The Sapphire radeon 9600XT reboot problem

[James Cleeve]

Well I've been stung too. Have waded through all posts (here and on
www.sapphiretech.com) relating to this & tried all the suggestions and
I still can't get my 9600XT fireblade card to work reliably on my ASUS
A7V8X motherboard (get continual reboots at random times under windows
xp). I don't think it's limited to this asus via 400 chipset board
though as have seen posts of people with problems on MSI Nforce2
boards as well so I'm reluctant to buy an Nforce board just to have
the same problem.

So my question is this, can some people who have the 9600XT fireblade
working fine please reply to this post and tell me what mainboard you
have? I haven't seen any posts of people with gigabyte nforce2 boards
having problems so was wondering if this is the way to go?

Or any other info relating to how people have solved the issues would
be most welcome.

Thanks

James

 

[Tim W.]

Well I've been stung too. Have waded through all posts (here and on
www.sapphiretech.com) relating to this & tried all the suggestions and
I still can't get my 9600XT fireblade card to work reliably on my ASUS
A7V8X motherboard (get continual reboots at random times under windows
xp). I don't think it's limited to this asus via 400 chipset board
though as have seen posts of people with problems on MSI Nforce2
boards as well so I'm reluctant to buy an Nforce board just to have
the same problem.

So my question is this, can some people who have the 9600XT fireblade
working fine please reply to this post and tell me what mainboard you
have? I haven't seen any posts of people with gigabyte nforce2 boards
having problems so was wondering if this is the way to go?

Or any other info relating to how people have solved the issues would
be most welcome.

Thanks

James

I have been having random reboots with my system. I downloaded and
ran DocMemory from www.simmtest.com and found that my 512MB DDR RAM
stick has a bad spot at 463MB, high enough up that the computer has to
be very busy to get there. Check your RAM, it's free!

Good Luck,
Enjoy,

TLW

 

[Glenn]

I recently had a computer in with a new 9600xt card that was rebooting
randomly. The MSI motherboard was supposed to be 8x AGP - as is the 9600xt,
but when I started investigating I found that the motherboard was not
capable of providing 0.8v (required for 8x AGP). The AGP voltage was set to
'auto' in the BIOS and defaulted to 1.5 volts everytime. I then started
looking at dropping the AGP rate down to 4x (which does run on 1.5v). The
BIOS setting was not available, so I made the change with the ATI SmartGart
settings in the Display control panel.

I spoke to the owner earlier today and he informs me that it hasn't crashed
all weekend. In terms of performance, the difference between 4x and 8x AGP
is neglible. I benchmarked the PC with 3D Mark2001 SE before I gave it back
(XP2600+, 512Mb PC2700, Sapphire 9600XT 256Mb) and it scored somewhere
around 11600 without any tweaking.

Glenn

 

[James Cleeve]

Fantastic,thanks for your response Glenn, I switched the AGP speed
down to 4x in the BIOS and in smartgart and my problems were solved!
Have tested it with three games so far and no problems.

Am a happy man!

cheers

James

 

[Glenn]

Happy to be of service!

Glenn

Fantastic,thanks for your response Glenn, I switched the AGP speed
down to 4x in the BIOS and in smartgart and my problems were solved!
Have tested it with three games so far and no problems.

Am a happy man!

cheers

James

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