Radeon 9600XT Crashing .... question

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I have a system which includes the following:

ASUS A7V8X motherboard
Athlon XP 2800+ Processor
1GB RAM
Radeon 9600XT video card
2 western digital hard disks (120GB, 80GB)
1 DVD+RW
Windows XP Professional SP1

Whenever I play a game that turns the graphics card into accelerated mode I
get VPU crashes.

I did a fresh install of Windows and installed the latest 4-in-1 drivers, the
latest AGP driver and even upgraded my BIOS to the latest release.

I even swapped out a Radeon 9600 Pro that was doing the same thing for the XT
model.

Short of swapping my motherboard I don't know what else to try.

I have a 350W power-supply ... is this adequate?
 
nospam said:
I have a system which includes the following:

ASUS A7V8X motherboard
Athlon XP 2800+ Processor
1GB RAM
Radeon 9600XT video card
2 western digital hard disks (120GB, 80GB)
1 DVD+RW
Windows XP Professional SP1

Whenever I play a game that turns the graphics card into accelerated mode I
get VPU crashes.

I did a fresh install of Windows and installed the latest 4-in-1 drivers, the
latest AGP driver and even upgraded my BIOS to the latest release.

I even swapped out a Radeon 9600 Pro that was doing the same thing for the XT
model.

Short of swapping my motherboard I don't know what else to try.

I have a 350W power-supply ... is this adequate?
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I had a similar problem with an even less powerful PSU. It turns out the
card (or was it the motherboard) wouldn't perform at 8x. Turning it down
to 4x in the ATi drivers fixed it. I still would prefer 8x performance,
though. My system:

GA7-VA motherboard
XP2400+ CPU
512mb RAM
GeCube Radeon 9600XT (128mb)
40GB HDD
FDD
CDROM
DVR-106 DVD burner
etc etc
XP Home SP1
 
I had a similar problem with an even less powerful PSU. It turns out the
card (or was it the motherboard) wouldn't perform at 8x. Turning it down
to 4x in the ATi drivers fixed it. I still would prefer 8x performance,
though. My system:

GA7-VA motherboard
XP2400+ CPU
512mb RAM
GeCube Radeon 9600XT (128mb)
40GB HDD
FDD
CDROM
DVR-106 DVD burner
etc etc
XP Home SP1
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Thanks ... I'll give it a try.
I'm disappointed with this ASUS board. I've had a few quirky problems which
simply didn't exist with my Gigabyte board in my other (slower) machine. I
used to swear by ASUS.

One thing that seemed to improve things: I increased the AGP voltage to 1.6.
I've only load tested it for less than an hour. (Which is far longer than
it ran before.) I'll test it more when I get home this evening.

Do you see any negatives to changing the AGP voltage from "AUTO" ???
 
nospam said:
Thanks ... I'll give it a try.
I'm disappointed with this ASUS board. I've had a few quirky problems which
simply didn't exist with my Gigabyte board in my other (slower) machine. I
used to swear by ASUS.

One thing that seemed to improve things: I increased the AGP voltage to 1.6.
I've only load tested it for less than an hour. (Which is far longer than
it ran before.) I'll test it more when I get home this evening.

Do you see any negatives to changing the AGP voltage from "AUTO" ???
Click to expand...

I've tried ABit...good; Asus...not so good; and Gigabyte. I swear by
Gigabyte now. Fewer problems, and good solid performance. IMHO of course
 
I've tried ABit...good; Asus...not so good; and Gigabyte. I swear by
Gigabyte now. Fewer problems, and good solid performance. IMHO of course
Click to expand...

I'm coming to the point where I agree with you. ASUS used to be good in
years past.

My other machine has a Gigabyte motherboard. I'm MUCH happier with that
mobo.
 
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