Sapphire 3850 problems

[Stallion]

A while ago to try and keep my old AGP box going I bought a Sapphire 3650 card and everything ran great. Only one draw back, when I started a game of UT3 it would hang durring the opening sequence of the single player game. But it would work fine in the CTF, donimation and other modes.

So I just figured the card wasn't up to it to run it.

Then I saw the 3850 card for a decent price and just bought it last week. I loaded it last night. Put in the CD and loaded drivers/apps and then it started. It would stay running. It would continually start up, crash and reboot. I left the room once and came back and my bios screen was up. And the FSB speed was hi-lighted. Like maybe it was to high....

Do these cards not like to be O/Ced

I have an ASUS P4PE, Northwood 2.8 (133fsb) that I run at 145FSB and have for many years wit hboth my old 6600GT card and the 3650 card but now the 3850 card wont run.

Is it just a matter of turning it back down?

Any other ideas?

 

[DaveSimmons]

> Is it just a matter of turning it back down?

Try it?

 

[Stallion]

I guess it's my only choice. I was just currious as to if anyone else has seen this. I have O/Ced chip and cards for years and never had any problems. And it's not a huge jump from 133-145. Seemed odd to me it would be stable...

 

[Stallion]

Well I turned it back down to 133 and it still wouldn't boot past the XP splash screen.

So I put the "old" 3650 back in and guess what. Now it does the exact same thing. It will make it past the POST screen, but I don't hear the beep, but whe nthe XP screen apears it dumps back out and starts the cycle again....

Argggg

 

[evolucion8]

Try to run Memtest x86 to see if you have any issues with your RAM, I never experienced issues with my HD 3850 AGP card, I know this is unrequested, but I recommend you to do an upgrade instead of spending money on it.

My previous box was a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.40GHz with 2MB of L3 cache aka Xeon Gallatin and it was a bottleneck for my Radeon X1950XT, when I upgraded to the HIS HD 3850 IceQ3, I barely felt the difference in performance between both cards, I bought an Asus CT-479 adapter to use a Pentium M on my Asus P4P800-E Deluxe, and when I overclocked the Pentium M 750 at 2.70GHz, it smoked my Pentium 4 in games and power consumption, it even outperformed the Athlon X2 4800+ in non multi threading games by a considerable margin. Even the Pentium M at stock 1.86GHz was faster than my Pentium 4 EE which is the best Pentium 4 ever to grace the socket 478.

 

[Stallion]

I can't even get the thing to run. The ram is about 3 months old but I guess I could throw in the old stuff and try that.

I was thinking of upgrading as well as this thing is well past it's prime. :laugh:

But my race/street car crapped the bed and I need to dump money into that instead so a cheap upgrade was the next best bet.

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: Stallion
I can't even get the thing to run. The ram is about 3 months old but I guess I could throw in the old stuff and try that.

I was thinking of upgrading as well as this thing is well past it's prime. :laugh:

But my race/street car crapped the bed and I need to dump money into that instead so a cheap upgrade was the next best bet.

Try to reset your ram sticks, erase your CMOS and run memtest, my girlfriend has a Pentium 4 3.40GHz Northwood and it still working fine at medium settings with a X1950GT overclocked to PRO with games like Batman AA, Resident Evil 5 or mid/high settings like Mirrors Edge and Timeshift, at a resolution of 1280x960, I found out that she still CPU bound in those games.