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New ATI AIW9800Pro crashing all the time

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Biggles604   11-25-2004 at 07:27:14 PM

I keep getting random crashes ever since I installed my ATI AIW9800Pro. They occur totally at random, sometimes after 30seconds, sometimes several hours. If I am playing a game, then the system will either lock up or reset, and if I am on the desktop, it will crash and the VPU recovery will switch over to software mode and mail an error report. When the card is running, it runs perfectly normally.
I have tried new and old drivers for everything, and I am at a total loss. I think it may be a bad card.

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pat   11-26-2004 at 06:35:19 AM
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maybe you have a weak PSU. Are you sure this card get enough power?

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!

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rx7000   11-26-2004 at 07:11:30 AM
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My computer was doing exactly that, and it ended up being a bad stick of ram. Try running memtest86, ya never know, I checked everything else before I checked that.

But on the other hand it does sound like either your running out of power, or maybe the card / proc is getting to hot.

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Biggles604   11-26-2004 at 08:03:04 AM
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The memory runs fine. Just re-scanned. I wasn't expecting it to be bad anyway, since my computer was really stable with my old video card (Ti4200).
It's not heat, I have had the card crash when it was jsut booted for the first time in the morning. Also I put a VGA silencer on to see if that helped. Now I am worried that I won't be able to RMA the card if I need to, since I couldn't remove the old crappy heatsink without damaging the plastic clips.
Now, it's down to three possibilities.
1: PSU doesn't meet spec (5V rail is 4.68-4.72)
2: BIOS needs flashing, new version released last Friday
3: Card is bad and needs warranty

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