Hi all,

I know this isn't a motherboard problem, but I crave your indulgence.

I have a Radeon 9800XT in my system and it seems to be crashing during
games. This happens at least one per game during Counterstrike:Source, and
as often as 3 or 4 times per game in the Battlefield2 demo.
What happens is that the game suddenly locks and sits there for a few
seconds, then it drops to the desktop with an error message saying that the
graphics card has been reset as it stopped responding to instructions,
there is also the Ati Smartsave utility asking permission to send an error
report.
If I send the report or not, the game I crashed out of is still running and
clicking on it on the toolbar will launch it again right back to where I
was when I got kicked out!

I have just installed the latest version of SmartDoctor to check the
graphics card temps and while MDM5 is reporting a case temp of 35 degrees
C, Smartdoctor is report a GPU of 66 degrees - does this sound too hot?

Admittedly, it is the hottest day of the year here, but this happens during
winter too, so I don't know if this is temp related.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Thanks all,

Vormulac.

PS It has just done exactly the same thing as I have been typing the last
few words, so now it's crashing outside games too.

Vormulac wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know this isn't a motherboard problem, but I crave your indulgence.
>
> I have a Radeon 9800XT in my system and it seems to be crashing during
> games. This happens at least one per game during
> Counterstrike:Source, and as often as 3 or 4 times per game in the
> Battlefield2 demo.
> What happens is that the game suddenly locks and sits there for a few
> seconds, then it drops to the desktop with an error message saying
> that the graphics card has been reset as it stopped responding to
> instructions, there is also the Ati Smartsave utility asking
> permission to send an error report.
> If I send the report or not, the game I crashed out of is still
> running and clicking on it on the toolbar will launch it again right
> back to where I was when I got kicked out!
>
> I have just installed the latest version of SmartDoctor to check the
> graphics card temps and while MDM5 is reporting a case temp of 35
> degrees C, Smartdoctor is report a GPU of 66 degrees - does this
> sound too hot?
>
> Admittedly, it is the hottest day of the year here, but this happens
> during winter too, so I don't know if this is temp related.
>
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Vormulac.
>
> PS It has just done exactly the same thing as I have been typing the
> last few words, so now it's crashing outside games too.

Radeon 9800 = 450W Power supply and at least 2 extra case fans.
66° is too hot.

Clive

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:00:20 +0200, "Clive Lumb"
<clumb2@Gratuit_in_English.fr.invalid> wrote:

>Vormulac wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know this isn't a motherboard problem, but I crave your indulgence.
>>
>> I have a Radeon 9800XT in my system and it seems to be crashing during
>> games. This happens at least one per game during
>> Counterstrike:Source, and as often as 3 or 4 times per game in the
>> Battlefield2 demo.
>> What happens is that the game suddenly locks and sits there for a few
>> seconds, then it drops to the desktop with an error message saying
>> that the graphics card has been reset as it stopped responding to
>> instructions, there is also the Ati Smartsave utility asking
>> permission to send an error report.
>> If I send the report or not, the game I crashed out of is still
>> running and clicking on it on the toolbar will launch it again right
>> back to where I was when I got kicked out!
>>
>> I have just installed the latest version of SmartDoctor to check the
>> graphics card temps and while MDM5 is reporting a case temp of 35
>> degrees C, Smartdoctor is report a GPU of 66 degrees - does this
>> sound too hot?
>>
>> Admittedly, it is the hottest day of the year here, but this happens
>> during winter too, so I don't know if this is temp related.
>>
>> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
>>
>> Thanks all,
>>
>> Vormulac.
>>
>> PS It has just done exactly the same thing as I have been typing the
>> last few words, so now it's crashing outside games too.
>
>Radeon 9800 = 450W Power supply and at least 2 extra case fans.
>66° is too hot.
>
>Clive
>
You should try to play the game with the case open and see what
happen.

Also i suspect that it's a directx problem

I'm running a 9800pro from ati and i never had any problem on game
crashing, only with GTA san Andreas. and it happen one time, symptom
is computer freezing.

set your asus card at default detail and see.


a+

Thank you for your suggestions, I will see if there are any directx errors
being logged and I will have to have a serious look at my cooling situation
- it should be pretty good, but I'm sure there's always room for
improvement!

Thanks again.