HD3870 crushing

[gargaras]

wanna ask something with this specs i try to play some different MMORPG games!

O.S winds xp.SP2
inter 2 quad at 2.41
p5k pro motherboard
2 gig ram
ati HD3870 512 ram G.Card
1 HDD 200gig

first is cabal which when i open and log in the game immediatelly crush to desktop with error message!

second is counterstrike-sourse which dont open at all..it opens and instantly crush to desktop with no error message!

lasttly age of conan wich is a very heavy game!in the start i could easily play with no problem but when i started to go in big citys wich i thing it means big graphics it crushed with error msg too!

all in all i cant play any game without crashing!

any1 can tell me if he knows whats the problem?a friend told me that i got a problem with power supply and when graphic card needs alot power for graphics my PSU cant give more power so it shut down for protection!my ps is energy max 485w!

ayn1 can tell me if thats the problem or can thing something else?

 

[Lorne]

You have a friend that can test the card on there unit?

It could very well be the PSU, When gfx intensive moments come up the whole system puts a load on the PSU at once.
See if you can barrow a PSU or pull all extra add on hardware such as CDrom and USB devices and see if it helps any.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

First of all, do you have the 6 pin connector hooked up to the Video Card????? Have you ran any component stability tests like Prime95, Memtest86, OCCT ??? Those will test your CPU and Memory. Test those to make sure your CPU & Memory are stable. Run Prime95 for atleast 4-6hrs and then Memtest86 run atleast 2 complete passes.

 

[gargaras]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
First of all, do you have the 6 pin connector hooked up to the Video Card????? Have you ran any component stability tests like Prime95, Memtest86, OCCT ??? Those will test your CPU and Memory. Test those to make sure your CPU & Memory are stable. Run Prime95 for atleast 4-6hrs and then Memtest86 run atleast 2 complete passes.

my card got 2 3 pin connectors to be connected with psu!

and i dont know what all those this you say soz iam not a pc expert!

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Ok, we need to know two things:

1) Is everything stable. There is a test called memtest86+. Google it. Download it and burn it to a CD. Restart your computer with the CD in and run the test for a day straight. You should not have ONE error.
Next, google prime95. Download and install it. Run it for 8 hours straight. The computer should still be alive at the end. Then google and download ATitool. Start it, it has a button called artifact test. Run that for a couple hours.
2) Does the card work? Have you tested it in another computer? Also, are you sure you have everything plugged in and your PSU is strong enough? Tell us the PSU model.

 

[stepone]

What exactly is your 3870 "crushing".

1. Is the 6 pin pci-e power connector actually hooked up at both ends (psu & card)?
2. Have you installed the latest ATI 8.5 drivers?
3. Did this card work fine in the past or has it always had problems?
4. Have u tried a clean format & reinstall of xp?

 

[gargaras]

Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
Ok, we need to know two things:

1) Is everything stable. There is a test called memtest86+. Google it. Download it and burn it to a CD. Restart your computer with the CD in and run the test for a day straight. You should not have ONE error.
Next, google prime95. Download and install it. Run it for 8 hours straight. The computer should still be alive at the end. Then google and download ATitool. Start it, it has a button called artifact test. Run that for a couple hours.
2) Does the card work? Have you tested it in another computer? Also, are you sure you have everything plugged in and your PSU is strong enough? Tell us the PSU model.

i will try all those you said but atm puted my prev g.card in to see how the pc would go and it works fine with my ati eax1600xt 256 dd3 ram~

i will try those and tell the results...i try in the weekend cause i cant right now!

Originally posted by: stepone
What exactly is your 3870 "crushing".

1. Is the 6 pin pci-e power connector actually hooked up at both ends (psu & card)?
2. Have you installed the latest ATI 8.5 drivers?
3. Did this card work fine in the past or has it always had problems?
4. Have u tried a clean format & reinstall of xp?

sometimes it crush to desktop and sometimes it restart!

1)yep it is..i am 100% about that!
2)yep i got the latest
3)dont know cause its all new card i dont even have it for a week
4)all the prev came from a clean format and installing drivers correctly!

and some1 asked in a prev post my psu is enermax 485w and it works for 2 years now!

lastly i wanna thanks you all for the concern the aswers and the help