Problems with 9600pro

[Roar]

Hi,
I recently installed Power Color Radeon 9600pro 128mb, along with the latest catalyst drivers. I set everything up and went to play a game (Half life: Counter strike). After about 20 minutes or so of playing i get a VPU error which takes me to desktop. It says my graphics accelerator had to be reset. It then gives me an option to send an error report to ATI, which i do. Any ideas why my graphics card would be crashing, and any ideas on how to fix it?
I can use my older Geforce 4 mx440 128mb without any problems, but the 9600pro is alot nicer and i'd like to get it working if possible ;/
Thanks in advance.
Michael.

My PC specs are as follows:
Asus A7N8X-X nForce2 Motherboard
Athlon 2800+ Barton @ 2.09Ghz
512mb(2x256mb)TwinmosPc3200 ddr ram
80gb 7,200rpm Maxtor hdd
Power Color Radeon 9600pro 128mb
Power Man 250W PSU

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Turn off FastWrites.

That's likely the problem, I had similar issues a while back.


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[Coyote]

BTW, since it sounds like you had an nVidia card in there b4 the ati, did you use drivercleaner or driver detonator program to clean-out fragments of old nvidia drivers? If not, probs often pop up.

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[Robc1880]

Do you have VPU recover on? if your not OC'ing your card you can turn it off and then you won't have to worry about getting that VPU reset warning.

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