ATI 9700 Pro unable to tolerate high front side bus

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I have a system with Athlon XP2400 (front side bus 266) and a Gigabyte
7VAXP-ultra motherboard with PC2700 RAM. It runs well. When I upgrade to
an Athlon XP 2500 Barton (front side bus 333), everything works except any
application that require 3D acceleration - eg all computer games, 3D Mark.
The system crashes with serious errors! I have tried loosening memory
setting, disable fast write and change to AGP4x instead of 8x. Nothing
works. Any help please.

Ray
 
Smacks of undervolted CPU - try raising it some.
If you're o/c'ing your 9700 - raise that voltage one notch.
All on the assumption that your chipset sports these BIOS adjustments.
If not, you could be outa luck.

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Epox 8RDA3+ (227 FSB : Northbridge 2.0 v-dd with Slim Volcano + 19CFM)
XP1700 DUT3C (10.0 - 2270 MHz stable : 1.93 v-core - Volcano 9 + 75CFM)
2 x OCZ 256MB PC3700 (454 - 7-3-3 / 2.0 dual : 2.9 v-dimm)
Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro (393/371 : 1.6 v-agp - Slim Volcano + 52CFM)
Maxtor DM 9+ (8MB) - 52CFM
Vantec 4-channel Fan Control
Air - 41/55C
3DMk03 - 5,953
3DMk01 - 18,123
 
Sounds more like a bad processor or memory, to me.

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ray stood up, at show-n-tell, and said:
 
Ray:

Just a guess, but maybe timing problems between the ATI card's
internal bus and your Front Side Bus.

Also:

Go to ATI.com to get the latest drivers.

Make sure you don't have an onboard (integrated) Graphics Processor on
your Motherboard , and that the MoBo will allow you to disable it in
the BIOS, (or, in other words, make it the secondary GPU. Same thing
can happen with onboard audio and network chips, too). Some
manufacturers won't even allow this to be done with their boards. This
can be a problem with some of the less expensive MoBo's.

Be sure you're using DirectX version 8.1. (Very important for 3D
modeling.)

Look in device mangler to be sure you don't have duplicate entries for
your ATI card and monitor entries.

Make sure you have the correct monitor selected.

Keep you computer as far away from any indoor antennas as possible,
and don't use a coax cable splitter, as it degrades the signal.

If you can be more specific about what kind of problems you're having
with your system, perhaps we can give you some other tips.

Good Luck,
J.D.
 
I have a system with Athlon XP2400 (front side bus 266) and a Gigabyte
7VAXP-ultra motherboard with PC2700 RAM. It runs well. When I upgrade to
an Athlon XP 2500 Barton (front side bus 333), everything works except any
application that require 3D acceleration - eg all computer games, 3D Mark.
The system crashes with serious errors! I have tried loosening memory
setting, disable fast write and change to AGP4x instead of 8x. Nothing
works. Any help please.

Ray
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Do this: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

BoroLad
 
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