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I having a very bad problem with my computer.
Every time I play a game the thing just crashes. Here are my system specs:
AMD Athlon 2200+ (1.8ghz)
Radeon 9000Pro 128mb (4xAGP)
30gig HDD
512mb DDR PC2700 (333mhz)
WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL.
Lets just clear a few things up about what I have done already:
-I have uninstalled the Catalyst drivers and reinstalled the 3.9 catalyst drivers.
-I have reinstalled DirectX 9.0b
I have run DxDiag. It works for Direct Draw, but when I try to run Direct 3D Tests, the screen turns off or i get a message asking to send an error report to ATI. BUT, if I cancel the DirectX 7 test, DirectX 8 and 9 Tests work fine.
Just an addition, it plays Call of Duty and Battlefield 1942 perfectly as long as you play them as soon as you turn the PC on and after that all games crash.
Also, it IS NOT HEAT. This PC USED to be on Windows 98se, and it runned perfectly fine. I have run the PC with the case off and i really dont see how upgrading the OS can make it generate any more heat.
I don't know what this means at all or how to fix it, so any help would be gratefully accepted.
Every time I play a game the thing just crashes. Here are my system specs:
AMD Athlon 2200+ (1.8ghz)
Radeon 9000Pro 128mb (4xAGP)
30gig HDD
512mb DDR PC2700 (333mhz)
WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL.
Lets just clear a few things up about what I have done already:
-I have uninstalled the Catalyst drivers and reinstalled the 3.9 catalyst drivers.
-I have reinstalled DirectX 9.0b
I have run DxDiag. It works for Direct Draw, but when I try to run Direct 3D Tests, the screen turns off or i get a message asking to send an error report to ATI. BUT, if I cancel the DirectX 7 test, DirectX 8 and 9 Tests work fine.
Just an addition, it plays Call of Duty and Battlefield 1942 perfectly as long as you play them as soon as you turn the PC on and after that all games crash.
Also, it IS NOT HEAT. This PC USED to be on Windows 98se, and it runned perfectly fine. I have run the PC with the case off and i really dont see how upgrading the OS can make it generate any more heat.
I don't know what this means at all or how to fix it, so any help would be gratefully accepted.
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Which motherboard model do you have?
Yes, the bios only lets u select upto 4x and there is no reference to any enabling or disabling of this feature.
Have you enabled all relevant options in your BIOS and drivers?
It is an 8xAGP board.
Your motherboard needs to support AGP 8x.
Fl4wless wrote:
> BUT, while i am at it, I swear the card was 8xAGP, but it is only
> runs on XP and in Bios at 4x and the same thing was on 98se, but I
> discounted that as it didn't effect it in 98.
Sounds like your motherboard only supports 4xAGP (to run at 8x both the motherboard and the gfx card have to have 8x).
> BUT, while i am at it, I swear the card was 8xAGP, but it is only
> runs on XP and in Bios at 4x and the same thing was on 98se, but I
> discounted that as it didn't effect it in 98.
Sounds like your motherboard only supports 4xAGP (to run at 8x both the motherboard and the gfx card have to have 8x).
Yeah, i guess the GFX Card is screwed then. I'll just get a 9600XT.
I'll test a Geforce 4 ti4200 in it and see if that works first though.
BUT, while i am at it, I swear the card was 8xAGP, but it is only runs on XP and in Bios at 4x and the same thing was on 98se, but I discounted that as it didn't effect it in 98.
Well, thanks for your help, and answer to question above wud be cool. Anyways, off to buy a new gfx card.
I'll test a Geforce 4 ti4200 in it and see if that works first though.
BUT, while i am at it, I swear the card was 8xAGP, but it is only runs on XP and in Bios at 4x and the same thing was on 98se, but I discounted that as it didn't effect it in 98.
Well, thanks for your help, and answer to question above wud be cool. Anyways, off to buy a new gfx card.
I had exactly this problem with my graphics card (Im ashamed to say its a Geforce4 128MB MX440 - 8X) and it was that I had installed the newest drivers from Nvidia. Basically the card is slightly different from the reference board and therefore the default drivers stop DirectX running. Try reinstalling the drivers from your disk that came with the card, and if that doesn't work I would go with the previous post.
I had this problem, same card. I had to buy a new one.
It was because the fan wasnt working properly, and by the time i had noticed, it was too late, the card was damaged.
I was angry as it was about 3 months old.
It was because the fan wasnt working properly, and by the time i had noticed, it was too late, the card was damaged.
I was angry as it was about 3 months old.
I'm afraid to say it sounds very much like heat to me. Can you point a desk fan at the graphics card?
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