Video problems on my A7V600

[lotrtrotk]

Hi there,

I have an Asus A7V600, and I'm having some major issues with system stability with my current video card. I had first had issues a few months ago with a celestica Radeon 9600xt 128mb. I would get random lock-ups or reboots. I took it into the company who sold me the card, and got it replaced on warrenty. They didn't have any of the same card in stock so they gave me a better card in the same class. An Asus 9600xt/tvd. A GREAT improvement . Things have been working awesome on this card for the longest time, but now after about 4 or 5 months, I am noticing similar issues as before. I am certain that it is not heat problems, because my video card runs very cool (mid 40s celcius for both VPU & VRAM) even after a crash. I have tried several different driver versions on both these cards. I have upgraded my motherboard bios, I have done completely fresh installs of windows xp. Nothing seems to free me of these problems. I have heard people say that Asus boards have been known to have problems with ati cards. Is this true, or just one person's opinion?

I have an older GF2 Ti, and have never had an artifact or a glitch or anything. Right now, I am using it so that I can at least play games without crashing. I am planning on buying an MSI Neo-F2 motherboard. I am content with my Radeon (when it's working) and would like to stick with it for the time being. Do you think this new motherboard will run the card stable? Is there anything else I could try to give me better reliability? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

 

[dmroeder]

Are you sure it's not a power supply issue. Most of the reboot problems that I've seen are due to either a bad power supply or an inadequate power supply. You need to post more details about your system. RAM, PSU, CPU voltages, ect...

 

[lotrtrotk]

PSU was the first thing I looked at back when I originally had the problems with my old card. I had Motherboard Monitor 5 writing to a log file about my stystem status, and the power voltages didn't seem to change when a crash happened. But the recent problems haven't been reboots. I get either A. a VPU Recover error, or B. The screen gets distorted, and I have to manually restart. But no Rebooting on this new card. I really don't think that my PSU is underpowering. It is a 420w Thermaltake PSU, and I have 1cdrw, 1dvdrw, 2ide HDs, 3 case fans, mobo, video card, 512 pc2100 ram, no PCI cards. I don't really think that these would require over 420w.

 

[pat]

I have that PSU and it is powering my system that is much more loaded than yours perfectly. Did you install the VIA 4in1 drivers? Try to disable fastdraw in AGP. That's all I can see from now. Maybe you should download driver cleaner (google it for the link) and clean all the trace from your nvidia drivers and ATI one. Then, Install the latest 4in1 and the ATI one, disabling fastdraw in BIOS (if available) or with ATI control panel and give it another try.

I haven't heard about Asus motherboard having problem with ATI video card... They have problem by themself..

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[lotrtrotk]

VIA 4in1? Do you have a link for this? are these motherboard drivers, or video card drivers? I will try to disable the fast-draw in AGP. If I recall correctly, it has always been on, though I don't really know what it's purpose is.

I have tried that driver cleaner long ago. Didn't make a difference. The problem has happend right from a 100% brand new install of windows, where I had put nothing on it, but the newest ATI catalyst. And a game to test. If it is anything, I would think... power, bios-setting, or hard-ware defect (although, the same defect in 2 different brand radeons would be slim chance I think).

 

[pat]

viaarena.com, IIRC. google them to have more accurate result. These are motherboard drivers

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[Nights_L]

Splicing every wire on a 68pin SCSI ribbon in less than 20minutes with a blade and making absolutely ZERO mistakes!

I splited every wire on a 40pin EIDE ribbon in less than 15min

But then why would his computer work perfectly before even without VIA 4-in-1 driver installed? I think that even MS Windows' standard driver is good enough to run a computer stably no? not fastest of course..