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Sapphire 3850 problems

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Stallion

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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?
 
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...
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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