Problems with ECS K7S5A and Radeon 8500 hangup during games

[JJSuperman]

I have a Radeon 8500 retail 64mb (Not overclocked) on a ECS K7S5A motherboard and ever since I started using this combination (Geforce worked fine on Motherboard) my games lock up everytime. (About 3 seconds into actual game sound will loop and screen will fill with Vertical Lines) This has been a problem for almost a year, some driver do work, but I am so sick of using 9 month old drivers bacause they are the only ones that work. Any of the newer Catalyst drivers are absolutely unuseable in games. If someone could please help me, I would REALLY appreciate it.

PS I have had this problem in Windows 98 AND XP though it was worse in 98 as I couldn't get any drivers to work.

Jared

Specs:
ECS K7S5A
Thunderbird 1.4
80GB Maxtor 7200rpm
256mb Muskin DDR
Onboard Sound
Onboard Lan
Samsung SyncMaster 955DF
Windows XP Professional

 

[Mem]

Did you install the lastest SiS AGP driver for your board? Btw best way to remove old Nvidia drivers is to reformat OS(for XP) .

Also updating your Bios might be a good idea as well.Some bios tweaks might help like disabling video ram cacheable,system bios cacheable,all video shadowing as well.Also try running at 2x AGP as well to see if that helps.

 

[SickBeast]

i agree, try agp drivers.

which games are you having issues in?

have you run smartgart to see if your agp is enabled?

is your fsb overclocked at all in your system?

 

[Peter]

Power supply too weak, I'd say. The vertical lines indicate that the Radeon's processor and RAM are freaking out, usually from low voltage.

When shopping for a new PSU, focus on the +5V/+3.3V combined max output, not the big shiny Watts sticker.

 

[Jolt2]

I have said the same thing as Peter is telling you. I said power supply in your other post at the software fourm and that would be the first thing I would go after. That motherboard is known for it's power problems.

 

[Peter]

>That motherboard is known for it's power problems.

*sigh* This is not the case. It's rather that budget mainboards in general have a tendency to be combined with budget cases and power supplies - the latter of course not being a good idea if you're running performance equipment.

If you have an adequate power supply, it'll be OK. If you don't, your system will act up right now or die a nasty death later.