"Hardware Lockdown" when games played on 9600 XT

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When I play Unreal 2k3, Halo, Max Payne 2, about 3 minutes into the
game the frame freezes, then gets all fuzzy and exits to windows. In
windows the ATI utility tells me that there was a hardware lockdown
because of bad communications with the card due to the driver. I was
origanally using version 3.8 catalyst drivers, and then I uninstalled
those and installed 3.10 but the problem still persists,
Help!!!!!!!!!!





-Thanks
 
New one for me sounds like a dud card,anyone ?

Make sure the card is pushed in all the way :)
 
I would say so...My9600XT has no issues so far..COD runs
awesome..Spearhead...looped 3DMark03 5x with no issues..so you may just have
a dud.
 
(e-mail address removed) (matthew) wrote in
But why would the games play fine right when they start up
if the cards a dud?
Click to expand...

It may be that it needs to be pushed a bit first before it
causes problems (heat problems?).

However I found initially with my 9700Pro that I could play
games for a few minutes then they'd lock.

Initial cure was to reduce the agp speed to 4x rather than
8x. Once ATI had released another couple of Cat driver
versions I found I could up it to 8x with no problems.

One day I may reinstall the 3.2's to see if they really were
the problem.
 
I have the same problem with my 9600 pro extreme. Runs ok in 4x AGP, but 8X
runs for a minute or so then crashes. 3D Mark 2001 is a good test. Crashes
during the first test in 8x, but runs right through in 4x.
Could be a voltage problem, not sure. I hope it's just a driver issue, as
there may be hope for me too.

Good luck.

Psyke
 
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