I have a All in Wonder 9600. I have been running it for the last 22 months.
I am not a gamer, have never over clocked the GPU. ... I bought the AIW for
it's TV, and capture capability. It ran OK for the first 18 months, but
sometime in last May I started getting lock ups,... but only when using the
ATI TV, and just recently when playing an old game = Unreal II.
This is running on a Asus PC DL Deluxe with dual Xeon 3.06 with 4GB of
Kingston RAM and Raptor hard drives, PC Power and Cooling Xeon power
supply. ....so I never locked up the whole system. With a dual box you
always have one CPU that isn't locked. But I would always have to reboot in
order to get back to normal.
These locks occurred when running the TV, or when recording. Could go for a
twenty minutes, or an hour. Sometimes it wouldn't lock at all unless I
tried to stop recording, or turn the TV off. I tried everything I could
think of to resolve this, update drivers, remove reinstall drivers, move
PCI cards around, but a after a month I gave up. I couldn't see anything
wrong in Device manager on this board in XP PRO SP2.
I finally tried a new XP PRO install, and this seem to work, for a while,
but it didn't take long for the problem to re-emerge. However, I found a
work around. If I shut down a number of running programs, and then used
Zonealarm to lock out any Internet access I could use with it without
locking up.... well, about 70 percent of the time. thirty percent of the
time it locked up no matter what I did. I used it like this for a while
until I finally decided to fix this problem with a upgrade. So I bought a
new All in Wonder 800XT, started over with a new XP PRO install, and now
everything works fine.
I took the 9600 and put it in another box, = Tyan Tiger dual PIII 1GB, 1300
megs of RAM, Maxtor Ultra 33 72K drives, Antec True power, 550 power
supply. This box was running just fine with a 7500 All in Wonder AGP in
Windows 2000 SP4. But I could not get the 9600 installed, so I decided to
just start over with a clean Windows 2000 SP4 install. But this didn't help
because I have this odd memory conflict >
http://members.cox.net/winterlight/conflict.jpg
I have played with the BIOS settings, I have removed every PCI card,
disabled all ports, nothing connected but the AGP, one hard drive and a
floppy, and I still have this conflict. Doesn't matter what I do, I can't
get rid of it, and with it the conflict no drivers will install.
I was thinking of attempting a new XP PRO install to see if that would sort
it out. But first I tried sticking the AIW 7500 back in to my new 2k
install, and bingo....everything went good again. No conflicts, no
problems, all AGP and PCI slots loaded with 6 drives.... everything running
good.
This tells me that it is not the motherboard. Fortunately, I have another
13 months on the AIW 9600 warranty.
This has to be something bad on the card.... right?
