I suspected that either there was an IRQ conflict or the SB Live value was causing problems...
I followed dclive's suggestions in this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=1359897&highlight_key=y&keyword1=blue%20screens%20of%20death and have the .cab and the dump file from earlier today (I confirmed that it wouldn't be stable at the correct 2600 settings).
If anybody wants to look at those files and give me suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it. Oh, and I will be switching to water cooling as soon as my new pump and radiator get here.
Thanks in advance.