Radeon 9700 Pro - no signal after gaming awhile

[cowdog]

I have a new Powercolor 9700 Pro (Retail) running unclocked. It runs fine until I push it hard, either gaming for about 10 minutes or while looping 3dMark2001SE, for example. The monitor will suddenly display "no signal." Mobo is an 8RDA+ with an OC'd Barton 2500+. Running DirectX9a and CAt 3.2. I uninstalled the drivers, used RegCleaner and deleted directories, dlls, etc. Then reinstalled DirectX and then resinstalled drivers. Same problem. I upped the voltage to the video card to 1.7v. I set it to 4x AGP. I turned off fast writes. I connected to a different power connector. I tried a bunch of things that I picked up on from reading around. Same problem. I assumed this was a driver/setting problem, but maybe it is a heat problem? My case temp is higher with the 9700 pro than with the older 8500LE, but I have a lot of cooling. 4 sucking case fans, including 2 blowing from the side window right onto the mobo, and 2 exhaust fans. I will see what happens when I run the cpu at default settings, but that's not where I want to run this sytem. Other than this, it is rock stable. BTW, I didn't have these problems (same cpu and OC) with the 8500LE. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[Remedy]

I had the same problems with the ALi Magik chipset for an AthlonXP recently. Over @ Rage3d forums, one of the members said to raise the voltage on the cpu. How does raising the voltage on the cpu correlate to AGP port stability is beyond me. But he said it works. Then again, that was a ALi chipset. What I did was, come to the conclusion that the board and card was incompatible for the time being and RMA'd the board and picked up a KT400 for cheap.

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: ReMeDy{WcS}
I had the same problems with the ALi Magik chipset for an AthlonXP recently. Over @ Rage3d forums, one of the members said to raise the voltage on the cpu. How does raising the voltage on the cpu correlate to AGP port stability is beyond me. But he said it works. Then again, that was a ALi chipset. What I did was, come to the conclusion that the board and card was incompatible for the time being and RMA'd the board and picked up a KT400 for cheap.

So is the KT400 ok with the 9700 Pro? Does it work with AGP 8X? One of my board's capacitors took a crap and i have to RMA it and deal with the 2-3 week turnaround. So now i'm looking at a cheap KT400 board as well.

 

[Remedy]

Works for me Boy.

 

[BFG10K]

with an OC'd Barton 2500+.

I assumed you've tried running at stock speeds?