I'm currently running the following system.
Athlon XP 2600 (1.9ghz)
512 Corsair 2700 DDR ram
Biostar mobo, cant remember model - nforce2
Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro
(nothing overclocked)
Here's a ss of what happends
http://img186.echo.cx/my.php?image=gw0325xp.jpg
I get that randomly and a simple restart fixes, but is problem and a very annoying one.
After it happends, i have touched the heatsink which happends to be burning hot, that leads me to believe it might just be some kind of overheating problem.
But how is that possible when i have proper air flow in the case?
I mostly only play Counter Strike (old hl engine) and Guild Wars, so those are the only 2 games it has happended to.
Now dont quote me on this, but after a few months of radeon 9700 pro being out, i remember reading on rage3d boards people having fan failures on Gigabyte brand radeons.
Now i dont know if that's the case, i surely see the fan spinning unless the fan isnt providing the required airflow.
Another thing is that the system doesnt crash or anything, they game still runs and in a sense "playable" since you can kinda sense whats going on thru all those lines..
I also wanna add that i only had the 9700 pro installed for the last few days, before that it was on my "old/er" machine(sig) and i never had such problem with the 9600 xt(above spec) on this machine nor the 9700 on the old machine.
Athlon XP 2600 (1.9ghz)
512 Corsair 2700 DDR ram
Biostar mobo, cant remember model - nforce2
Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro
(nothing overclocked)
Here's a ss of what happends
http://img186.echo.cx/my.php?image=gw0325xp.jpg
I get that randomly and a simple restart fixes, but is problem and a very annoying one.
After it happends, i have touched the heatsink which happends to be burning hot, that leads me to believe it might just be some kind of overheating problem.
But how is that possible when i have proper air flow in the case?
I mostly only play Counter Strike (old hl engine) and Guild Wars, so those are the only 2 games it has happended to.
Now dont quote me on this, but after a few months of radeon 9700 pro being out, i remember reading on rage3d boards people having fan failures on Gigabyte brand radeons.
Now i dont know if that's the case, i surely see the fan spinning unless the fan isnt providing the required airflow.
Another thing is that the system doesnt crash or anything, they game still runs and in a sense "playable" since you can kinda sense whats going on thru all those lines..
I also wanna add that i only had the 9700 pro installed for the last few days, before that it was on my "old/er" machine(sig) and i never had such problem with the 9600 xt(above spec) on this machine nor the 9700 on the old machine.
