I did the 9500 np install last night, and I have to say I was a very happy man. The soft9700 patch appeared to work flawlessly and the card I got seems to be a real OC workhorse. It is now read as a 256bit 9700 with all 8 pipelines. The Sapphire cards appear to not be clock locked as I was able to crank the thing up real well without flashing anything. I didn't even find the limits because it was getting late. Got up to about a 340 core 330 mem without any problem. Best $139 I have spent on my system!
Now the issue...The system crashes on some of the 3DMark2001se tests. It did that even before any patch or OCing. I even installed the latest directX and vid driver and tried again. No dice. I set my system to default bios settings, placed a fan next to the comp...no help. The strange thing is that 3dMark2003 ran perfectly as did Dronez. I also had the thing running for hours while I installed stuff and surfed the web. Do you have any suggestions? It always died on the nature test and the bump map test. Thanks again.
Athlon 1.2GHz on ABit KT7a-RAID
ATI Radeon 9500 128mg (9700)
2 IBM DTLA 307030 RAIDed
512MB CAS 2 PC150
AWE32 SB
430W Enermax PS
Now the issue...The system crashes on some of the 3DMark2001se tests. It did that even before any patch or OCing. I even installed the latest directX and vid driver and tried again. No dice. I set my system to default bios settings, placed a fan next to the comp...no help. The strange thing is that 3dMark2003 ran perfectly as did Dronez. I also had the thing running for hours while I installed stuff and surfed the web. Do you have any suggestions? It always died on the nature test and the bump map test. Thanks again.
Athlon 1.2GHz on ABit KT7a-RAID
ATI Radeon 9500 128mg (9700)
2 IBM DTLA 307030 RAIDed
512MB CAS 2 PC150
AWE32 SB
430W Enermax PS
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