ATI AIW 9800 Pro newbie

[wym_ca]

This card is absolutely driving me nuts! I have had issues with it
since I first bought it in August.

When I first bought it, I installed from the CD (I can't remember what
version) and the sound would go off or go all wonky when I change the
TV channel. I upgrade to MMC 8.7 with the drivers and I started
getting the random shut downs. I upgraded the drivers again 3.9 (?)
in November and hurray no more shut down!

Everything was working fine until I got a new HD for Xmas so I have a
clean machine and now my computer is shutting down again on me
randomly. My setup: P4 2.4 Ghz 800 fsb, ASUS P4C800-DX-E, 1 gig RAM
DDR 3200, WD 160 Gig, 300W PSU, Audigy 2, an unplugged Dlink 538 TX
card (using the onboard 3COM). I'm on Win XP SP1, all updates. I
have all updates from ATI as well.

I have read that this card might have issues with a hyperthreading
cpu, XP, 300W PSU, and now the Cat 3.10 drivers might be screwed.
Cripes, that's my setup! The shut downs happened last night, the same
time I installed some video codecs and video editing programs. I
believe my machine was working fine for 2 days prior with MMC 8.8 and
Cat 3.10 but it might just be because I haven't been on my machine
that much during the holidays. I have tried uninstalling the codecs
and vid programs and also reinstalling MMC and the drivers hoping
perhaps to reinstall some overwritten files.

What else can I do? I can't believe the rave reviews of this card
when MMC always crashes when I exit out of programs like File Player,
etc. I also lose my mouse on Gemstar guide (okay, not ATI's fault).
Maybe I just don't know how to use the card properly but I'm extremely
pissed off at shelling out $600 CDN and receiving all this hassle.
I'm absolutely at my wits end with this crappy software.

 

[NDF]

This card is absolutely driving me nuts! I have had issues with it
since I first bought it in August.

When I first bought it, I installed from the CD (I can't remember what
version) and the sound would go off or go all wonky when I change the
TV channel. I upgrade to MMC 8.7 with the drivers and I started
getting the random shut downs. I upgraded the drivers again 3.9 (?)
in November and hurray no more shut down!

Everything was working fine until I got a new HD for Xmas so I have a
clean machine and now my computer is shutting down again on me
randomly. My setup: P4 2.4 Ghz 800 fsb, ASUS P4C800-DX-E, 1 gig RAM
DDR 3200, WD 160 Gig, 300W PSU, Audigy 2, an unplugged Dlink 538 TX
card (using the onboard 3COM). I'm on Win XP SP1, all updates. I
have all updates from ATI as well.

I have read that this card might have issues with a hyperthreading
cpu, XP, 300W PSU, and now the Cat 3.10 drivers might be screwed.
Cripes, that's my setup! The shut downs happened last night, the same
time I installed some video codecs and video editing programs. I
believe my machine was working fine for 2 days prior with MMC 8.8 and
Cat 3.10 but it might just be because I haven't been on my machine
that much during the holidays. I have tried uninstalling the codecs
and vid programs and also reinstalling MMC and the drivers hoping
perhaps to reinstall some overwritten files.

What else can I do? I can't believe the rave reviews of this card
when MMC always crashes when I exit out of programs like File Player,
etc. I also lose my mouse on Gemstar guide (okay, not ATI's fault).
Maybe I just don't know how to use the card properly but I'm extremely
pissed off at shelling out $600 CDN and receiving all this hassle.
I'm absolutely at my wits end with this crappy software.

You need a more powerfull power supply if you expect all that to work, 300W
just doesn't cut it these days.

 

[Tim]

Hi there,

I have the same board, memory, 3.2 gig processor, 3 SATA drives, Pioneer 106
and Connect AIW 9800 pro with a Enermax 450 PSU with the original Connect
drivers using Adobe Premier Pro and no such problems so it could be that
your PSU is just not suitable.

Hope this is of some help, Tim.

 

[wym_ca]

You need a more powerfull power supply if you expect all that to work, 300W
just doesn't cut it these days.

If it's as simple as a power supply, then I'll get it. I just don't
want to shell out another $100 for something I don't need. Like I
said, I finally had it working pretty stable in my other HD prior to
updating to Cat 3.10 and MMC 8.8. And with the drivers on the CD, I
never had shut down issues other than the sound problem while changing
channels. It's not like I'm abusing it either. I'm just surfing and
have the TV in the background for cripes sakes! Argh, I might just
try going back to MMC 8.7 and the drivers they release in November. I
hope I can clean out all the mess without reinstalling the OS.

!@#$#!$

 

[Tim]

Hi there,

I upgraded to later drivers and encountered problems and found that only a
format and reinstall worked so I'd try a format reinstall first and see if
that works although I do think you need a more powerful PSU.

Tim.

 

[KeyBored]

Also try disabling "Fast Writes" in display/settings/advanced/smartgart. I
have same card, and the TV Player would crash before I disabled Fast Writes.
I also had problems with capturing before I disabled Fast Writes.

Steve

 

[rms]

Also try disabling "Fast Writes"

Do as the man says, and also increase AGP voltage in bios by one notch,
and set AGP speed to 4x.

rms

 

[Mike Moseng]

If it's as simple as a power supply, then I'll get it. I just don't
want to shell out another $100 for something I don't need. Like I
said, I finally had it working pretty stable in my other HD prior to
updating to Cat 3.10 and MMC 8.8. And with the drivers on the CD, I
never had shut down issues other than the sound problem while changing
channels. It's not like I'm abusing it either. I'm just surfing and
have the TV in the background for cripes sakes! Argh, I might just
try going back to MMC 8.7 and the drivers they release in November. I
hope I can clean out all the mess without reinstalling the OS.

!@#$#!$

So...what did you do... and how did it go? BTW I vote for a new PSU!