Radeon 8500 w/ ABit BH6 v1.01 is unstable

[Rijn]

I have a ABit BH6 v1.01 running the latest bios "SS". Currently I'm running a Celeron 300A overclocked to 450mzh and 384 megs of RAM under Windows XP Professional. Recently I purchased a ATI Radeon 8500 believing it would function at AGP 2X, but everytime I startup Half-Life, UnReal, and Quake 3 the system locks up then reboots after 3 to 5 minutes of game play. HL locks up the quickest then Unreal and Quake 3 runs the longest. I have the AGP set to 2/3 in the bios and I don't appear to have any resource conflicts. I've tested the ATI Radeon 8500 in an AMD system supporting AGP 4X and it ran without a hitch for 45 minutes. That makes me believe it's something on the BH6 causing the issues.

 

[Brian48]

How many volts is your AGP getting? Is it the full 3.3v or is it below specs?

 

[EMAN]

Were you using same operating system between the same system?

Did you try updating to the latest drivers for XP?

 

[rbV5]

<< Half-Life, UnReal, and Quake 3 the system locks up then reboots after 3 to 5 minutes of game play >>



What driver are you using? The native XP driver doesn't support OpengL.

 

[Rijn]

I believe the AGP slot should be putting out 3.3v (440BX). I don't know how to test it. I'm currently using the Alternate Driver - 6.13.10.3286
<I>7.63.01-011107X-1727E </I><I>Posted November 14, 2001.</I>

 

[Brian48]

The BH6 is suppose to output 3.3v, but that doesn't necessarily mean your board does it. I had one that would only do 3.23v no matter what PSU I used. You can look at your 3.3v readings in the BIOS or do it in windows with a system monitoring tool like Motherboard Monitor v5.x or Sisoft Sandra.

 

[Rijn]

I think the voltage is the problem. I looked in the bios and it's producing 3.28v. Anyway to fix it?

 

[Rijn]

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