Hello guys
I've hung around these forums for awhile, but this is my first post. Im having MAJOR problems and am hoping that somebody can help me. Here's the deal...
Upgraded from a GeForce DDR to an ATI 9500Pro
IT ROCKED.
No problems what-so-ever.
I get GTA: Vice City and it auto-installs DirectX 9. After around half an hour of playing I get a hrad crash and my comp just reboots. So I try again, same problem. So I go get the catalyst 3.2 drivers. Same problem. So I go get DirectX9.0a and the problem gets worse. Now it hard crashes within a minute of play. So I try other games. Now every game I have crashes within a minute of running. Around this time Catalyst 3.4 comes out. I grab it. No help. I change bios settings that may help 1 by 1, but no results. I defrag, run norton windoctor, disk doctor, etc etc. Nothing helps. So I go grab DirectX Eliminator and use it to roll back to DX8.1 and still have the same problem. So I uninstall that Catalyst 3.4 drivers and reinstall the 3.2 drivers. This is where I was 3 weeks ago when I could play games so it should work, I just wont be able to play Vice City. But my games still crash within 1 minute of running.
All other apps work. I can play movies until my eyes pop out. I can run visualizations in WinAmp. I even ran Prime95 to try and stress my cpu thinking maybe it was a heat issue since it's summer and it has gotten hotter. Still no results. I am now at a loss and am hoping somebody, anybody, can offer some advice or even just a direction I can try.
Thanks in Advance.
Athlon 1.4
epox 8k7a+
256megs Crucial DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9500Pro
Soundblaster PCI128
ViewSonic A95f 19"
WinXP Pro SP1
I've hung around these forums for awhile, but this is my first post. Im having MAJOR problems and am hoping that somebody can help me. Here's the deal...
Upgraded from a GeForce DDR to an ATI 9500Pro
IT ROCKED.
No problems what-so-ever.
I get GTA: Vice City and it auto-installs DirectX 9. After around half an hour of playing I get a hrad crash and my comp just reboots. So I try again, same problem. So I go get the catalyst 3.2 drivers. Same problem. So I go get DirectX9.0a and the problem gets worse. Now it hard crashes within a minute of play. So I try other games. Now every game I have crashes within a minute of running. Around this time Catalyst 3.4 comes out. I grab it. No help. I change bios settings that may help 1 by 1, but no results. I defrag, run norton windoctor, disk doctor, etc etc. Nothing helps. So I go grab DirectX Eliminator and use it to roll back to DX8.1 and still have the same problem. So I uninstall that Catalyst 3.4 drivers and reinstall the 3.2 drivers. This is where I was 3 weeks ago when I could play games so it should work, I just wont be able to play Vice City. But my games still crash within 1 minute of running.
All other apps work. I can play movies until my eyes pop out. I can run visualizations in WinAmp. I even ran Prime95 to try and stress my cpu thinking maybe it was a heat issue since it's summer and it has gotten hotter. Still no results. I am now at a loss and am hoping somebody, anybody, can offer some advice or even just a direction I can try.
Thanks in Advance.
Athlon 1.4
epox 8k7a+
256megs Crucial DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9500Pro
Soundblaster PCI128
ViewSonic A95f 19"
WinXP Pro SP1
Anyhow when playing GTA for awhile I also get random crashes, but only when overclocking the card. Recently I fixed the problem entirely by upping all my voltages when I'm in the mood to game. I up VCORE to 1.70 from 1.650, up DDR volt to 2.7 and AGP volt to 1.7 and decrease RAM timings from 6-3-3-2 to 7-3-3-2.5 and it rocks. I can overclock fully to 9700 PRO speeds and I run 4X AF and AA w/o any probs now.
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