9600 Pro lock up problem

[Crashman]

I've seen people reporting the same problem and having fixed it by upgrading their power supply, so it could be a power problem (and I say that with only 25% certainty).

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[Lathander]

the chipset in intel's download page is 865G, mine is 865PE. does this make any difference or is 865G just a general name?

 

[redstar]

makes no difference..the link is for any member of the 865 family (which includes yours).
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edit hold on a sec

edit: it says 865 family on page..

but then it lists chips not part of that family...and makes no mention of yours. Seems contradictory.

So..i would say it would be best just to ask the place where you bought your computer from..they can give you a definitive answer.

or you motherboard maker's forum.



<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by redStar on 08/28/03 06:45 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Lathander]

actually i guess these drivers are for on board graphic cards in 865G chipset motherboards. since my motherboard doesn't have an onboard graphic card, these drivers have no use to me. so these are not like hyperion drivers, i believe.

 

[redstar]

here is a thought for troubleshooting ...to see if your problem might be same as mine.

from the run command line

type: smartgart

then turn off both agp read and agp write (you then reboot as prompted)

this will cost you 25% in performance...

however if you can run you games with no lockups...for say 1 day + ...

then we can say with more certainty what the problem is.

 

[Lathander]

unfortunately, it worked. i say "unfortunately", because i have just started to uninstall my windows updates to find the source of the problem, so i have lost a lot of updates including service pack. i don't know why but my restore points don't work. now that we know the problem, what can i do? where can i find those agp drivers?

 

[solipsis89]

Hey guys, I just got a Sapphire ATI Radeon 9000 and I'm having the same problems (games hang right away, warcraft 3, half life). I updated the 4in1 drivers, the card drivers, cleaned the nvidia drivers, have tried everything. No luck. The weird thing is, when I got the card, games were working fine for a day or two, then all of a sudden it all stopped (around the time my onboard sound quit too).

I have:
AMD Athlon xp 1800
ASrock mobo (kt266a)
256 sd ram
40 gig hd
win 98 se

im about to pull my hair out

 

[redstar]

Well, as far as i can gather as ATi was unwilling to say,
turning off the agp read/write means that the graphics card now has to go through system memory instead of communicating directly with the chipset.

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my 4 in 1 drivers...agp driver update..largly solved this problem for me (now..one of the items listed in new update was support for agp 3).

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so lets hope that update gart driver (vga driver) and/or updated cat drivers can work out all the problems.
its not us...i've seen far too many people on many forums now complaining about similiar problems.

 

[Lathander]

here's an interesting thing. i have uninstalled all of the windows updates and now i have fewer lock ups. i had fewer lock ups when i first setup my system, too. i guess it's an incompatibility problem. and i hope they will be able to solve it by next driver update of ati.

 

[Willamette_sucks]

Ignore that Asus Probe "fan below threshold" thing. Just ignore it. Says that on mine too.

He probly dosnt even have those fans plugged into the motherboard guys! Hello!?

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