REM'ed my 9800pro today. (reboots & fatals @ stock speed on my nforce2)

[T20]

So I get another 9800 Pro made by Saphire yesterday for a friend, he is away, so asks me to test out the card.

Turn it on, everything is great, 3dmark01, 3dmark03, aquamark etc.. all run great no artifacts just perfect.

Then decided to have some fun playing CS. 5 mins into the game, PC restarts. Hmm, not good, check out the clock speeds, everything is stock, and normal. Back to CS, couple of mins into the game, PC freezes. Aghh.

Restart, back to CS again, 5 mins into the game, SOUND loops, everything freezes, 10 seconds later, I get "ATI something automatically restarted your VPU" Alt-Tab, the game didnt crash lol, still in the game. Cool ;p More CS. Game fatals.

Grab the card, back to the store to replace it. :mad:

[DDR-PIII]

rgiht click on your desktop and goto "Settings/advanced/VPU recover, and uncheck enable VPU recover" the restart an d then try CS agian.

[Strida]

Hasn't CS been pretty badly buged with some of the drivers?

Which Catalysts are you running?

[T20]

Originally posted by Strida
Hasn't CS been pretty badly buged with some of the drivers?

Which Catalysts are you running?


wxp-w2k-catalyst-7-981-040127m-013420c


DDR, its too late now, since the card is REM'ed, however I doubt that VPU recover was causing the problems.

Also, with my Nvidia cards, when you get an MSN message notification that slides up on the side while playing CS, everything is cool. But with the ATI card, whole CS screen starts flashing and stuff, untill the notification goes away, which is somewhat annoyin ;p

[Strida]

That's really wierd.

Best of luck to ya though.

[drewthomas14]

i bet it wasnt your card. it was probably your psu .

[T20]

Originally posted by drewthomas14
i bet it wasnt your card. it was probably your psu .


It ran quake, 3dmark, ut2004 on loop for days without the hickups, but when the big bad mighty CS showed up, bam, my 400W enermax PSU gave out. You are right ;p

BTW, got the new one 2 days ago, same thing still, everything is rock solid, but CS crashes like woah.

Flashed my Asus A7n8X-Deluxe with the latest 1007 BIOS, same thing, crashed. Windows reports the crash is caused by HalfLife (CS). Tried 3 Different CATs, no help. Gonna format now, try brand new install of everything see if it helps.

If it doesnt, no biggie, back to ti4200; when D3 is out, will get me an FX5950 or something.

[glock19owner]

Do you have fastwrite turned on?

[T20]

yeah I got fast write on. In both, the driver settings, and the BIOS.

On asus forums, I found out that quite a few people have 9600pro's hanging up on them, and disabling "plug and play OS" in bios, seems to solve that problem for them. A7N8X doesnt have that option in BIOS though ;(

Gonna format tonite, if CS still crashes gonna borrow a friend's PSU, and downlock my FSB, see if CS still crashes then.

[Oni]

Have you uninstalled and re-installed CS since you changed cards?

[T20]

Was most likely the windows.

Format solved everything. 6 hours straight of CS with zero hickups. :p

[Mr.Radar]

Some things: ATI Cards don't like AGP Fast Writes turned on (except the 9600 series which has a hardware bug that's fixed by enablign fast writes). And did you run DriverCleaner (or a similar program) before installing the drivers? nVidia drivers tend to leave lots of little things around that screw up ATI's drivers. Anyways, good to hear it's working now.

[MensInsana]

As people have already said:

*disable fastwrites

*disable vpu-recover

*reboot

It's a bit unclear if you have tried this, so I thought I'd add another comment for emphasis.