Radeon LE keeps freezing!

[zutallors]

Hi

I recently purchased the Radeon LE on http://www.newegg.com. I Installed the drivers that came with the the video card. My problem is when I play counter strike, run the Ark demo, or the 3d mark 2000 my computer complety freezes. I can get into counter strike and play max for about 5 mins before it freezes the screen or the screen turns black. On the Ark demo it also freezes about a minute or so into it. I have tried installing about 5 diffrent sets of drivers(beta ones and the offical ones on the ati website)and everytime before I install them I clean out my registery. They all have yielded the same results. I have an AOpen motherboard AX6BC with the intel 440 BX chipset and installed the latest BIOS and installed dirextX 8. I have also installed the Radeon tweak software and tried numerous configurations.


PIII 533
256 RAM

Thanks in advance!

 

[Taz4158]

Using the tweaker can get you into all kinds of problems. These are the only keys you should hae:
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ATI Technologies\Driver\0000\atidxhal]
"EnableWaitUntilIdxTriList2"="1"
"TableFogEnable"="1"
"WFogEnable"="0"
"ZFogEnable"="1"
"DisableHierarchicalZ"="0"
"DisableHyperZ"="0"
"FastZClearEnabled"="1"
"Vsync"="0"
"AntiAlias"="0"
"ZFormats"="15"
"ExportCompressedTex"="1"
"DitherAlpha"="1"
"ExportWBuffer"="0"
Also are you overclocked?

 

[zutallors]

No i have not overclocked my radeon. I'll give those keys a try.

Thanks

 

[zutallors]

I tried the new strings they still freeze

 

[LED]

Uninstall DirectX8 and add DirectX7...bingo

 

[Taz4158]

Ignoring the DX7 advice of course. What card were you using previously and did you eliminate all references to it from your computer and registry?

 

[oldfart]

Do you have Anistropic filtering enabled in your OpenGL settings? If so, try disableing it. You are running CS in OpenGL not D3D, right? I also notice a 133 FSB BX setup. This is 89 AGP. Try running 100 FSB/66 AGP and see if that fixes it.

 

[PeAK]

Most of the problems can be chased down by running graphics card diagnostics, system diagnostics (download SANDRA) and one of probably AGP setup or sound card setup. You have a BX chipset, so I expect a minimum of AGP driver issues.

1) Card diagnostics: right click "my computer"->Device Manager->Display Adapters->...double click and look for diagnostics.

2) sound cards


Also try the search engine at Rage3D look in "Radeon Technical support". Here are threads with similar problems and resolutions

 

[zutallors]

I lowerd my fsb to 100mhz and my muliplyer to 5. The video card seems to be working now. Is there anyway that I can run my video card and my cpu at 533mhz? Thanks.

 

[oldfart]

Dumb question, but your AGP ratio is set to 2/3 not 1/1 right? I'm not familiar with your mobo. Is it a bios or jumper setting? You should double check it to be sure. You say you have a 500 @ 5 x 100 now. Cool. A 533 would be 5 x 106. Are you saying that 106 FSB causes it not to work? That would only be a 71 MHz AGP bus. I'm sure the card would be fine there. It sounds like your AGP ratio is 1/1 and the card will live with a 100 MHz AGP gus, but won't do a 106.

 

[zutallors]

There is a jumper on my mobo to set it 2/3,1/1, or auto, right now it is on 2/3. When my fsb is at 133x4=533. That is when my video card freezes. But whenever I try to put my fsb to 100 multiplied by 5 to get a speed of 500mhz it says that it is only running at 400mhz.

 

[oldfart]

You have an unlocked PIII??? I never heard of such a thing. What model PIII is it NORMALLY?

 

[zutallors]

What is an unlocked P3? How do i check what model it is?

 

[Taz4158]

<< There is a jumper on my mobo to set it 2/3,1/1, or auto, right now it is on 2/3. When my fsb is at 133x4=533. That is when my video card freezes. But whenever I try to put my fsb to 100 multiplied by 5 to get a speed of 500mhz it says that it is only running at 400mhz. >>


He was making the point that the reason you get 400 is because your MULTIPLIER is locked at 4X and CAN'T be changed.

 

[oldfart]

PIIIs have a multiplier that is set &quot;locked&quot;. If it was sold as a PIII 500, the muliplier is locked at 5X. You can not change it. You can not run 4 x 133. You may be able to set it in the bios, but it wont take effect. If you set the bus for 133, it will try to run 5 x 133 = 665. I doubt that chip will run at that speed. If you set the bios up for &quot;auto&quot; what speed is it?

 

[zutallors]

there is no auto settings

 

[oldfart]

Download WCPUID and find out what you have.

 

[oldfart]

Or this one from Intel.

 

[zutallors]

Okay

Processor: Intel Pentium III
Platform: Slot 1 (SC42 Connector)
Vending String: GenuineIntel
CPU Type: Original OEM Processor
Family: 6
Model: 7
SteppingID: 3

Internal Clock: 400.90 MHz
System Clock: 100.23
System Bus: 100.23
Multiplier: 4.0 MHz

L1 I-Chache: 16K
L1 D-Chache: 16k

L2 Chache: 512K


Thanks for all the help

 

[oldfart]

I'm still confused. I didn't think there was such a thing as a PIII 400. A PII 400 yes, but not a PIII. Did you try the Intel tester?

 

[CHHASmatroxuser]

Sounds like a P3 533B processor, the old Katmai running at 4x 133 MHz.
Which kinda sucks if your Radeon won't run at 89 MHz AGP (133*2/3), as the chip is locked at x4 multiplier.
Try to lower AGP to x1 if you can, it might help a bit.