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- May 12, 2004
- Location
- North Texas
Hi All,
It's been a while scince I posted. My last post was concerning my Dual build-up. Finally got around to it after many months and lots of personal challenges. What i have is..GA-7DPDXDW+ MB..with 2 [35] watt barton mobiles (2400's)..1 Gig Kingston pc-2700...Western digital 36 gig raptor and WD 80 Gig 8meg 7200 rpm IDE drive. I have the onboard sound disabled and have installed a CMI pci sound card. I also have a 4 port USB 2.0, 2 port Ieee 1394 combo pci card installed. My Vid card is an ATI AIW 8500. (THE 8500 w/128 meg infineon memory chips). I finally got the build done new years weekend. got case mods done and everything installed. It's running 2485 ghz X 2. I have not run any killer stability tests on it Because.....Here is my problem...everything seems okee dokee but i get random blank screens in the middle of doing something. I have to hit escape numerous times and click the mouse repeatedly and i get my monitor back, nothing lost , still same open stuff open , except, I'm now at 640x480 resolution. It has got to be my vid card. I've tried overclocking it, underclocking it ,super cooling it...nothing seems to work. So i need suggestions for a new video card for under 100 bucks that will play nice with my high FSB. By the way..I'm at 17 multi x 146 FSB @ 1.75 vcore by way of wire in socket mods. Temps are 38cpu 0, 43 cpu 1 @ idle and 48 and 51 at load. Any and all help will be appreciated. And a big thank you to all the posters for their wealth of info on this site. This place was my manual during the build-up and case mods.
coyote
It's been a while scince I posted. My last post was concerning my Dual build-up. Finally got around to it after many months and lots of personal challenges. What i have is..GA-7DPDXDW+ MB..with 2 [35] watt barton mobiles (2400's)..1 Gig Kingston pc-2700...Western digital 36 gig raptor and WD 80 Gig 8meg 7200 rpm IDE drive. I have the onboard sound disabled and have installed a CMI pci sound card. I also have a 4 port USB 2.0, 2 port Ieee 1394 combo pci card installed. My Vid card is an ATI AIW 8500. (THE 8500 w/128 meg infineon memory chips). I finally got the build done new years weekend. got case mods done and everything installed. It's running 2485 ghz X 2. I have not run any killer stability tests on it Because.....Here is my problem...everything seems okee dokee but i get random blank screens in the middle of doing something. I have to hit escape numerous times and click the mouse repeatedly and i get my monitor back, nothing lost , still same open stuff open , except, I'm now at 640x480 resolution. It has got to be my vid card. I've tried overclocking it, underclocking it ,super cooling it...nothing seems to work. So i need suggestions for a new video card for under 100 bucks that will play nice with my high FSB. By the way..I'm at 17 multi x 146 FSB @ 1.75 vcore by way of wire in socket mods. Temps are 38cpu 0, 43 cpu 1 @ idle and 48 and 51 at load. Any and all help will be appreciated. And a big thank you to all the posters for their wealth of info on this site. This place was my manual during the build-up and case mods.
coyote