ATI 9800XT dual monitor problem...

[[DAD]MeR|iN]

Ok, dug around the forums and it doesnt seem that anyone has encountered th problem i am having with my card.

I have a 9800Pro 128bit with the r350 core, flashed to a 9800XT, OCed and running very stably while only one monitor is attached. When i connect the second one to it, i can still game just fine and runs stably without a problem, but then out of the blue, sometimes after 5 minutes, sometimes after 4 days, its totally random, my comp freezes and reboots itself. it has happened ONLY when i have my second monoitor attached. I can't figure it out, i tried to change around the drivers and stuff, underclock it, put the original PRO bios on it, but nothing helps. i have had it on single monitor for about 2 weeks now and no problems whatsoever. then i tried it again, and as soon as i connected the second monitor, 5 minutes later it crashes.

anyone have any ideas???

thanks

~M

[[DAD]MeR|iN]

bump...... anybody???

[[DAD]MeR|iN]

wow... ... another bump...

[Frumpco_]

I dunno if you asked this question b4 but I do remember that question being asked about 2 weeks ago I forget what the outcome was, as for me I dunno I assume you tried diff drivers and all that fun stuff?

[Gautam]

Could the pins on your second monitor (or the AGP port on the card) be messed up?

[[DAD]MeR|iN]

all the pins are fine, the agp port is fine, i even cleaned everything up with alchohal once again... im really in the dark about what could be wrong. I even underclocked my card and it still does the same thing.

[[DAD]MeR|iN]

wow.... has anyone seen this before?

[fabulouscoops]

It is only a 128 bit card. Maybe the poor thing is just getting too hot and shutting down. Can you measure temps?

[mysubaruimp]

Try turning off "Fast Write"

[lowfat]

have you tried just plugging one monitor in to the second connection to see if it shuts down still?

[[DAD]MeR|iN]

i have tried that, still does... im going to try the turning off fast writes. Its not all that hot its running at likt 55C, i just cant figure out how it craps my whole computer out.

[Jimbob7]

do you get a BSOD or just a hard reboot? Either way, im pretty sure its drivers, when i started dual, i had to change drivers, i had a problem like this, but it was more to do with tabbing out of games and then tabbing back in, i'd get a BSOD with nv_45 or something driver error. That could be the problem. Try latest drivers.

[[DAD]MeR|iN]

hmmm, the fast writes thing didnt work, i have tried tons of new drivers, omegas too, but those screw my comp up even more... nothing helps.

[[DAD]MeR|iN]

i figured it out!!!!

ok so this is a dumb thing to overlook imo, but i always have winamp running... have over 16,000 some songs in a playlist... so when i scroll down and it loads all the info, it gets toa certain point of overloading my RAM with info, and it crashes my comp... tried it 3 times to make sure. it would stay alive until i scroll around enough. i watchd it eat the memory in the task manager... lol... rough stuff, cant believe i didnt think of this in the first place. so all of you wih winamp, beware of large playlists!!!!! thanks for all your help and insight along the way!!

[fabulouscoops]

Lol, get a gig of RAM

[A1Killer]

yea sell the 2 256 peices and get 2 512s or 2 1 gigs that way you wont run out of ram for a while lol

[shellshock]

man, thats crazy! I wouldnt have ever thought something like that can cripple your pc! man, thats weird