ASUS, RADEON 9600 Pro issues

[Sgt. Quentin Profile]

It has been sugested that I post here since it is a problem with any game now. I just had the system in my sig. assembled, I can load games but with in five minutes the game crashes to desktop or restarts the system. I have the latest drivers and catalyst I turned off the GART removed the GART and tried a TI 4200 8x card the same thing is happening. I formatted and reinstaled winxp pro and battlefileld tried and crashed added the 1.6 patch , crashed, put in the crap game that came with the video card MOTHER TRUCKERS, died after splash screen. I am reduced to spider solitare on my $800+ lean mean battlefield machine. Any sugestions? I would really be grateful to anyone who can help. I would even offer my first born but she is a preteen brat. LOL:wall:

[Evan Profile Website]

Topic Moved.

The Server Technical Support forum is only for ECGN customers who have server issues.

Try reformatting and reinstalling Windows?

Perhaps it's the motherboard?

[Rule of Wrist]

You now have two sticks of 512 ram, correct? Try taking out one stick and see what happens... then try the other... try the single stick in all the different slots...

A bad stick of memory can cause problems, or a bad mem slot...

Also, on my board it has a couple of settings in the BIOS for how fast the computer is supposed to run... it goes something like "normal, fast, and turbo"... for whatever reason, it doesn't like the turbo setting... this has always caused errors, but set it down a notch, and it works fine, and I can't see what those settings do anyway... so it's no big deal...

If all else fails, return the whole lot and get it replaced...

[RCglider Profile]

what brand ram is it?

[shockwave203 Profile]

in the past, I have had to download and isntall the latest chipset drivers for my motherboard in order to stop the crashing. Make sure you go to your mobo's website and get the latest drivers. It makes a huge difference, not many people know that. Someone suggested that I update my mobo drivers and it may a world of difference. stopped crashing and increased performance big time.

ALso, you said that you have tried your ti4200 card and it does the same thing? well, if you'r'e switching back and forth between ATI/Nvidia, the drivers still stay on your PC even if you uninstall them. if you've been switching cards back and forth, you should download and install a driver cleaner, I think you can get some from guru3d.com

goodluck man

oh and like Evan said, do a reformat. that's the best thing you can do. gets rid of all the drivers, settings, etc and you start fresh. then install mobo drivers, display drivers (yes, in that order) and you should be good to go.

[Chacal Profile Website]

Yes, mobo drivers are important, especially AGP drivers from your chipset manufacturer.

[BladeRunner Profile]

Originally posted by Rule of Wrist
You now have two sticks of 512 ram, correct? Try taking out one stick and see what happens... then try the other... try the single stick in all the different slots...

A bad stick of memory can cause problems, or a bad mem slot...

Thats my suggestion also.

[Bullhead]

Originally posted by Rule of Wrist
Also, on my board it has a couple of settings in the BIOS for how fast the computer is supposed to run... it goes something like "normal, fast, and turbo"... for whatever reason, it doesn't like the turbo setting... this has always caused errors, but set it down a notch, and it works fine, and I can't see what those settings do anyway... so it's no big deal...

Rule, afaik, turbo runs very agressive mem timings, so if your pc doesn't like that setting it's likely that your mem isn't up to it.....

[Sgt. Quentin Profile]

Sorry for posting in the wrong spot Yadad sugested it, thanks for moving me.

Rule and Blade were Right it was a bad stick of RAM we wiped it clean each time we switched the card but we started pulling parts and swaping them with a working CPU untill we found the Culprit. Thanks Again for all your wisdom, It sure helped.