I have a Sapphire 9600XT I bought new that frequently locked up on 2
separate mobo's when the XP desktop appears on screen or when opening
the [EMAIL PROTECTED] display. Sometimes I had to do a reset 5 or 6 times
before it would settle down. Other times a crash would cause it to
spontaneously reboot and I would find my PC @ the XP logon dialog box
waiting for input who knows how long (not my main machine). Different
drivers had no effect either. I think the card is defective but never
returned it because I got it to run stably by reducing the AGP bus speed
from 66 to 50 MHz. It's in an Asus NF2/Athlon XP box right now and when
it's doing well I don't have to reboot for weeks. Have you tried running
your card under 66 MHz?
My current 6600GT is stable as a rock! Ever since Ati started pushing
their chipset business their video cards have really suffered. Pretty
similar to nVidia when they first started to break into the chipset biz.
I hope Ati can turn their company around like nVidia has over the past
year. @:)>
Winterlight wrote:
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?
