I've been having problems while playing BF1942. After an hour or so, my performance has dregraded to the point where I cannot sustain 30 frames/sec at the most minimal graphics settings (eye candy off, 640x480x16). In an effort to look into the problem, I loaded my mobo (Soyo) hardware diag tool and found that my AGP voltage is way out of whack. At normal load, it stays right around 1.48 or 1.49 (AGP 2.0 is supposed to be 1.5, correct?), but anytime you have anything running, especially games, it jumps all the way up to 1.79 and plateaus there. I'm worried that I'm slowly frying my graphics card.
I'm not a novice user, but this one's over my head. I put an email into Soyo and I'll call them if they dont respond, but I'd love to understand what's going on and what the ramifications are (aside from absolutely crappy performance). And if anyone has an inkling how to fix this problem, I'd love to hear it.
Please, with all due respect, don't slam my mobo choice. I had a couple of solid MSI boards that burped when paired with my Crucial DIMMs, and I got a really excellent deal on my Soyo Dragon KT333 Ultra (black edition), so I picked one up. It isnt the performance king, but it's been solid up til now. This seems to be a recent development.
Rest of my relevant specs:
Antec SX630 3x80mm fans
Dynatron Microfin Copper bottom CPU HSF
Athlon XP 1700
Crucial 2x256 PC2100
Soyo KT333 Dragon UltraSoyo KT333 Dragon Ultra
MSI GF4 Ti4400 "Champion" edition (VO only)
Can't think of anything else that could be problematic. Thanks in advance for help.
I'm not a novice user, but this one's over my head. I put an email into Soyo and I'll call them if they dont respond, but I'd love to understand what's going on and what the ramifications are (aside from absolutely crappy performance). And if anyone has an inkling how to fix this problem, I'd love to hear it.
Please, with all due respect, don't slam my mobo choice. I had a couple of solid MSI boards that burped when paired with my Crucial DIMMs, and I got a really excellent deal on my Soyo Dragon KT333 Ultra (black edition), so I picked one up. It isnt the performance king, but it's been solid up til now. This seems to be a recent development.
Rest of my relevant specs:
Antec SX630 3x80mm fans
Dynatron Microfin Copper bottom CPU HSF
Athlon XP 1700
Crucial 2x256 PC2100
Soyo KT333 Dragon UltraSoyo KT333 Dragon Ultra
MSI GF4 Ti4400 "Champion" edition (VO only)
Can't think of anything else that could be problematic. Thanks in advance for help.
