AIW 9700 pro gaming issue

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John Stroud

Every time I go to start a high end game(Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Call
of Duty, Jedi Academy), my pc locks up after the splash screen. I am forced
to do a hard reboot to get running again.

Here's what I'm running:
ATI All-in-wonder 9700 Pro 128 MB
Windows XP Professional
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8 GHz)
Apoen AK79D-Max motherboard
512 MB DDR400 RAM
80 GB hard drive, (70 GB free)
500W power supply

The strange thing is, I used to be able to play these games on this pc, but
now for some reason I can't. I have tried to update every driver, patch,
etc. I can think of, but I have gotten nowhere. Last week I even blew out
my hard drive and did a fresh install of Windows, downloaded the freshest
drivers I could find, but still no luck, all these games crash at startup.
Everything else on my pc seems to run fine except games.

If anyone has any advice about what to do to fix this I sure would
appreciate it. I am getting desperate. If you need any more info let me
know.

Thanks
John
 
could be the graphics card overheating. i had similar problems, and after
numerous software solutions failed i noticed that the fan on the graphics
card wasnt going round (doh!). after installing a zalman heatsink all my
problems went away :-)

therefore my suggestion is to check your gpu fan is working!

good luck
craig
 
Thanks for the tip- unfortunately I just checked the fan on the card and it
seems to be spinning around just fine.
Hmmm....
 
Does your case have a case fan?

Everything gets hot, not just your CPU and GPU. A front mounted case fan is
a must IMHO and are dirt cheap. Almost all cases have the mount for them
already built in.
 
Try raising AGP voltage one or two notches in the bios, and turn off
fastwrites in bios. Report back after doing these.

rms
 
I have a couple case fans. In fact, the inside of my pc is fan-mania! One
on the CPU, one on the GPU, one on the PS, and 2 case fans.
 
I turned off the fastwrite, and notched up the AGP voltage, first from 1.50V
to 1.55V, then tried again up to 1.60V. Sadly, there was no change.
Thanks anyway, though. If you have any further suggestions I would be glad
to hear them...

-John
 
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