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- Apr 6, 2002
On Christmas I received a Built by ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. I installed it, with the 2.2 Catalysts, under Win98SE, and had crashes, spontaneous restarts, and crashes that gave me all types of strange colors on the screen. When my friend and I put together his P4/Radeon 8500 LE setup, we had similar symptoms under Win98, so he upgraded to XP, and everything was fine.
I figured that upgrading to XP would fix my problems, so I bought a copy of XP, and although its a lot more visually pleasing and faster than 98SE, I still have crashes and random restarts, although no more crashes giving me funky colors on the screen.
Under Win98SE and under XP I went through the 2.2, 2.5, and 3.0 Catalysts, with DirectX 8.0-9.0, and still had crashes in games- most notably in Medal of Honor, Spearhead, and Quake3. Under XP, I was able to play both Medal of Honor and Quake3 multiplayer for a while, but still had crashes/restarts in Medal of Honor, and could no longer play Medal of Honor single player (crashed to the game's loading screen all garbled up).
I also tried AGP Fast writes on/off, tried all the AGP arperture sizes, and no luck. At this point I thought that it HAD to be my card, and that the Radeon drivers just plain sucked, as OpenGL games crashed, but I could play as long as I wanted in ALiens vs. Predator 2 (Direct3D game), with no problems whatsoever.
I exchanged my 9700 Pro for the $$ difference and a BFG Tech Asylum Ti4600 128MB AGP (same card as Visiontek's, since its made by the Visiontek refugees). Now, I am using the latest Dets and I lock up in Medal of Honor multiplayer after a few minutes, and the machine randomly restarts in about 1 minute in single player.
I am beyond frustrated at this point, all I want to do is have some crash free gaming! I am not sure what else I can do here. To start, my system specs are:
Epox 8K5A3+ (Hyperion 4in1's)
Athlon XP 1700+ @ stock
512MB Corsair XMS 3500 CAS2 @ PC-2700 speeds
Asylum Ti4600 128MB AGP (latest Dets, DX9.0)
80GB Seagate Barracuda HD (WinXP)
52x Creative CD-ROM
Built in Audio, Ethernet
In MSinfo I noticed that there are four things under IRQ 11- is this normal?
Cut & Pasted from MSinfo:
Resource Device Status
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 11 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 OK
IRQ 11 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 11 Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller OK
IRQ 11 VIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapter OK
IRQ 10 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 5 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 5 Multimedia Audio Controller OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 3 Communications Port (COM2) OK
IRQ 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
Any help or ideas as to why I am having this freakish crashing would save my day. I am incredibly frustrated and have already spent a lot of time trying to fix it. I even missed my first LAN game today because of my instability.
Many thanks and then some to anyone who can help me figure this out.
I figured that upgrading to XP would fix my problems, so I bought a copy of XP, and although its a lot more visually pleasing and faster than 98SE, I still have crashes and random restarts, although no more crashes giving me funky colors on the screen.
Under Win98SE and under XP I went through the 2.2, 2.5, and 3.0 Catalysts, with DirectX 8.0-9.0, and still had crashes in games- most notably in Medal of Honor, Spearhead, and Quake3. Under XP, I was able to play both Medal of Honor and Quake3 multiplayer for a while, but still had crashes/restarts in Medal of Honor, and could no longer play Medal of Honor single player (crashed to the game's loading screen all garbled up).
I also tried AGP Fast writes on/off, tried all the AGP arperture sizes, and no luck. At this point I thought that it HAD to be my card, and that the Radeon drivers just plain sucked, as OpenGL games crashed, but I could play as long as I wanted in ALiens vs. Predator 2 (Direct3D game), with no problems whatsoever.
I exchanged my 9700 Pro for the $$ difference and a BFG Tech Asylum Ti4600 128MB AGP (same card as Visiontek's, since its made by the Visiontek refugees). Now, I am using the latest Dets and I lock up in Medal of Honor multiplayer after a few minutes, and the machine randomly restarts in about 1 minute in single player.
I am beyond frustrated at this point, all I want to do is have some crash free gaming! I am not sure what else I can do here. To start, my system specs are:
Epox 8K5A3+ (Hyperion 4in1's)
Athlon XP 1700+ @ stock
512MB Corsair XMS 3500 CAS2 @ PC-2700 speeds
Asylum Ti4600 128MB AGP (latest Dets, DX9.0)
80GB Seagate Barracuda HD (WinXP)
52x Creative CD-ROM
Built in Audio, Ethernet
In MSinfo I noticed that there are four things under IRQ 11- is this normal?
Cut & Pasted from MSinfo:
Resource Device Status
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 11 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 OK
IRQ 11 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 11 Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller OK
IRQ 11 VIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapter OK
IRQ 10 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 5 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 5 Multimedia Audio Controller OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 3 Communications Port (COM2) OK
IRQ 12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
Any help or ideas as to why I am having this freakish crashing would save my day. I am incredibly frustrated and have already spent a lot of time trying to fix it. I even missed my first LAN game today because of my instability.
Many thanks and then some to anyone who can help me figure this out.