Visiontek 9200 SE problems

[Stephen Parnicky]

I just got this card, it crashed my computer so many times so far. I was
wondering why, so I installed Radeon Tweak, and there the problem was, it
was overclocked to 250 not the 200 that it was supposed to. I tried to
install drivers that came with the card, and no luck at all did it fix the
overclocked core. Radeon Tweak only allows me to underclock this value to
225. It still crashes after that. Everything from 3DMark03, 3DMark 2001
SE, or any game that uses the 3d graphics. Please help me out on a way to
fix this. Thank you in advance.

 

[Stephen Parnicky]

Ok I got the card underclocked correctly to 200, but it still crashes my PC
when I run any 3d apps. Anyone, please help.

 

[weatherlight]

try to disable fastwrites if it is enabled in your bios
helped me
peter

 

[Stephen Parnicky]

fastwrite is disabled. Still crashes for me. I am getting fed up with this
card.

 

[patrickp]

My power supply should be fine, I am using a 300 watt PS. I was using Win
2000, I tried it on my friends PC and it ran fine under WinXP, so I am
reinstalling onto a different OS. If it doesnt work I will be selling the
card for 50-60 dollars, so all isnt bad, at least I make some of my money
back.

There's a lot of disagreement on this, but I'd say a good brand name 300W
PSU might be adequate (just) for the average modern system, but generic 300W
PSUs are usually pushing the envelope and sometimes quite inadequate. Most
people would agree (I know not all do) that a 350W is really a minimum
requirement, and certainly it's one of those situations where it's
preferable and prudent to be comfortably over spec.

I'd say if your PSU isn't something like Antec or Enermax, at 300W I'd think
about replacing it.

Just my tuppenceworth, patrickp

 

[Stephen Parnicky]

I dont have that many things in my PC that consume a lot of energy, the most
is obviously the videocard. I do have an Antec power supply. My friends
power supply was also the same as mine. I tried it out on Win XP and I do
still get the problems. Although I think I traced the problem to Direct X
9.0b. I tried running the Direct3D test in DXDIAG. And it crashes
immediately. I do know that there were other problems with the 9000 series
with DX9.0b with the video in/out features on some pro cards. I will try
downgrading to DX9, and if that doesnt help DX8.1, Do you know wether I can
use the Cat 3.6 drivers with DX8.1? I thank you for all the replies on the
help.

 

[Stephen Parnicky]

Well it was not DX's fault. I dont really know why it is messing up. I
think it has to do with other hardware and conflicts. I will upgrade my PC
in a week or 2. I am going to get an Athlon XP 2200 with 256 MB of RAM to
start off. Hopefully that will allow me to play Half Life 2 when it comes
out.

 

[Gnasher]

My power supply should be fine, I am using a 300 watt PS.

That's not adequate. I had a 350w PSU and it wasn't even adequate. Had
to put in a 400w Antec to stop lockups.

 

[Stephen Parnicky]

It wasnt the power supply, the Asus P2B motherboard was incompatible. The
video card works fine. God I am glad I had my old Tekram laying around.

 

[Chimera]

Im using Cat 3.6 with DX8.1 atm. Have been for a couple of days, no
problems so far