P4T533-C and Asus Radeon 9600XT

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Golfe

Hi

Just bought me a new vga card but have some problems.
The reason I changed vga card (from Abit 4200Ti Otes) was that I experienced
strange behaviour in games. In the middle of a game the game suddenly
stopped... Just disappeared, and I was back to desktop without any trace of
the game. No error report in eventviewer either.
But the same problem popped up togehter with my new vga card as well.
So there must be something wrong with my MB (P4T533-C, P4 2.66GHZ, 1GB
Kingston RDRAM)
Asus smart doctor that came with my vga card reports "VGA's voltage is out
of safe bound. Motherboard doesn't supply reliable 3.3 voltage"
But Asus Probe doesn't report that error.
Another thing: I cant adjust Fanspeed on VGA card with Asus smart doctor. I
can use the sliders or select smartcooling, but the fan doesn't react.
I have tried different Bios, Three different Powersupplies, etc...
Any suggestions?
 
Golfe said:
Hi

Just bought me a new vga card but have some problems.
The reason I changed vga card (from Abit 4200Ti Otes) was that I experienced
strange behaviour in games. In the middle of a game the game suddenly
stopped... Just disappeared, and I was back to desktop without any trace of
the game. No error report in eventviewer either.
But the same problem popped up togehter with my new vga card as well.
So there must be something wrong with my MB (P4T533-C, P4 2.66GHZ, 1GB
Kingston RDRAM)
Asus smart doctor that came with my vga card reports "VGA's voltage is out
of safe bound. Motherboard doesn't supply reliable 3.3 voltage"
But Asus Probe doesn't report that error.
Another thing: I cant adjust Fanspeed on VGA card with Asus smart doctor. I
can use the sliders or select smartcooling, but the fan doesn't react.
I have tried different Bios, Three different Powersupplies, etc...
Any suggestions?
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I'm also using a P4T533-C and I have the same issue with my VGA-card (Asus
8200 Pure). I'd found out, that the "error"-message from Smart-Doctor
appears only if the card becomes hot during playing a game. It seems to be
very strange, because when I've used the card on older systems (P3B-F) the
temperature was much lower while playing a game... But I've no crashes or
other problems with that. Sorry that I cannot help you with a solution...
 
Golfe said:
Hi

Just bought me a new vga card but have some problems.
The reason I changed vga card (from Abit 4200Ti Otes) was that I experienced
strange behaviour in games. In the middle of a game the game suddenly
stopped... Just disappeared, and I was back to desktop without any trace of
the game. No error report in eventviewer either.
But the same problem popped up togehter with my new vga card as well.
So there must be something wrong with my MB (P4T533-C, P4 2.66GHZ, 1GB
Kingston RDRAM)
Asus smart doctor that came with my vga card reports "VGA's voltage is out
of safe bound. Motherboard doesn't supply reliable 3.3 voltage"
But Asus Probe doesn't report that error.
Another thing: I cant adjust Fanspeed on VGA card with Asus smart doctor. I
can use the sliders or select smartcooling, but the fan doesn't react.
I have tried different Bios, Three different Powersupplies, etc...
Any suggestions?
Click to expand...
Have you checked the actual temperature of the video card after one of
these crashes? I had similar problems with a P4T-E and found the video
card (either a GeForce2 MX or later an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro) to be almost
too hot to touch. Placing a slot fan below the video card eliminated
the problem. Even if the rest of your system is cool the video card can
still get too hot as the chips are hidden from the normal direct flow of
air through the case.
 
doctor.
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I had a similar problem. I found it was a problem with my memory. XP ran
fine, but as soon as I taxed the system with a game I got an error message.
Mine would run stable if I cut back the memory multiplier from 4x to 3x.
You could try that and see if it helps. I had Kingston RDRAM and they
replaced the bad stick no problem.

Kevin
 
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