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"9800 PRO problem."

Iv been out and brought a 9800pro last week and it basically doesn’t work, it was crashing out on games with the latest catalyst drivers so I took it back and got a cash refund, now this Saturday I saw another one and I had the money so I went and got it. With this one VPU recover kept kicking in and when I disabled it the whole pc froze. Messing around with the bios and settings for ages, at around 2pm I decided to turn it down to 4x AGP, hay presto it works fine, well not fine, stable. Does any one know if this is the graphics card itself or the motherboard? I have my suspicions that it is the motherboard a cheap PCchips M848A. What do you lot think?

I'm sure it wont, my granddad is popping over the shop tomorrow to get one whilst I go to school so I should hopefully have it tomorrow. I just hope that it will run at 8xAGP now, if not the card is going back.

Meh, they won't dissapoint.

I’ve just realized that it only had 333fsb I have a 3200+ and the one up from that’s 20 pound more which I cant afford after spending 250 in the last week so it looks like a Gigabyte for me.

AHA!

Best PSU ever: (and my one) Tagan TG480-U01.

480W. Excellent rails. Pure class.

If you have an AMD, I'd definately recommend the NF7 or NF7-S (not the new cutdown version!). I'd also suggest you perhaps check your PSU and check you have a decent wattage, and possibly make, as trying to run a Radeon9800Pro on less than 350Watts can cause restarts, instability etc.

Oh, if you say so.

Coin wrote:
> Little thing called typo.

No, loads of people type "brought" every single time they mean "bought", because they're idiots who don't realise that they're completely different words.

Does it have everything you want?

Nah, I just suck at literature. What about the ABIT NF7 only 7 quid more?

Little thing called typo.