Asus 9800XT problem.

[Vormulac]

Hi all,

I posted this yesterday in a.c.p.mainboard.asus, so I apologise for
crossposting, but I only just found this group.

I have a Radeon 9800XT in my system and it seems to be crashing during
games. This happens at least once 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.

 

[Sleepy]

Hi all,

I have a Radeon 9800XT in my system and it seems to be crashing during
games. This happens at least once 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.

a GPU should run at a similar temperature to your CPU so the 40-50c
range is great - the 50-60c range is liveable and around 70c expect
problems.
Radeon XT cards had a function called overdrive for automatic overclocking
so I would disable that and run with the Case side panel removed in this hot
weather.
You could even try underclocking it to normal 9800Pro temperatures until the
heatwave is over.
Use something like Radclocker to do that.

 

[mhicaoidh]

Taking a moment's reflection, Vormulac mused:
|
| I posted this yesterday in a.c.p.mainboard.asus, so I apologise for
| crossposting, but I only just found this group.

It's only cross posting if you send the same message to two or more
groups. What you've done is simply post the message individually in two
different groups. ;-) No worries.

 

[Mick B.]

I would suspect the heatsink has come loose or the fan has stopped
working... check that before you replace the card.

 

[Reggie Hillier]

Do you have VPU Recovery disabled ? When I had my Asus 9800XT I always
disabled because of the lockups
and booting out to the desktop.

 

[johns]

Yep. That's a classic with the 9800. Go in to Smartgart
and set AGP to 4x and turn Fast Writes off. Note: this
will not hold until you've done it twice.

johns