Hey all,
I am at my rope's end with this one. I busted myself getting an 8INXP motherboard as they are so rare these days. I managed to get it and rebuild my system thusly:
p4-3.06
1.5 gig crucial ddr mem
sapphire radeon 9700 pro atlantis
antec truepower 480 watt
sb audigy 2
winxp pro
My machine intermittently crashes with either a dead desktop or the now infamous INFINITE_THREAD_LOOP in the video device.
I am using the catalyst 3.1 drivers and not up'ing to dx9 (still on 8.1a). I also found that the infinite thread loop thing was solved when I 'pushed' the agp card into the slot more firmly. A tech friend told me that agp cards we nortorious for popping out due to heat and movement - they may still work but you get errors. Wierd...
Yet now I get these intermittent crashes where the machine just locks up. I have looked for answers but cannot see any - obviously Giga-Byte and ATI arent helpful, so is there anyone else out there getting these problems with the same similar config?
I have also upped the 8INXP bios to version F4 as well. I don't the the DPS power errors like some people have mentioned.
Anywaze, any help would be appreciated.
Armitage Shanks
I am at my rope's end with this one. I busted myself getting an 8INXP motherboard as they are so rare these days. I managed to get it and rebuild my system thusly:
p4-3.06
1.5 gig crucial ddr mem
sapphire radeon 9700 pro atlantis
antec truepower 480 watt
sb audigy 2
winxp pro
My machine intermittently crashes with either a dead desktop or the now infamous INFINITE_THREAD_LOOP in the video device.
I am using the catalyst 3.1 drivers and not up'ing to dx9 (still on 8.1a). I also found that the infinite thread loop thing was solved when I 'pushed' the agp card into the slot more firmly. A tech friend told me that agp cards we nortorious for popping out due to heat and movement - they may still work but you get errors. Wierd...
Yet now I get these intermittent crashes where the machine just locks up. I have looked for answers but cannot see any - obviously Giga-Byte and ATI arent helpful, so is there anyone else out there getting these problems with the same similar config?
I have also upped the 8INXP bios to version F4 as well. I don't the the DPS power errors like some people have mentioned.
Anywaze, any help would be appreciated.
Armitage Shanks