vid card crashing.. not sure whats wrong...

[goe602]

so i built a newish computer. the only old parts i have are my 9700pro and my audigy zs 2 plat. The vid card is giving me problems.

it was overheating and crashing my games giving me the vpu recovery error thing. so i took it in and the guy said he ran it fine with a huge house fan on it. so i cleaned up all the wires very well, and added a new fan. it doesnt crash as often, but it still does when there's lots of action on the screen... i have 3 tower fans, and the one side of the tower off, but it still crashes sometimes.

is it possible the card is not cooling itself right and i need a new one, or could there be otehr problems?

my setup
athlon 64 3000+
asus k8n-3 deluxe
3gb kingston pc2700 (i got this ram free, so please no "why only pc2700?")
ati radeon 9700pro
audigy zs 2 platinum
maxtor 80gb
wd 120gb
antec 430w psu

 

[Brian23]

Try running it with only 2 sticks of memory. Also, make sure your mobo has the latest bios.

 

[goe602]

ill try running with on ly 2gbs or ram and see how it goes. why would that make a difference?

 

[goe602]

bump

 

[live2game]

Yes it might

 

[goe602]

well that didnt work. it just crashed again... any other ideas? i could really use the help because after all the money i spent on this computer i'd like it to not crash all the time =[

thanks for the help thus far

 

[goe602]

bah just did it again. 'vpu recovery...blah blah, reset your graphics driver.. blah blah'

how do i fix this?? its so annoying!

 

[goe602]

bump. thanks

 

[goe602]

bump =\