Video/sound problems with ATI Radeon 9800

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i was wondering if anyone could help me solve my little problem
unfortunetly it's not the easiest to explain

When i run games or video and music files (especially quicktime files
i get a strange and really annoying bug. The sound gets distorted i
such a way that i sounds like a machine gun because it has very shor
burst of a repeating sound.
Also when this occurs (which can sometimes 2 or 3 times a minute) th
video playback is interrupted and becomes jerk

This problem only occured when i put the Radeon 9800 into my system.
have the latest graphics drivers and codecs. i have also reformatte
my system which has had no effect

any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
 
Tygra said:
i was wondering if anyone could help me solve my little problem,
unfortunetly it's not the easiest to explain.

When i run games or video and music files (especially quicktime files)
i get a strange and really annoying bug. The sound gets distorted in
such a way that i sounds like a machine gun because it has very short
burst of a repeating sound.
Also when this occurs (which can sometimes 2 or 3 times a minute) the
video playback is interrupted and becomes jerky

This problem only occured when i put the Radeon 9800 into my system. i
have the latest graphics drivers and codecs. i have also reformatted
my system which has had no effect.

any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
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You're installing an advanced 3d graphics card, though 3 generations back
from front end offerings. That card will want all sorts of resources to
run. Fast CPU, RAM, through-output. What do you have?

The first thing I would want to know is what is your CPU usage when this
happens. Is it jumping to 100%, if so, what is going on? How fast is your
CPU?

Next, how much RAM do you have in your system? Current suggestions is a
minimum of 500 meg. 1 gig is better. Tech notes for Vista suggests 2 gig.
More is always better.

Do you have anything else running when this happens? A fast big computer
can do many things at the same time, while a marginal system will limp along
under the strain of advanced graphics.

You could have a resource allocation conflict as well. Though those
problems are mostly on older equipment / operating systems.

You could have a virus, Trojan horse, or a key logger running and not know
it.

William
 
I have checked the cpu usage when playing a videoclip, it is about
5-11% before the bug occurs and then when it does the usage stays the
same.

On my system i run windows xp with an AMD Athlon XP 3000 (2.16GHz)
with 1Gb ram

i have tried it with nothing else running, which has made no
difference
 
Tygra said:
i was wondering if anyone could help me solve my little problem,
unfortunetly it's not the easiest to explain.

When i run games or video and music files (especially quicktime files)
i get a strange and really annoying bug. The sound gets distorted in
such a way that i sounds like a machine gun because it has very short
burst of a repeating sound.
Also when this occurs (which can sometimes 2 or 3 times a minute) the
video playback is interrupted and becomes jerky

This problem only occured when i put the Radeon 9800 into my system. i
have the latest graphics drivers and codecs. i have also reformatted
my system which has had no effect.

any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Click to expand...


I had a similar problem only my system would freeze when I would try to
backup my hard drive and would also lock up on the high end games.

Abit KV-85 MB, 1gig ram, AMD 64 3000 socket 754 and a total of 3 hard
drives one of which is SATA and the other two are IDE. R&r of the 9800
cured the lock up. I borrowed another 9800 from a friend with the same
result

By process of elimination, I finally figured out that the problem was
the power supply. Not that there was a fault in the supply but it
appeared that it was insufficient power. So I replaced the 450watt with
a 550watt and the problem disappeared.

Good Luck
 
Tygra said:
i was wondering if anyone could help me solve my little problem,
unfortunetly it's not the easiest to explain.

When i run games or video and music files (especially quicktime files)
i get a strange and really annoying bug. The sound gets distorted in
such a way that i sounds like a machine gun because it has very short
burst of a repeating sound.
Also when this occurs (which can sometimes 2 or 3 times a minute) the
video playback is interrupted and becomes jerky

This problem only occured when i put the Radeon 9800 into my system. i
have the latest graphics drivers and codecs. i have also reformatted
my system which has had no effect.

any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Click to expand...


I had a similar problem only my system would freeze when I would try to
backup my hard drive and would also lock up on the high end games.

Abit KV-85 MB, 1gig ram, AMD 64 3000 socket 754 and a total of 3 hard
drives one of which is SATA and the other two are IDE. R&r of the 9800
cured the lock up. I borrowed another 9800 from a friend with the same
result

By process of elimination, I finally figured out that the problem was
the power supply. Not that there was a fault in the supply but it
appeared that it was insufficient power. So I replaced the 450watt with
a 550watt and the problem disappeared.

Good Luck
 
William said:
You're installing an advanced 3d graphics card, though 3 generations back
from front end offerings. That card will want all sorts of resources to
run. Fast CPU, RAM, through-output. What do you have?

The first thing I would want to know is what is your CPU usage when this
happens. Is it jumping to 100%, if so, what is going on? How fast is your
CPU?

Next, how much RAM do you have in your system? Current suggestions is a
minimum of 500 meg. 1 gig is better. Tech notes for Vista suggests 2 gig.
More is always better.

Do you have anything else running when this happens? A fast big computer
can do many things at the same time, while a marginal system will limp along
under the strain of advanced graphics.

You could have a resource allocation conflict as well. Though those
problems are mostly on older equipment / operating systems.

You could have a virus, Trojan horse, or a key logger running and not know
it.

William
Click to expand...
to backup my hard drive and would also lock up on the high end games.
 
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