ASUS 9600XT 128Mb & ASUS A8V DELUXE

[Chris]

I have had the Asus 9600 video card since Sept running on a Gigabyte
board and it has been fine (except for crappy monitoring software),I
recently got a ASUS A8V board and AMD 3000 CPU.
It works fine except occasionally,it could be 2mins or up to 30+mins the
monitor blanks out after a minute or so computer reboots.
initially I thought it was a RAM issue but no tried other RAM -no go
Swopped out power supply,hard drive tried disconnected everything, did a
clean install of windows on spare hard drive.Still same thing it will
sit for hours with no problem it only seems to happen when using system.
I came to conclusion it must be motherboard took it back and exchanged
it,but same thing happened.
So I borrowed an AGP card from friend and lo and behold problem went away.
Called Asus again and they said RMA card which I did and they sent it
back today. THING STILL DROPS OUT!!!!
The form they sent with it has "works for 5-10 mins and dies"
This is quite inadequate explaination as they probably booted it up and
left it came back and thought oh no problem here. I sent FULL and
complete detailsof problem.
I will be calling them again this morning,but if anyone has a suggestion
or solution to this I would appreciate it

 

[JasonB]

I have had the Asus 9600 video card since Sept running on a Gigabyte
board and it has been fine (except for crappy monitoring software),I
recently got a ASUS A8V board and AMD 3000 CPU.
It works fine except occasionally,it could be 2mins or up to 30+mins the
monitor blanks out after a minute or so computer reboots.

I have been battling with just this problem with my setup for the past
two months. I've done so many rebuilds of XP just to discount possible
conflicts with drivers, BIOS settings and hardware.

My setup originally was running on an ABIT KV8-MAX3 board with an AMD
Athlon64 2800+ (754), 2 sticks of Geil Ultra Series DDR400 RAM, one 80GB
Maxtor ATA drive and one 160GB Samsung SATA drive. The video card is an
Asus Radeon 9600xt/td.

In the course of trouble shooting the problem I tried swapping the
drives around as originally the SATA drive was the primary boot drive
with the Maxtor the secondary drive. That didn't work though and in
reality, it was driving me nuts. Some days it would work all day
without a problem and others it would blank or reboot 4-5 times within
10 minutes of switching on.

I decided last week to replace the motherboard and order a new drive as
a system drive. So now I'm running with an Asus KBN-E Deluxe board and
have a 36GB WD Raptor SATA drive. Have tested the system with Prime95,
Memtest and 3DMark03 and everything passed muster each time I ran a test.

Basically since changing the motherboard (I don't think changing the
drive had much to do with it, I just wanted a faster boot drive), the
system has been rock solid.

Just as a closing note, I had sent my PC into a local repair shop for
them to have a look at, they had the thing for a whole two weeks and
couldn't find the source of the problem. Cost me £70 for a couple of
hours investigation, when it still happened after they'd looked at it, I
figured I'd be better off spending the money on replacing hardware
rather then pay someone else to tell me what I was beginning to suspect.

 

[Chris]

I have been battling with just this problem with my setup for the past
two months. I've done so many rebuilds of XP just to discount possible
conflicts with drivers, BIOS settings and hardware.

My setup originally was running on an ABIT KV8-MAX3 board with an AMD
Athlon64 2800+ (754), 2 sticks of Geil Ultra Series DDR400 RAM, one 80GB
Maxtor ATA drive and one 160GB Samsung SATA drive. The video card is an
Asus Radeon 9600xt/td.

In the course of trouble shooting the problem I tried swapping the
drives around as originally the SATA drive was the primary boot drive
with the Maxtor the secondary drive. That didn't work though and in
reality, it was driving me nuts. Some days it would work all day
without a problem and others it would blank or reboot 4-5 times within
10 minutes of switching on.

I decided last week to replace the motherboard and order a new drive as
a system drive. So now I'm running with an Asus KBN-E Deluxe board and
have a 36GB WD Raptor SATA drive. Have tested the system with Prime95,
Memtest and 3DMark03 and everything passed muster each time I ran a test.

Basically since changing the motherboard (I don't think changing the
drive had much to do with it, I just wanted a faster boot drive), the
system has been rock solid.

Just as a closing note, I had sent my PC into a local repair shop for
them to have a look at, they had the thing for a whole two weeks and
couldn't find the source of the problem. Cost me £70 for a couple of
hours investigation, when it still happened after they'd looked at it, I
figured I'd be better off spending the money on replacing hardware
rather then pay someone else to tell me what I was beginning to suspect.

Well I have tried swopping board granted for another asus but same
problem occurs

 

[JasonB]

Well I have tried swopping board granted for another asus but same
problem occurs

I found out last week from the computer guy that I took my system to
that Via boards, particularly the Athlon64 Via boards are well known for
incompatabilities with ATI cards.

While I can't state categorically that this is the case, and you'll no
doubt find others on these NG's that will argue otherwise, swapping the
motherboard from a Via based board to an nForce3 250 based board worked
for me.

You mentioned you have already tried swapping out the mainboard, was it
also a Via based board or nForce3 250 based?

One other thing as well, interestingly I had at various times installed
Windows XP64 beta and Mandrake Linux 10.1 both of which worked
flawlessly on the Via board. The only conclusion I can draw from that
was that there was an incompatibility in the drivers I was using for
WinXP(32bit). I'm buggered if I'm going to spend my time finding out
where though, spending another £70 on the Asus K8N-E board has been,
IMO, the best money I've spent in a while.

Sorry I can't be more help!