Club3D Radeon 9600 256mb

docmayhem

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Hi Mates,

i have the following problem and i hope somebody could help me :)

I bought last days a Club3D Radeon 9600Pro 256mb.
And I installed it correctly:

Bios update, newest
MB Chipset drivers, newest DirectX, Catalyst 3.9, and I installed my System new;

Problem: when I play a Game (Zero Hour, BG2....) after about 1-5 minutes there comes a black screen and refresh rate turns back to 30 - 50HZ; and then comes an error (Zero Hour: VPU failure; BG2 3D problems turns back 2 Software rendering :)) or the PC reboot´s himself or he [-peep-] up;

PLZ HELP !

System

ASRock MB
Athlon XP 2600+
1 GB Ram
Club3D Radeon 9600pro Value Edition 256mb
Nokia 445XPro 21" Monitor
80GB/8 mb Cache Diamond Maxtor HDD

Doc
 

Crashman

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Probably heat. One of my customers just got a 9600 non-pro, it didn't even have thermal interface material between the heatsink and VPU. I'd take the cooler off and slap some of your favorite heatsink compound on there, if there isn't any.

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BirdRobin

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I have problems running chaos legion and CS 1.6 too and i have all the latest drivers installed... Heck b4 i installed the new catalyst drivers my old drivers can play cs 1.6... now i cant even access console once i do that my com hangs and after i manually restarted it its still the same... -_-

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Crashman

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You're cooler could be 10 stories tall and do little to cool the card if there's no interface material to close the air gaps between it and the VPU. That's why I recommened checking to make sure there's an interface material in there.

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