Radeon 9600XT and VPU recover errors

[OverTheHill]

I recently swapped out my NVIDIA based video card for a Radeon 9600XT
for the HDTV support with optional dongle (which seems to work OK),
but......

When running any application that requires graphics acceleration I often
get VPU recover errors. ATI support has done little other than send me a
long list of things to check (all of which I have already accomplished).

My system

AMD VT8366-8235 Motherboard with VT8366/KT333 chipset (AGP4x support)
AMD 1800+ processor
Phoenix Award BIOS version 6.0
1 Gig RAM
DirectX 9.c

Others with a similar issue? Any solutions?
Thanks

 

[maggot]

I recently swapped out my NVIDIA based video card for a Radeon 9600XT
for the HDTV support with optional dongle (which seems to work OK),
but......

When running any application that requires graphics acceleration I often
get VPU recover errors. ATI support has done little other than send me a
long list of things to check (all of which I have already accomplished).

My system

AMD VT8366-8235 Motherboard with VT8366/KT333 chipset (AGP4x support)
AMD 1800+ processor
Phoenix Award BIOS version 6.0
1 Gig RAM
DirectX 9.c

Others with a similar issue? Any solutions?
Thanks

What's your powersupply?

 

[Sleepy]

I recently swapped out my NVIDIA based video card for a Radeon 9600XT
for the HDTV support with optional dongle (which seems to work OK),
but......

When running any application that requires graphics acceleration I often
get VPU recover errors. ATI support has done little other than send me a
long list of things to check (all of which I have already accomplished).

My system

AMD VT8366-8235 Motherboard with VT8366/KT333 chipset (AGP4x support)
AMD 1800+ processor
Phoenix Award BIOS version 6.0
1 Gig RAM
DirectX 9.c

Others with a similar issue? Any solutions?
Thanks

Have you tried disabling VPU recover ?

 

[Navid]

I recently swapped out my NVIDIA based video card for a Radeon 9600XT
for the HDTV support with optional dongle (which seems to work OK),
but......

When running any application that requires graphics acceleration I often
get VPU recover errors. ATI support has done little other than send me a
long list of things to check (all of which I have already accomplished).

My system

AMD VT8366-8235 Motherboard with VT8366/KT333 chipset (AGP4x support)
AMD 1800+ processor
Phoenix Award BIOS version 6.0
1 Gig RAM
DirectX 9.c

Others with a similar issue? Any solutions?
Thanks

I have a 9600 pro and I get VPU recover only if I overclock too much.
What is your case temperature right after you get a VPU recover?
You can use MBM5 and set it up to log temperatures and voltages in a text
file.
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

After a VPU recover, open the log file and look at the temperatures and
voltages.
What was the exact voltage on your 12.00V rail right before the crash?
What were the CPU and case temperatures right before the crash?

 

[johns]

I had exactly the same problem, until I did a careful
and clean install of Catalyst driver 4.5 and then 4.6.
I'm fairly sure you must have remnants of the nVidia
drivers still floating around somewhere. You absolutely
have to clean those driver remnants from your system
.... registry, hard drive, possibly even the games themselves which might
have embedded something
about the nVidia card in them ?? Now, I can't get
my 9600XT to crash. It is rock solid.

johns

 

[OverTheHill]

Yes, I have tried disabling VPU recover as well as enabling and
disabling AGP fast write without success.

One thing that seems to help is to lower acceleration one notch in
Troubleshooting.

 

[OverTheHill]

I have a 400 watt power supply installed.

 

[OverTheHill]

I solved this issue by backreving my Catalyst driver to version 3.9!!
Unfortunately the display resolution is not as good, but I will have to
live with it until ATI resolves this issue.

Thanks


I had exactly the same problem, until I did a careful

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

I solved this issue by backreving my Catalyst driver to version 3.9!!
Unfortunately the display resolution is not as good, but I will have to
live with it until ATI resolves this issue.

I 'solved' mine (which I didn't have until I installed the current
drivers - although the old ones were Dec/02!) by turning video
acceleration down exactly one notch (display, properties, setting,
advanced, troubleshoot .. move the slider back ONE notch, which should
take out just the cursor and bitmap accelerations).

Yes, theoretically things go slower, but I haven't noticed, and it
hasn't crashed. Without that 'fix' I have an application that'll crash
it 100% of the time, but ATI support have shown no interest in acquiring
same (it may only do it on my PC< with my antique 9500 card I guess .
Can't test that very easily). If my software was crashing like their is,
I'd tear the arm off anyone who said 'here is something that'll
reproduce the fault every time'.
Not, apparently, ATI.