bad video card or other problem?

[Guest]

Hi everyone,
Well I wrote a few posts ago about purchasing a Sapphire X80 GTO 256 agp
video card. benchmarks great and plays BF2 and Doom3 awesome, but I do have
one situation....
I'm getting between 45 and 80 fps depending on whats going on on screen.
But, out of the blue, for some unknown reason, It'll drop to 10-15 fps. Then
go back and forth, no matter whats being drawn, or going on on screen.....
Is this a voltage issue? <should I try changing my plug?> or bad card?
According to Trixx my VPU is 44 degrees I assume C. I dont overclock the
card <no need to> Any ideas? I think I"ll try putting the card on another
rail and see what happens first.


--
{SFU} Jackyl

MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR
Athlon XP2500 @ 200mhz fsb
ATI Radeon X800 GTO 256
1gb Geil DDR 3200 DC

 

[The Primate]

AP

Hi everyone,
Well I wrote a few posts ago about purchasing a Sapphire X80 GTO 256 agp
video card. benchmarks great and plays BF2 and Doom3 awesome, but I do
have one situation....
I'm getting between 45 and 80 fps depending on whats going on on screen.
But, out of the blue, for some unknown reason, It'll drop to 10-15 fps.
Then go back and forth, no matter whats being drawn, or going on on
screen.....
Is this a voltage issue? <should I try changing my plug?> or bad card?
According to Trixx my VPU is 44 degrees I assume C. I dont overclock the
card <no need to> Any ideas? I think I"ll try putting the card on another
rail and see what happens first.


--
{SFU} Jackyl

MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR
Athlon XP2500 @ 200mhz fsb
ATI Radeon X800 GTO 256
1gb Geil DDR 3200 DC

You probably already checked this but do you have anything running in the
background that suddenly saps cpu cycles?

 

[Guest]

AP

You probably already checked this but do you have anything running in the
background that suddenly saps cpu cycles?

I've used the task manager and closed down all of my back ground tasks...
however that pesky little msmsgs keeps popping back even though its
dissabled in services. And I've got the card on a rail by itself, which,
doesn't neccisarily mean that THAT rail is good, ya know?

 

[Acid8000]

I've used the task manager and closed down all of my back ground tasks...
however that pesky little msmsgs keeps popping back even though its
dissabled in services. And I've got the card on a rail by itself, which,
doesn't neccisarily mean that THAT rail is good, ya know?

Are you running Norton Anti Virus? Sometimes it'll call Windows
Messenger to open up at set intervals if you don't disable the messenger
virus scanner. I used to have this problem when I had Norton on my
system until I disabled it.

Hope this solves your problem, good luck.