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the_gamer   07-11-2007 at 06:54:37 PM

My psu is a 480W xilence power supply with 24pin connector, my motherboard is an asrock conroexfire-esata2 with 20 pin socket. I've been using a 24 to 20 pin connector thing, but I've been having problems with random crashing while gaming and buggy graphics. I've tried sending in my graphics card (bfg 7900gt 256mb oc) to be repaired and reinstalling graphics card drivers but it doesn't do anything. Just wondering if this could have anything to do with this connector, or my power supply in general, and also if there's any way that I can test that the power supply is working as it should. Thanks in advance :)

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jtt283   07-11-2007 at 07:22:18 PM
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Using a 24pin PSU on a 20pin mobo should be just fine. It's going the other way that often causes problems.
What are your temps? Heat can cause the problems you describe. If your temps are normal, I'd run some memory tests.
You could also try underclocking the graphics card and see if stability improves.
Try turning down (or off) any sound acceleration features. Buggy sound drivers are not uncommon. A possible giveaway is looping sound when your system crashes.

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ttpete   07-11-2007 at 07:55:03 PM
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there should be no issues with a 24-20. If you have a voltmeter, you can check to see if the PSU is dropping voltage when your gaming.

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evongugg   07-11-2007 at 08:23:04 PM
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This might help:

An error occurred in NVIDIA Graphics Driver

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin [...] _topview=1

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the_gamer   07-12-2007 at 09:58:00 PM
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evongugg wrote :

This might help:

An error occurred in NVIDIA Graphics Driver

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin [...] _topview=1



From the website:

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The following motherboard BIOS settings are suggested for better stability, but are not required settings:

Assign IRQ to VGA Enabled
VGA palette snooping Disabled
PCI Latency Timer 128
Video BIOS Shadowing Disabled
Video RAM Shadowing Disabled
USWC Options Disabled
PnP O/S Installed Enabled
Video BIOS Cacheable Disabled
Video RAM Cacheable Disabled
AGP Graphics Aperture 64MB (or half of your total system memory)



I had my PCI latency thingy on 32, could that have caused the problems that I described?

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arisgr0   07-18-2007 at 01:09:44 AM
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ttpete wrote :

there should be no issues with a 24-20. If you have a voltmeter, you can check to see if the PSU is dropping voltage when your gaming.



I have one.
What should i measure while im playing?
Thank you

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