What is the Default AGP Voltage for a Power Color Radeon 9700 NON-pro?

[thatsright]

I ask as I'm trying to OC my P4c 2.4G and Kingston Hyper X PC3500 512 X2. I have the PowerColor 9700 Non-Pro Evil Commander Gold Edition, yet I'm not sure if in my IC7 BIOS, the AGP Voltage is right. Now its set to 1.55V. I am running the ATI's Catalyst drivers ver. 3.4 that I downloaded from ATI; for their 'Built By ATI' Radeon 9700 Pro card.

Yet my CPU Overclocking is just not working while I run Prime95 & 3dMark2001SE Demo with sound on, together. The demo will either crash on me, or the PC will just do a reboot without any BSOD or error messages?

SO, is 1.55V the right voltage for the Card? I'm just suspecting that the card might be the problem. BTW, When I try to O'C the CPU, I have AGP/PCI ratio Fixed, and the Video Card is running at stock speeds, no tweaks or anything.

Thanks

 

[thatsright]

Can anyone help me here, I'm desperate. The AGP Voltages in the MB BIOS are 1.50, 1.55, 1.60, 1.65. But this is a AGP 8X Card. yet their is NO 0.8V option for the AGP Setting in the IC7 1.13Bios.

Can anyone think of a fix for this?

Thanks

 

[cubanx]

How did you come to the conclusion the Video card is the problem? I ask becuase usually random reboot's is a power supply issue or possible are you running the card on a overclocked AGP Bus?

I have the same card on a older MSI KT7 board with no voltage adjustments available in the BIOS and have the Power Color 9700NP card overclocked to 337/297 with no reboot problem running those Benchmarks.

My Spec's:
XP1600 O/C to XP2000
1GIG PC133 RAM
Power Color 9700NP O/C'ed
SB Audigy
4 HD's (2 in Raid 0)
1 DVD Rom and 1 CDRW
Antec True Power 330

If the Problem only occur's when overclocking your MOBO might be putting the PCI and AGP Bus out-of-spec and ATI cards generally do not like a overclocked AGP Bus. You didn't say how you are "overclocking".

*BTW*
Overclocking is a big YMMV as it is anyway

 

[thatsright]

Originally posted by: cubanx
How did you come to the conclusion the Video card is the problem? I ask becuase usually random reboot's is a power supply issue or possible are you running the card on a overclocked AGP Bus?

I have the same card on a older MSI KT7 board with no voltage adjustments available in the BIOS and have the Power Color 9700NP card overclocked to 337/297 with no reboot problem running those Benchmarks.

My Spec's:
XP1600 O/C to XP2000
1GIG PC133 RAM
Power Color 9700NP O/C'ed
SB Audigy
4 HD's (2 in Raid 0)
1 DVD Rom and 1 CDRW
Antec True Power 330



If the Problem only occur's when overclocking your MOBO might be putting the PCI and AGP Bus out-of-spec and ATI cards generally do not like a overclocked AGP Bus. You didn't say how you are "overclocking".

*BTW*
Overclocking is a big YMMV as it is anyway

Thanks Cubanx:

Well right now the FSB is @274= CPU of 3.293Ghz. The FSB Divider is at 5:4. The Vcore is @ 1.525, which is the default anyway, so nothing over spec there. AGP is FIXED @ 66/33Mhz. The Video Card is in NO WAY overclocked here, I'm just going for pure CPU Overclocking. I have a Antec True Power 430 Watt. Sometimes in the beginning of my O'C attempts, I would try a FSB of like 285 and it would get into XP and then just reboot the PC on its own; very odd as I got NO error messages, BSOD's or anything. Could a 430W True Power supply be not enough Watts?

Also, I'm running the ABIT IC7 Bios 1.13 and unfortunately, I've had to run in Single Channel DDR Mode while I wait for a replacement DDR Stick from Kingston. So all the while running these tests were on a single HyperX PC3500 512MB Module.

How does this alter the 'mix.' Thanks

 

[cubanx]

Everything sounds good.

I had to increase my VCore slightly for my AMD chip to be rock solid overclocked but I have not owned an Intel chip for years so I'm not sure there.

I have read people having to relax their memory timings or increase the memory voltage slightly to increase stability on higher bus overclocks. That's the only thing coming to mind right now.

 

[thatsright]

Thanks again.

Well my DDR runs at default of 2.6V and now its at the MB Bios Max of 2.8. I ran Memtest-86 for 4 hours with all tests, and it was fine. I'm willing to run the Vcore a bit above 1.525, but of course this increases heat and that is my enemy now. I think I might scarifce any possible higer Ghz numbers if it would mean upping the voltage to a level where the heat becomes excessve.

And thats my $0.02

 

[Opie001]

I have a problem with my Powercolor Radeon 9700 (NP), I think. On cold boots I get an AGP error during POST from my ASUS P4P800 motherboard. When I press reset, everything goes fine. This doesn't happen every time, either.

Does this sound like a power issue, an AGP card issue, or motherboard issue? Card seems to work fine otherwise. Have a 380 watt Antec in there.

Should I be monkeying with the power supply or power to the board? I'm new at this.