R9700np and my monitor shuts down

H

Highlandish

my monitor, an LG-Flatron F700B (1048x768@75Hz), shuts down every time I run
a 3D program, particularly games, even 3D screensavers, it's less than a
year old and has run fine
for ages, but since I got an "evil commando 2 powercolor Radeon 9700
(128mb)" and used the catalyst 3.6/3.7 drivers on an XP-pro OS, my monitor
occasionally shuts down and wont turn back on. now it is common and happens
as soon as I start a game and I am forced to reboot whilst in the game
(sometimes ruining my save).

I don't think it is the monitor, although it runs very bright and black has
never been black but a dark shade of grey (it is like a light bulb shining
behind a black coloured piece of paper) but it is an otherwise very good
monitor as far as I know.

sys contains:
AMD XP 2800+ Barton
Win-XPpro/DX 9.0b
AGP8x ATI R9700np 128mbDDR/Cat3.7 {Internal DAC 400MHz}(0x4E45)
[BK-AMI VER008.004.008.000] (fastwrite off)
SB Live 5.1 (audio 9000) Dvr 5.12)
NF7-S NForce 2 MoBo (R2) (latest bios[18])
512 MB PC2700 ram Kingston
2x80gb Seagate HDD ATA100
Liteon DVDx16/Liteon CDRWx40

everything runs at factory standard and has not been overclocked.
 
R

Replicant

my monitor, an LG-Flatron F700B (1048x768@75Hz), shuts down every time I run
a 3D program, particularly games, even 3D screensavers, it's less than a
year old and has run fine
for ages, but since I got an "evil commando 2 powercolor Radeon 9700
(128mb)" and used the catalyst 3.6/3.7 drivers on an XP-pro OS, my monitor
occasionally shuts down and wont turn back on. now it is common and happens
as soon as I start a game and I am forced to reboot whilst in the game
(sometimes ruining my save).

I don't think it is the monitor, although it runs very bright and black has
never been black but a dark shade of grey (it is like a light bulb shining
behind a black coloured piece of paper) but it is an otherwise very good
monitor as far as I know.
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What refresh rates you running at? You have the correct monitor .inf
file installed?
 
H

Highlandish

Highlandish said:
my monitor, an LG-Flatron F700B (1048x768@75Hz), shuts down every
time I run a 3D program, particularly games, even 3D screensavers,
it's less than a year old and has run fine
for ages, but since I got an "evil commando 2 powercolor Radeon 9700
(128mb)" and used the catalyst 3.6/3.7 drivers on an XP-pro OS, my
monitor occasionally shuts down and wont turn back on. now it is
common and happens as soon as I start a game and I am forced to
reboot whilst in the game (sometimes ruining my save).

I don't think it is the monitor, although it runs very bright and
black has never been black but a dark shade of grey (it is like a
light bulb shining behind a black coloured piece of paper) but it is
an otherwise very good monitor as far as I know.

sys contains:
AMD XP 2800+ Barton
Win-XPpro/DX 9.0b
AGP8x ATI R9700np 128mbDDR/Cat3.7 {Internal DAC 400MHz}(0x4E45)
[BK-AMI VER008.004.008.000] (fastwrite off)
SB Live 5.1 (audio 9000) Dvr 5.12)
NF7-S NForce 2 MoBo (R2) (latest bios[18])
512 MB PC2700 ram Kingston
2x80gb Seagate HDD ATA100
Liteon DVDx16/Liteon CDRWx40

everything runs at factory standard and has not been overclocked.
Click to expand...

found out why, my NF7-S and powercolor 9700 card are incompatible at 8xAGP,
therefore any 3d "GAME" crashes. windows 3d screensavers and directx tests
come out fine though....
 
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