Cameronbic
Junior Member
The problem description:
The computer ususally crashes and the monitor immediatly acts like it is getting no signal. If there is sound playing, then I can hear the sound forever looping. The PC does not respond to keyboard input (tried blindly shutting it down and cannot). Sometimes the mouse actually loses power (no light underneath). Occasionally (rarely) I will try to power up and get the IDE activity light but no power light and the monitor still shows no signal. Occasionally if I open up certain web pages, I see the screen brightness flutter and it continues on all apps including just sitting at the desktop till I reboot. About one out of every 4 times I get the 'frequency out of range', and the same other symptoms. It seems to happen about every other time I run WinAmp and having just tried to play the Guild Wars free trial, I can't run it for a full 10 minutes before it crashes.
That's as detailed as I can get.
At first, I tought it was the PSU, so I bought an Antec 550 True Power, same issue.
Thought it might be overheating, so I installed the Thermaltake Giant 3 VPU cooler, same issue.
Thought it may be Windows, format/reinstall, even tried killing the raid set. Same issue.
Thought it might be the drivers, updates, same issue. Tried (and currently have installed) the Omega drivers, same issue.
Someone said it was crappy or little RAM, now have 1GB of Mushkin 2-2-2 RAM. Same issue.
Thought it might be the processor, but I ran a prime95 stress test, no issues.
Here are the full system specs:
Soyo KT600 Ultra Platinum MOBO
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Barton core, 400mHz FSB
2x512 Mushkin Black 2-2-2 special RAM
Sapphire 9600xt 256MB
2x80GB Maxtor HDD's in RAID 0
Onboard Sound
Antec 550 True Power PSU
TDK 880n indie-DVD burner
No additional PCI cards
NEC FE991SB monitor
PLEASE give me some ideas to resolve this. I can't decide whether it's the mobo or the Vid Card.
A friend of mine (nVidia-4-life type of guy) just sent me a link to a really good deal on a PNY 6800GT and I am seriously considering it and just writing off the 9600. Any help is appreciated.
PRETTY-PLEASE, even. 😛
The computer ususally crashes and the monitor immediatly acts like it is getting no signal. If there is sound playing, then I can hear the sound forever looping. The PC does not respond to keyboard input (tried blindly shutting it down and cannot). Sometimes the mouse actually loses power (no light underneath). Occasionally (rarely) I will try to power up and get the IDE activity light but no power light and the monitor still shows no signal. Occasionally if I open up certain web pages, I see the screen brightness flutter and it continues on all apps including just sitting at the desktop till I reboot. About one out of every 4 times I get the 'frequency out of range', and the same other symptoms. It seems to happen about every other time I run WinAmp and having just tried to play the Guild Wars free trial, I can't run it for a full 10 minutes before it crashes.
That's as detailed as I can get.
At first, I tought it was the PSU, so I bought an Antec 550 True Power, same issue.
Thought it might be overheating, so I installed the Thermaltake Giant 3 VPU cooler, same issue.
Thought it may be Windows, format/reinstall, even tried killing the raid set. Same issue.
Thought it might be the drivers, updates, same issue. Tried (and currently have installed) the Omega drivers, same issue.
Someone said it was crappy or little RAM, now have 1GB of Mushkin 2-2-2 RAM. Same issue.
Thought it might be the processor, but I ran a prime95 stress test, no issues.
Here are the full system specs:
Soyo KT600 Ultra Platinum MOBO
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Barton core, 400mHz FSB
2x512 Mushkin Black 2-2-2 special RAM
Sapphire 9600xt 256MB
2x80GB Maxtor HDD's in RAID 0
Onboard Sound
Antec 550 True Power PSU
TDK 880n indie-DVD burner
No additional PCI cards
NEC FE991SB monitor
PLEASE give me some ideas to resolve this. I can't decide whether it's the mobo or the Vid Card.
A friend of mine (nVidia-4-life type of guy) just sent me a link to a really good deal on a PNY 6800GT and I am seriously considering it and just writing off the 9600. Any help is appreciated.
PRETTY-PLEASE, even. 😛
