Fixed my video card problem!!!

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I posted about a week ago talking about my Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb. I asked:

"I used to have a Radeon 9000 Pro on my 2.4 Ghz 512mb pc2700 computer. Most
of the games ran fine until one day all the games just began crashing after a
few minutes of playing. I updated everything. It still happened. Then my
brother installed SP 1 and everything stopped. I was overjoyed. Then I
bought a Radeon 9800 Pro 256. After I installed it, all the games had the
same problems again. Once again I updated everything except for SP 2. I am
going to download that. But just in case that doesn't work, can you guys
offer a little help?"

.....you guys said I should update my drivers and lower my hardware settings
in the control panel, and take off the restart after crash so I could check
the event viewer and see where the problem was. Nothing worked. Someone
even suggested I didn't have a powerful enough Power Supply but I had a 420
watt p s. Then I did a little fiddling of my own and found out that in the
system BIOS, there was an option that said Set memory read and it was set to
FAST, I put it to NORMAL and now my computer works fine. Tinkering with the
BIOS is risky but it can also solve quite a few unsolvable problems. And
save money because I almost went out to buy a new motherboard and memory.

 

[Nick Kritselis [MS]]

Sherman,

It good to hear that you were able to resolve your problem, but I wanted to
also say "Thank You" for coming back and posting your solution for other
newsgroup readers to see.

Please feel free to post again if you have any other issues.