Sapphire 9500pro and Abit BL7-RAID--- Games lock

[Tyson82]

Im running my Sapphire 9500pro on an ABit BL7-RAID. Celeron 2.2 and Windows 98se.

I just got it in this machine after frying my Palamino. Did a full format\reinstall. Im running the lates Intel chipset drivers, and the almost lates ATI drivers (dloading the latest tonigh) and the latest Intel aapplication accelerator.

System will run 3DMark 2001 all the way through. It will run all of DX's diagnistic without problems, as well as the diagnostics embedded in the ATI drivers. But in games the whole system locks after 4 or 5 minutes of play. But never at the same place. This happens in Morrowind and the Will Rock demo. ( all I have installed).

Any ideas are appreciated.

 

[Tyson82]

bump

 

[bandana163]

Aren't the Vcard or the CPU overheating ?

 

[Tyson82]

No. Nothing seems to be overheating.

Proc runs about 122 F according to BIOS and the vid card is for the most part cool to the touch

 

[McMadman]

I haven't had any games lock up, but my most notable lockup was/is quicktime, my sapphire 9500 is soon to be rma'd due to faulty memory.

 

[Alex]

are those games d3d or ogl?
3dmark is pure dx9 eh so it might be an ogl problem

anyways the 3.5 cats have a plethora of specific game lockup issues addressed so id be surprised if you still have the same problems after installing the latest drivers.

my sapph 9500 pro has been solid so far (knock on wood)

 

[Tyson82]

Hey thx for the replies. I was out of town for a time. And unfortunately the latest ATI drivers didnt help. Im locking up in 3dMark now as well.