Problems With ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

[Gdepp519]

Just recently i finished building my computer it's comprised of ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 1.5GB Kingston 2700 Ram, Soyo KT400 Black Edition Motherboard, Western Digital 40GB Hard Drive, 2800 AMD XP Barton, and other various items.... and I had a problem with my Video Card i beleive i had it set on 8X with no over-clocking... and web-browsing was fine but when i decided to boot up my Favorite Game 'Everquest' (Evercrack for those more familiar) after i say an hr or so my monitor woud go completely blank and i would have to restart my computer so i updated the drives and such.. for my motherboard and the vido-card.. made sure i was running DirectX 9 and tried again.. and the same thing happened my monitor jsut went black.. so i decided to see if there was some way i could reduce the speed of the card.. and now it work fine at 4X no problems with my screen going blank and such... now i forgot to add another part im not sure if this played a part or not.. but before i tried reducing the speed to 4X i deiced to take my side panel off and face a fan at my video card.. and that seemed to help.. so is the problem that the card is heating up to quickly in 8X mode and i need to get a better heatsink for the vid card?? or is it that mabye there are so technical issues that i don't know about... and the video card jsut runs better in 4X mode.. someone plz shed some light my situation.. everything works.. im jsut curious as to why the card shuts off in 8x mode.. and if theres anything i can do about it.. cause i want as much as i can get outta my vid-card

 

[modedepe]

As far as I know, running a card in 8x shouldn't really cause any additional heat. If you are forced to run it in 8x don't worry, the performance loss is negligible. Right now do you have your case open with a fan blowing on it? When you had the card running in 8x with the fan on it did the problems stop completely?

 

[Pete]

You can settle this by putting the side panel back on and running with AGP4x. If you rule out heat this way, then I suppose either the MB or the video card or either's drivers aren't stable at that setting. You lose nothing by running the card with AGP4x rather than 8x, as the card will score the same either way.

 

[jiffylube1024]

After playing for awhile feel the heat on the RAM modules. They might be hot as hell (mine got very hot on my 9800 NP today and crashed). If so, you may need a bit more additional cooling in the case around the video card area.

 

[Mem]

Disable fastwrites in BIOS and ATi SMARTGART for maximum stability,you tried that?