9700 pro freezes 3d games

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I just bought a used 9700 pro and installed it. 2d and mpeg work fine but
as soon as I start any 3d activity it freezes, hangs or crashes within 1-10
seconds. Far Cry, Call of Duty, NOLF, Savage, UT2004, Doom3, 3dMark 2001,
ATItool. I have tried the latest ATI and Omega drivers, I have used driver
cleaner 3 to make sure the system was clean, I have disconnected all
extras, CD, DVD, case fan. I have tried another computer - same result.
case and cpu temp ok
specs
AMD barton 2500+
ASUS a7n8x-x
512 mb generic ram
2 hard drives
1 cd, 1 dvd, 1 floppy (all disconnected)
300 watt power supply - generic

I am thinking the ps but looking for ideas before I plunge. The previous
owner said it didn't work in his smaller computer 250watt but worked fine in
his 450 watt.
 
I would think the psu is to blame but also make sure the cards not
overheating.


doughnut
 
[email protected] (john said:
I just bought a used 9700 pro and installed it. 2d and mpeg work fine
but as soon as I start any 3d activity it freezes
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Check the fan still works. I had similar problems with my 2nd hand
9700Pro, and had to change the cooler before everything worked normally.

Andrew McP
 
Thanks to all for their help
update: I put on an Antec 400w power supply. no change
I placed a small room fan blowing right on the video card - no change.
I have walked through ATI troubleshooting guide - made all the bios
adjustments I could - no change
need to remove 1 memory module and test yet.
is there any diagnostic program that can test the various components of the
card?
 
If you have not done a full drive format and reinstall for a while,
that would do wonders.

Just did one theother day fixed lot sof shit that my pc had troubles
with, brocken stuff that nothing that a full reinstall would fix :)


Not ONE crash since the reinstall.
 
will the card pass the direct x tests? direct x diagnostic? if so its probly
overheating.
when runing 2d the card dont heat up much but under a 3d game it heats up
fast.
are you shur its a 9700 and not a 9500 that has been hacked?
get a app to overclock it and use it to underclock it "ati tool" great tool
to test it also
unless you know who you got it from you realy dont know what they did to it.
it may be a 9700 but not a pro and they flashed the bios on it to a pro
speed, so underclock it and see if that helps.
other things to try is lower the agp from 8 to 4 or 2x. but im willing to
bet your card is not a pro and its crashing due to overclocking to pro
speeds
 
john said:
I just bought a used 9700 pro and installed it. 2d and mpeg work
fine but as soon as I start any 3d activity it freezes, hangs or
crashes within 1-10 seconds. Far Cry, Call of Duty, NOLF, Savage,
UT2004, Doom3, 3dMark 2001, ATItool. I have tried the latest ATI and
Omega drivers, I have used driver cleaner 3 to make sure the system
was clean, I have disconnected all extras, CD, DVD, case fan. I
have tried another computer - same result. case and cpu temp ok
specs
AMD barton 2500+
ASUS a7n8x-x
512 mb generic ram
2 hard drives
1 cd, 1 dvd, 1 floppy (all disconnected)
300 watt power supply - generic

I am thinking the ps but looking for ideas before I plunge. The
previous owner said it didn't work in his smaller computer 250watt
but worked fine in his 450 watt.
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Say, did you upgrade yr mainboard (AGP) drivers? That can work wonders
too...

Thomas
 
Update: The card passes direct x testing. adding extra cooling - a fan
blowing in the case made no difference so I am not considering overheating
as a cause yet.
The sticker on it says 9700 (no pro) but it clocks as a pro so I considered
it may be hacked - the box it came in was a pro box but that is easy to
swap. I ran ATItool and clocked it up about 10 points and it held so I am
comfortable it is a pro.
I tried it in another computer SIS651 chipset and same thing. I put it in
an old intel 815 celeron combo and it worked fine - so now we are back to
incompatibility issues. I'll try a few more suggestions - maybe if I can
free up a drive and try a fresh install...

Thanks to all - great support.
 
how can you guys forgot a simplest thing that this card was used under
overclock before, and the fact is it was die! This also explain why you can
get a used 9700pro for cheap, from performance standpoint it's no way close
to outdated.
 
one thing we all forgot to ask? what card did you replace nvidia? you may
have some dll or ini junk left over.
a driver cleaner works well but they may still miss somthing. when i was
swaping cards around gf fx 5200 and ati 9700 pro i missed a reg entery one
time and it crashed every time i tryed a 3d game. "i know the fx 5200 is
crap but i do dual monitors so was just testing it" did a clean install of
xp and fixed it right up. you can just remove the regestery enterys and all
the dll files and all that junk but if you have had the sys runing for a a
year or so its probly time to do a good clean install anyway to clean up all
the junk left over from installing and uninstalling games and apps.
you have a nforce 2 chipset so picking the right nv files to deleat is gona
be hell.
 
that is something I had not considered - I relied upon Driver Cleaner
previous card was a 9600 pro that worked fine - prior to that was nvidia
5600 ultra. I am going to check that.
Thanks
 
resolved the problem - card overheats - lots of cooling or underclocking
resolved it. Runs fine at 300/300 with stock cooling - my guess is my AGP
voltage is a little high.
 
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