I have been having a strange problem ever since I replaced my ol
geforce 5200 with the radeon 9600. When I am playing a game...and no
all games do it...sometimes the display turns black and the monitor'
LED turns amber. I cannot due anything and have to restart. I am no
assuming its a temp problem since CPU does not exceed 55 degree
celcius even when heavily in use. Apart from that I have adequat
cooling directly on the video card and inside the case. In the even
viewer the only occurance at the same time of the fault is thi
entry

The time provider NtpClient is configured to acquire time from one o
more time sources, however none of the sources are currentl
accessible. No attempt to contact a source will be made for 1
minutes. NtpClient has no source of accurate time.

Also I have up yo date drivers, directX, virus free for sure and load
of RAM..1.2GB DDR 400

Can anyone give me some tips on how I could find out the source o
this saga??? any software in particular? please HELP ME! even a fres
format and installation of XP was not enough to get rid of this

Overheating the GPU/Memory on video card?

Maybe use atitools to check temp?


"ramon82" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:nSSLf.134569$(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have been having a strange problem ever since I replaced my old
> geforce 5200 with the radeon 9600. When I am playing a game...and not
> all games do it...sometimes the display turns black and the monitor's
> LED turns amber. I cannot due anything and have to restart. I am not
> assuming its a temp problem since CPU does not exceed 55 degrees
> celcius even when heavily in use. Apart from that I have adequate
> cooling directly on the video card and inside the case. In the event
> viewer the only occurance at the same time of the fault is this
> entry:
>
> The time provider NtpClient is configured to acquire time from one or
> more time sources, however none of the sources are currently
> accessible. No attempt to contact a source will be made for 14
> minutes. NtpClient has no source of accurate time.
>
> Also I have up yo date drivers, directX, virus free for sure and loads
> of RAM..1.2GB DDR 400.
>
>
> Can anyone give me some tips on how I could find out the source of
> this saga??? any software in particular? please HELP ME! even a fresh
> format and installation of XP was not enough to get rid of this.
>

"ramon82" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:nSSLf.134569$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have been having a strange problem ever since I replaced my old
> geforce 5200 with the radeon 9600. When I am playing a game...and not
> all games do it...sometimes the display turns black and the monitor's
> LED turns amber. I cannot due anything and have to restart. I am not
> assuming its a temp problem since CPU does not exceed 55 degrees
> celcius even when heavily in use. Apart from that I have adequate
> cooling directly on the video card and inside the case. In the event
> viewer the only occurance at the same time of the fault is this
> entry:

I recently returned an ATI x850 Pro for this problem. It did this at random
in everything: games, browsers, Outlook, whatever. It happened with multiple
driver versions. I opened the case and pointed a fan at the card and it
continued to black-out, so I doubt it was a temperature issue.

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:19:43 -0500, "Tom Carman"
<Tom(underscore)Carman at compuserve dot com> wrote:

>"ramon82" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:nSSLf.134569$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I have been having a strange problem ever since I replaced my old
>> geforce 5200 with the radeon 9600. When I am playing a game...and not
>> all games do it...sometimes the display turns black and the monitor's
>> LED turns amber. I cannot due anything and have to restart. I am not
>> assuming its a temp problem since CPU does not exceed 55 degrees
>> celcius even when heavily in use. Apart from that I have adequate
>> cooling directly on the video card and inside the case. In the event
>> viewer the only occurance at the same time of the fault is this
>> entry:
>
>I recently returned an ATI x850 Pro for this problem. It did this at random
>in everything: games, browsers, Outlook, whatever. It happened with multiple
>driver versions. I opened the case and pointed a fan at the card and it
>continued to black-out, so I doubt it was a temperature issue.
>
I had same problem as above with a AIW9800, turned off fast writes in
display properties_advanced_smartgart and all is well. My problem
started after updating Catalyst that apparently turned fast writes on
by default.

RAH

"RAH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:19:43 -0500, "Tom Carman"
> <Tom(underscore)Carman at compuserve dot com> wrote:
>
> >I recently returned an ATI x850 Pro for this problem. It did this at
random
> >in everything: games, browsers, Outlook, whatever. It happened with
multiple
> >driver versions. I opened the case and pointed a fan at the card and it
> >continued to black-out, so I doubt it was a temperature issue.
> >
> I had same problem as above with a AIW9800, turned off fast writes in
> display properties_advanced_smartgart and all is well. My problem
> started after updating Catalyst that apparently turned fast writes on
> by default.
>
> RAH

Oh, I tried everything. Fast writes on and off. Control Panel. Catalyst
Control Center. Omega drivers and their controls. The only thing I didn't do
was go out and drop a load of cash on a new power supply (it was more than
adequate for my system's needs, and everthing else was stable). I decided it
must be a hardware issue on the board, and returned it to CompUSA because my
21 day return window was closing.