Radeon 64VIVO and ASUS A7V lockups

[WhatsMyNick]

Hi yall..

I just got myself a new system,
Duron 650@650 (just to make it stable, then we'll have fun...) + Golden ORB
Asus A7V with 256MB PC133 Ram
Ati Radeon 64MB Vivo
Sound Blaster Live (in PCI 3)

I've been having a HARD time getting it to run stable.. For example, it can run the UnrealTournament Intro a couple of times, but then it freezes.. Same thing for the 3DMark 2000 demo... But the temperature never gets above 55 or 56 at the max, so this can't be the problem.. I also gave it more Voltage than I should, also to be sure that this is not the problem.. Could the I/O voltage be the problem ? I set it a 3.3 Volts. If so, what should I set it to ?

Thanx...

 

[jinsonxu]

<< Duron 650@650 (just to make it stable, then we'll have fun...) + Golden ORB >>



I doubt you'll get very far in your FUN when using the Golden Orb. They aren't sufficent to cool Durons and TBirds. Get a better HS and fan like the GlobalWin FOP38.

 

[jinsonxu]

And your temperatures are very high, i only get those temperatures when running at 1000-1070Mhz

 

[WhatsMyNick]

Thanx for the answer, but for now I only want it to actually RUN
for the fun part, we'll see later... I agree that 52 is a little high
but I shouldn't be enough to freeze the PC...

 

[MustangSVT]

Radeon could be the problem, take it out from the case and take a look at it. It has really crummy lookin heatsink+fan for GPU. i dont think they are adquate for GPU even tho it doesnt seem to produce much heat. On mine there is about 1cm gap between heatsink and GPU due to that thermal thing they applied too thick. I'm planning to change it with some of my own heatsink fan combo. Are u using PowerStrip by the way? it gave me some problems.

 

[Technonut]

Sounds like a heat problem somewhere to me. You could try reducing your RAM setting to CAS3 or run it at 100MHz to see if it is the RAM. I run my I/O at 3.40. You could also try setting your AGP Aperature Size to 128MB in the BIOS if you have not already.