Sorry, you've been bitten by the Radeon bug which is a biological
invader from another world characterized by its voracious desire to
screw up your computing experience in preparation for world domination.
I really hate to be the one to inform you of this bug but it also bit me
in the form of a Sapphire Radeon 9600XT AGP 8X which did the same from
day one on two separate mobo's. I thought I had solved the problem by
reducing the AGP bus speed from 66 to 50 MHz but it finally breathed
it's last breath last week (it died after extensive fragging by a local
LANParty group dedicated to saving the Earth). My best advise is to
repeat after me: Radeon sucks! Radeon sucks! and eventually this mantra
will enable you to make peace with your life and enable you to let go of
all the goals you ever hoped to accomplish. Or you could just RMA it.
This email will self-destruct in 5...4...3...2... @:D>
j m g wrote:
Folks,
I've got an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb in an Asus A7N8XE-Deluxe,
everything is almost working fine except that when I go to play a game
Brothers In Arms, EE2 within a couple of minutes my machine will just
power off, like pull the power cord off, not a gracefull shutdown, no
warning, no blue screen, nothing. This is a recent starting event,
I've cycled through no ati driver, catalyst, and omega's - no
difference. Running WinXP SP2 on hardware that hasn't changed for a
while, I've run multiple benchmark stuff, Prime95 for 24 hours and the
machine doesn't hiccup.
Any Ideas? The Radeon is still within ATI's 3 year warranty if just
barely so I might just try and RMA it.
TIA
--
-jmg
-sapere aude
