I am real curious if a new PSU fixes this, as I have the same PSU and are in the market for a new video card but am leaning more towards R&R'ing the MB and cpu and going PCI whatever they are :-D
board and a chip starting to make more sense to me then putting money in a agp gpu fp At 04:59 PM 7/9/2006, Bobby Heid Poked the stick with: >Sorry, meant for this to got to the list. > >Bobby > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bobby Heid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 7:41 PM >To: 'Stan Zaske' >Subject: RE: [H] New video card > >I put the card on it's own lead and I am still having the same problems. > >I never had problems (except for low framrate in CFS3. I might have already >patched it. I'll check it out. > >I tried running Crimson Skies and it locks up pretty fast. I ran Quake III >for about 20 minutes and it did the same thing. > >When it locks up, the screen goes black and the power button on the monitor >blinks. The game stutters where it was and I have to reset the machine. > >Do you all see a new PS in my future? The Antec TruePower2 550 looks like >it might work. > >Thanks, >Bobby > >-----Original Message----- >From: Stan Zaske [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 3:58 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List >Subject: Re: [H] New video card > >The game is buggy, see if there are any update patches. > > >Bobby Heid wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I finally got and installed my 7800GS AGP video card. With the >> benchmarks below, there was some beautiful graphics. I was amazed. >> >> Compared to my TI 4200, this thing flies. My 3dmark 03 scores went >> from 1700 to 13097. For completeness, my 3smark 2005 score is 5561 >> and 06 is 2893. Aquamark before was 16272, after 61484. Not too bad >> of a jump. LOL. >> >> Now, my question. >> >> In MS Combat FS 3, I will be playing and then lose video after about >> 2-3 minutes. And the sound starts looping. I have to reset the >> machine to get it back. The same thing happened with another game >> (can't remember which game now). It plays Quake III fine. >> >> I have an Antec Truepower 480 watt PS. I have 4 HDs, 4 case fans, 1 >> floppy, and 2 DVD burners. The 12V lead connected to the 7800GS was >> connected to a 120MM fan and the two DVD drives. I disconnected the >> 120mm fan and the card still did the same thing in CFS 3. >> >> My first thought is that the card is not getting enough power. What >> do you all think? Think I need to upgrade the PS? >> >> Without a game running, the APC monitor shows a draw of about 250-270 >> watts. >> >> Thanks, >> Bobby >> >> -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Sir Lancelot, you have chain mail in Knight's Conference.
