Errors in most games with Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb

[Daryl White]

Hi there. I've just put together a system with the components listed
below. I get periodic crashes in several games, notables being
Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, and Everquest. I
also see small green pixels when playing back videos in Windows Media
Player, or in game cinematics. Any suggestions as to what to look at
would be appreciated. In trying to diagnose the problem i've done the
following already:

Latest Catalyst ATI Drivers, latest Intel ICH drivers, latest sound,
lan, Sata drivers.

System specs:

Intel P4 3.0 ghz 800 mhz bus
MSI Neo FIS2R i-875 motherboard
1gb (2x512mb) OCZ PC3500 gold ram
ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128mb
Seagate 120gb SATA hard drive
Samsung SM-352 DVD/CD-RW combo drive
onboard Soundmax Audio
onboard intel GB lan

I haven't changed any of the default settings for the bios, and am
running bios version 1.9.

Thanks in advance,

Daryl

 

[JAD]

crashes to desktop? locks up and the 3 fingered salute is the only
way out? Your running XP? Latest chipset drivers?
Any conflicts in device manager? DMA enabled on the drives? or
'application enhancer' (or whatever Intel calls it) that takes the
place of it? Direct x version? have you run diag for directx?

 

[Gweedar]

crashes to desktop? locks up and the 3 fingered salute is the only
way out? Your running XP? Latest chipset drivers?
Any conflicts in device manager? DMA enabled on the drives? or
'application enhancer' (or whatever Intel calls it) that takes the
place of it? Direct x version? have you run diag for directx?

It exits the application. (i.e. crashes to desktop.)
OS is Windows XP SP1
Latest chipset drivers, sata drivers, DMA is ON, cannot use
application accelerator with my chipset I875.
DirectX is 9.0b downloaded and installed yesterday
Video driver is ATI Catalyst 4.3, downloaded and installed yesterday.
DXDiag and msinfo don't suggest anything wrong. It passes all
Direct3D and OGL tests.

I've seen some people recommending upping my AGP voltage a notch or
two. May try that tonight when i get home. Either that or
substituting my Geforce3 card in to see if i still get issues.

Daryl

 

[DaveW]

Your power supply unit may be underpowered/poor quality.

 

[Ben Pope]

It exits the application. (i.e. crashes to desktop.)

The green pixels suggest a problem with the alpha channel, but thats usually
the codec, not the drivers/hardware.

Crashing to the desktop suggests a problem with the drivers/some other
software. It's unlikely to be a hardware issue.

OS is Windows XP SP1
Latest chipset drivers, sata drivers, DMA is ON, cannot use
application accelerator with my chipset I875.
DirectX is 9.0b downloaded and installed yesterday
Video driver is ATI Catalyst 4.3, downloaded and installed yesterday.
DXDiag and msinfo don't suggest anything wrong. It passes all
Direct3D and OGL tests.

I've seen some people recommending upping my AGP voltage a notch or
two. May try that tonight when i get home. Either that or
substituting my Geforce3 card in to see if i still get issues.

Seems weird, not usre what to suggest, but if you do reinstall the GeForce,
that will certainly throw some light on the subject. I suggest you use
Cat-uninstaller just prior to swapping the cards, and then ensuring you
clean out the Dets properly before switching back.

I'd also be tempted to update/change your video codecs. I had loads of
problems with green pixels on moving high contrast edges (if I recall) in
videos - it was the codec at fault.

Ben

 

[Dark Avenger]

Hi there. I've just put together a system with the components listed
below. I get periodic crashes in several games, notables being
Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, and Everquest. I
also see small green pixels when playing back videos in Windows Media
Player, or in game cinematics. Any suggestions as to what to look at
would be appreciated. In trying to diagnose the problem i've done the
following already:

Latest Catalyst ATI Drivers, latest Intel ICH drivers, latest sound,
lan, Sata drivers.

System specs:

Intel P4 3.0 ghz 800 mhz bus
MSI Neo FIS2R i-875 motherboard
1gb (2x512mb) OCZ PC3500 gold ram
ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128mb
Seagate 120gb SATA hard drive
Samsung SM-352 DVD/CD-RW combo drive
onboard Soundmax Audio
onboard intel GB lan

I haven't changed any of the default settings for the bios, and am
running bios version 1.9.

Thanks in advance,

Daryl

Can be overheating! Is definitly possible..the card slowly warms up
and after a few minutes..crash!

 

[Gweedar]

I'm not sure i've fixed it for good, but i did the following last
night:

Purchased an Antec TruePower 430W power supply and installed it. No
change
Switched video cards with a Geforce3 Ti200 i had in another PC. Still
crashed

Got up this morning, and read my MB documentation again. I have 2 OCZ
512 MB PC3500 sticks of Dual Channel ram with Copper heat spreaders,
and i had put them BOTH on channel 1 (in slots 1 and 2). Moving the
2nd DIMM to slot 3, so that 1 and 3 were populated and it was truly
running in Dual Channel, got rid of the blocky pixels in the graphics,
and i'll know by tonight whether it fixed the Everquest problems as
well. Whoops. Its amazing what a good nights sleep can do.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Daryl

 

[Ed Forsythe]

Congrats - When in doubt it always helps to RTFM ;-)