theturmanator
Junior Member
Here's the system I just built recently:
AMD 64 3200+ 2.0 Ghz
MSI K9NU Neo-9
1Gb Corsair DDR2
Powercolor X800GT 256 mb
among other components.
My Problem: It runs stably and coolly, except when I try to run a game. It locks up hard when I run Half-Life 2 or other top-run games, just after a few moments in the main menu. Running ATItool's diagnostic made it crash immediately. Playing a movie, it crashed after 30 minutes without warning. Most troubling was running a simple cpu stress test: it kept a stable temperature, but locked up nevertheless after 20 minutes.
I've got all my video, chipset, and directx drivers up to date. At first I thought it was a driver problem, but I don't think it can be. If it hadn't crashed during the stress test, I would chalk it up to the Powercolor right away. But I don't have another system with PCI-e to test if the graphics card specifically is bum, and not some other component.
I'm crossing my fingers it's something fixable, since it took me long enough to figure out that it wasn't just a driver problem (I bought it all over a month ago). It's also my first home-built PC, and although I'm fairly certain I did it all correctly, something could have gone wrong. Any ideas? Anyone have experiences good or bad with these cards?
AMD 64 3200+ 2.0 Ghz
MSI K9NU Neo-9
1Gb Corsair DDR2
Powercolor X800GT 256 mb
among other components.
My Problem: It runs stably and coolly, except when I try to run a game. It locks up hard when I run Half-Life 2 or other top-run games, just after a few moments in the main menu. Running ATItool's diagnostic made it crash immediately. Playing a movie, it crashed after 30 minutes without warning. Most troubling was running a simple cpu stress test: it kept a stable temperature, but locked up nevertheless after 20 minutes.
I've got all my video, chipset, and directx drivers up to date. At first I thought it was a driver problem, but I don't think it can be. If it hadn't crashed during the stress test, I would chalk it up to the Powercolor right away. But I don't have another system with PCI-e to test if the graphics card specifically is bum, and not some other component.
I'm crossing my fingers it's something fixable, since it took me long enough to figure out that it wasn't just a driver problem (I bought it all over a month ago). It's also my first home-built PC, and although I'm fairly certain I did it all correctly, something could have gone wrong. Any ideas? Anyone have experiences good or bad with these cards?
