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Used to be a great pc running 2 x1950pros crossfire, installed 3870 x2, all new drivers, new install of xp 64bit, 2 weeks of trouble shooting at MSI, Toms, Sapphore, ATI, freeezes all games, Id like to shhot it with a 12 gauge... here is the turd... thing is driving me to drink!

OS: Win XP Pro SP2 64 Bit
Board: MSI K9A Platinum Crossfire ATI 3200 Chipset Bios version 1.8
RAM: 4GIG Patriot Extreme DDR2 800MHz
CPU: AMD Athlon 6400+ 64x2 3.2 GHz
Hard drives: (2) WD Caviar 250 GB
Graphics cards: (1) 3870 x 2 Sapphire
PSU: Antec TruePower Quattro 850 watt
Burners: (2) Sony/Nec 7170A
Chassis Gigabyte 3D Aurora Tower
Sound Card: Creative labs X-Fi SoundBlaster Xtreme Gamer
Keyboard: Saitek Eclipse
Mouse: Logitek Mx518
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Graphics card


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^^???


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update drivers, try decreasing the clock speeds


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Hes changed two things, OS and card, so I picked card. He also hasnt given any other info, so I made it short as well. When the OP wants help, he will get it


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I think he is not looking for help.
Read the title of his post
Are you selling your rig???
If yes, how much?

On the other hand, what games are you playing?
At what resolution?
AA and AF on?
Are you overclocking?

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ill give you $20 for the possesed evil pc

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You shouldnt be selling things here ;)

Elimination - strip out everything bar the needed stuff - take out all the ram bar 1 stick, the extra sound card, ditch everything! if you have your old video cards install one of them instead, any old psu lying around try it too.


Message edited by apache_liv es on 05-04-2008 at 01:44:03 AM

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You seem to have a lot of "fluff" that could be causing a driver conflict. I'd suggest (as others have said) a clean install with minimum hardware. Then run ram, 3DMark, etc. tests. Issues like these are usually software.


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ditch the creative card. you seem to be suffering from a driver conflict/software problem. number 1 prob with creative's stuff atm. especially with 64bit os. seriously do you even use eax? it's the only thing those cards offer...


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Guys I am just ranting, and I apologize, The CPU is approx 2/mo old, the o/s was installed the same day, previuos to this 3870x2 card I had (2) Sapphire x1950pros installed running crossfire for about 5 months, then I bought (2) Sapphire 3870 512mb cards, installed them about 3-3 1/2 weeks ago thats when the sh*t hit the fan, the cards would run great alone but crossfire sucked... so I RMA'ed the cards and got this (1) Sapphire 3870x2 card oer the advice of ATI support.
I was still having issues do I re-installed the o/s last night, installed all windows updates, m/b drivers, ati card drivers games and patches... thats it, in the past week and 1/2 I have posted on forums, spoke with ATI, MSI, emailed Sapphire 9since they dont have a phone # (WOW!).
the Bios is the latest ver 1.8 flashed last November. This just makes no freeking sense! I am not a very patient person but I have done my best to learn and fix this garbage.

Honestly Id like to see this thru, HELP!

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Just out of curiosity, the 6400+ is a 125w processor. Don't the 125w CPU's eventually start raping boards with anything less than like 6 or 7 phase power, blowing MOSFETS, poppin caps and what-not? I'm not sure what kind of power management that board has though, just a thought. It does sound a little like a possible driver conflict though, but also a little more like overheating if it's only freezing during games... You could try stressing the little hoe with some CPU intensive benchmarking tool and see if you can maker freeze that way too.

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the 780g boards [micro atx] are the only one's so far to exibit this problem.
the board he has was meant as an enthusiast's board, not a budget htpc or office box.


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albundy2 wrote :

the 780g boards [micro atx] are the only one's so far to exibit this problem.
the board he has was meant as an enthusiast's board, not a budget htpc or office box.



Its MSI, expect problems!

AMD didnt design the platform with high power/heat in mind - Intel learnt the hard way with prescott, AMD didnt learn from there competitor - radial cooling to cool the cpu AND regulators, sockets for maximum power throughput - there will be more and more reports on AMD in the future.

I also wouldn't put it past me that that cpu may be a dud, iv seen a few too many dead/faulty AMDs in recent times - a 6000 and a 4400 recently.

I suggest to download and create/burn UBCD4WIN and use it to test your system out.

Also under clock everything...


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I'll bid $25 for the evil possessed PC.
This would be a great project for my studies of the supernatural.

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arson94 wrote :

Just out of curiosity, the 6400+ is a 125w processor. Don't the 125w CPU's eventually start raping boards with anything less than like 6 or 7 phase power, blowing MOSFETS, poppin caps and what-not? I'm not sure what kind of power management that board has though, just a thought. It does sound a little like a possible driver conflict though, but also a little more like overheating if it's only freezing during games... You could try stressing the little hoe with some CPU intensive benchmarking tool and see if you can maker freeze that way too.

Arson94


I can run 3dmark w/ no problem, Idid a little bit ago, got 12000 marks just fine, as far as my CPU I havent heard any negative issues wit it.

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ok, here is what I heard/ was told, the other night while playing COD4, I typed a message and asked if anyone had a 3870x2, two playes responded yes, then I asked If they were experienxing any issues with freezing during gameplay, they both said yes and they also said ATI is hoping to address this issue with the new drivers, Sapphire tech support kind of sucks they dont even have a phone number in the USA, they only respond via email,
in short I have spent a fair ammount of money and time to have a pretty decent pc, actually we all have, and if the above is correct about the drivers these tools at ATI should work these issues out b4 they out 400.00 cards on the market for us to troubleshoot and go thru all this dramma.
tonight I am going to run memtest 86 and see how that pans out... any other tests I can run here?

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jcgross wrote :

I can run 3dmark w/ no problem, Idid a little bit ago, got 12000 marks just fine, as far as my CPU I havent heard any negative issues wit it.



So whats it do?


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apache_lives wrote :

So whats it do?


if you are refereing to my pc, it freezes up during gameplay. but everthing else is just fine.

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jcgross wrote :

if you are refereing to my pc, it freezes up during gameplay. but everthing else is just fine.



download and run ATi Tool and orthos and run both for a couple of hours

also downgrade to XP 32 and try it


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evilshuriken wrote :

I'll bid $25 for the evil possessed PC.
This would be a great project for my studies of the supernatural.


funny! make youe peace w/ god first, plus havi