X800 Pro freezing up still...

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imported_mikez

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Sep 15, 2004
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Alright well I seem to always be having problems with my new video card!

Basically to sum it up, on several games after a undetermined amount of time, the screen locks up and either the VPU recovery boots in or I have to reboot.

I tried cooling first. The card never gets hotter than 55C. Which I think is quite fine. I tried drivers, no change. I tried psu, with no change. I tried motherboard, no change. I tried ram, no change.

Now I didn't try CPU however it never had this problem before I installed X800.


My specs:

p4 3.0 - temp never goes about 52C
MSI Neo2-Platinum -with latest BIOS
2x 512 mb DDR333
Catalyst 4.9
Fast Write off - Balanced modes in ATI Console
Zero Overclock/Mods
XP Professional - Service Pack 1


The latest thing I tried, right before writing this is I went to 4x AGP instead of 8 AGP. I ran Warcraft 3, a game that it seems to crash the most often in, without a problem. Although I only got to play for about 30 minutes before the game had ended. I will test more tomorrow evening.

I would appreciate any advice you all would have. If it is a problem with running 8X AGP, how can I fix this? I have also read on a few posts someplace that refresh rate could cause this problem? Any idea on fixing a refresh rate? How would I do that if it was the possibly problem?


Another note is that this doesn't seem to happen in every game. Doom3, Call of Duty and Unreal Tournament(ran it all night last night with AI fighting without one crash) seem un-affected. However Farcry, Warcraft 3, Toca: Race Driver 2 seem to crash quite often.

Thanks a lot,

Mike



 
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Somniferum

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Make sure your motherboard's chipset drivers are up-to-date.

Is there a measurable difference in performance on your system between 4x AGP and 8x AGP? If not, and if using 4x AGP fixes the problem, then just leave it at 4x AGP. In a lot of cases the difference is negligible or non-existent.
 
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imported_mikez

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Sep 15, 2004
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No I have not changed my AGP aperature size to 256. I will try that. I thought however that I should be using 128 for best results or should I just coincide with my card having 256mb of video ram?



Omega drivers eh? I have not tried them. I have only tried the catalyst drivers.

Worth a try.


Although turning the card down to 4x seems to have done the trick. ALthough I would rather run it at faster rate if I can. I will look into all those options.

I appreciate it greatly! If anyone else has suggestions I will try that too.

Thanks,

Mike
 
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imported_mikez

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Nope got a new power supply.

Well the 4x didn't help. Nor did the Omega drivers.

I am going to run Hot CPU tonight and see if it is a cpu error. If not I will bring the ati card back.

Thanks for all your help. I hope to get this fixed soon. Tired of not being able to play games.
 
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