I vote for a Viking Funeral >:-}
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At 01:08 AM 1/21/2006, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with:
>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>
>
>
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>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
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>--
>Tallyho ! ]:8)
>Taglines below !
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>A flying saucer results when a nudist spills his coffee.
