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Gainward FX5600 ultra freezing
I have had a Gainward Ultra/760 XP (FX5600 ultra) for 3 weeks and have
been unable to run 3D games for more than about 15 minutes without the PC freezing and having to be turned off and on. I upgraded from a Geforce 2 which ran everything without problems. The games I play are Everquest and UT2003 and the problem also arises in 3Dmark03. The freeze almost always happens when a new level/zone is loading or has just loaded and very rarely in the middle of a level. I have: Athlon 2500 MSI KT4VL motherboard 512 Mb Corsair PC2700 RAM SB Live US Robotics network card Thermaltake 420W PSU Windows 98SE These are some of the many things I have tried: Upgrading to 44.03 drivers Upgrading to 448 4 in 1 drivers Upgrading to DirectX 9.0b Ensuring that video, network and sound cards are not sharing IRQs Changed AGP aperture from 128 to 64 and 32 Disabled/enabled fast writes Lowered hardware acceleration Increased AGP voltage Underclocked/overclocked video card Removed sound and network cards I assume my PSU is good enough and I don't think it can be overheating. I also tried the card in another lower-spec PC and had exactly the same problems. My final option is to return the card - but I don't know whether it is a problem with this particular card or if there is some compatability with my system. Has anyone got any ideas please? Thanks in advance |
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om... I have had a Gainward Ultra/760 XP (FX5600 ultra) for 3 weeks and have been unable to run 3D games for more than about 15 minutes without the PC freezing and having to be turned off and on. I upgraded from a Geforce 2 which ran everything without problems. The games I play are Everquest and UT2003 and the problem also arises in 3Dmark03. The freeze almost always happens when a new level/zone is loading or has just loaded and very rarely in the middle of a level. I have: Athlon 2500 MSI KT4VL motherboard 512 Mb Corsair PC2700 RAM SB Live US Robotics network card Thermaltake 420W PSU Windows 98SE These are some of the many things I have tried: Upgrading to 44.03 drivers Upgrading to 448 4 in 1 drivers Upgrading to DirectX 9.0b Ensuring that video, network and sound cards are not sharing IRQs Changed AGP aperture from 128 to 64 and 32 Disabled/enabled fast writes Lowered hardware acceleration Increased AGP voltage Underclocked/overclocked video card Removed sound and network cards I assume my PSU is good enough and I don't think it can be overheating. I also tried the card in another lower-spec PC and had exactly the same problems. My final option is to return the card - but I don't know whether it is a problem with this particular card or if there is some compatability with my system. Has anyone got any ideas please? Thanks in advance hi. a bit late if u sent the card back, but i had similar problem with my fx5900, 400 watt pwr and volcano 7+. I had to re-route all power connectors and make sure that the fx card was only sharing with other low drain items, in my case just the volcano 7 and a twin intake fan unit. when i used power splitters from the hd to power th fx card it would randomly lock up and never complete 3dmark 2003. now it works fine and gives a 3dmark of 4934 with an xp2100 - try giving the card its own power supply and see if it cures your problem terry |
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sorry to be a dope terry, but i'm not sure what you mean when you say "try
giving the card its own power supply" the card plugs right into the mobo and draws power that way... not by sharing a 4-pin connector like what plugs into a hard drive i must be missing something this is of interest to me since i am having the EXACT same problem but with different specs (see the thread subject "geforce fx 5200 on athlon 900"): PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 128meg (non-ultra) Abit KT7 (latest bios and latest VIA 4-in-1) Athlon Thunderstruck 900 512 PC133 2 NICS (realtek & netgear) SB PCI 512 Antec 300 W PSU Windows XP Pro, SP1 i also play different games... "Terry Hancock" wrote in message ... "Stephen" wrote in message om... I have had a Gainward Ultra/760 XP (FX5600 ultra) for 3 weeks and have been unable to run 3D games for more than about 15 minutes without the PC freezing and having to be turned off and on. I upgraded from a Geforce 2 which ran everything without problems. The games I play are Everquest and UT2003 and the problem also arises in 3Dmark03. The freeze almost always happens when a new level/zone is loading or has just loaded and very rarely in the middle of a level. I have: Athlon 2500 MSI KT4VL motherboard 512 Mb Corsair PC2700 RAM SB Live US Robotics network card Thermaltake 420W PSU Windows 98SE These are some of the many things I have tried: Upgrading to 44.03 drivers Upgrading to 448 4 in 1 drivers Upgrading to DirectX 9.0b Ensuring that video, network and sound cards are not sharing IRQs Changed AGP aperture from 128 to 64 and 32 Disabled/enabled fast writes Lowered hardware acceleration Increased AGP voltage Underclocked/overclocked video card Removed sound and network cards I assume my PSU is good enough and I don't think it can be overheating. I also tried the card in another lower-spec PC and had exactly the same problems. My final option is to return the card - but I don't know whether it is a problem with this particular card or if there is some compatability with my system. Has anyone got any ideas please? Thanks in advance hi. a bit late if u sent the card back, but i had similar problem with my fx5900, 400 watt pwr and volcano 7+. I had to re-route all power connectors and make sure that the fx card was only sharing with other low drain items, in my case just the volcano 7 and a twin intake fan unit. when i used power splitters from the hd to power th fx card it would randomly lock up and never complete 3dmark 2003. now it works fine and gives a 3dmark of 4934 with an xp2100 - try giving the card its own power supply and see if it cures your problem terry |
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ACPI is one of the few things that actually shares IRQs very nicely with
other devices, in particular it's the one device that nVidia card-makers say it's okay to share with the AGP video card. I personally don't recommend disabling the ACPI IRQ. All of the Ultra cards use the 4-pin Molex connector, at least all of the Ultra cards I have seen as well as all FX 5800 and FX 5900 cards, and from what I understand you DO need it connected for the card to work properly. The only FX 5600 and 5200 Ultra cards from Gainward have the words "Golden Sample" in their product name(s). The Ultra 760 and Ultra 780 are NOT FX 5600 Ultra cards unless they have the "Golden Sample" in the product name. Look at the specs, go to Gainward and look for yourself (www.gainward.com/c-2.html) and you will see that the only FX 5X00 Ultra cards have the words "Golden Sample" in their product name. Personally I think it's a monstrous marketing mistake by Gainward and it's more than a little misleading to consumers, but when has honesty and integrity been a priority for marketing computer hardware/software recently? Ron "missmuffy33" wrote in message t... thanks for the info Stephen i do have my vid card on its own irq, in fact the only irq sharing is with my 2 nics (both on irq 11)... otherwise everything is on its own i haven't disabled acpi yet so i'm looking into that any advice with that? seems like i have to do it in my bios... - kevin "Stephen" wrote in message m... Terry, thanks for your suggestion. I'm fairly certain that the last time I installed the card it was on it's own power supply, but I will certainly keep that in mind in the future. Kevin, my video card (all Gainward FXs?) does actually need a separate power supply - like hard drives! I've never seen one like it before. As for your problem - I had the same motherboard and Athlon 900 as you. When I installed my old Geforce 2 on it I had similar problems to you. I solved them by moving my sound and network cards around until neither were sharing IRQs (especially with the video card) and I also disabled ACPI - I was (and still am) running Windows 98SE. I guess you've already tried those things. I didn't have the flickering effect though. Mario, I'm sure you're absolutely correct, but in my BIOS, the only option was to raise the voltage - so that was what I tried! Thanks for all your suggestions. Mario Kadastik wrote in message ... wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 21:31:22 GMT, "missmuffy33" wrote: sorry to be a dope terry, but i'm not sure what you mean when you say "try giving the card its own power supply" the card plugs right into the mobo and draws power that way... not by sharing a 4-pin connector like what plugs into a hard drive i must be missing something this is of interest to me since i am having the EXACT same problem but with different specs (see the thread subject "geforce fx 5200 on athlon 900"): PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 128meg (non-ultra) Abit KT7 (latest bios and latest VIA 4-in-1) Athlon Thunderstruck 900 512 PC133 2 NICS (realtek & netgear) SB PCI 512 Antec 300 W PSU Windows XP Pro, SP1 i also play different games... Check you suplly votages and some Bios setups let you adj the 3.3 V, so set this for 3.4V or 3.5v as I have had similar problems Low Votages will cause problems with 3D cards as they draw lots of AMP's Sorry, if it's a stupid question, but isn't normally lowering voltage a way to get more AMPS? As far as I know W=U*I where W is power (measured in Watts), U is voltage (in volts) and I is current (measured in ampers). Using AC current there is also a sqrt(2) in this formula, but as the internal power should be DC, then this formula should do. This wouldn't be correct if the power supply is designed to give more amps with more voltage (W would be a a higher order function of U and hence increase in voltage would cause a bigger increase in W and therefore giving you more amps). Someone knowing the design of power supplys should comment on this (not that it might help the user having crashes but I'd like to know). Mario |
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tried that but no dice there either
i'm saving my pennies for a new PSU at the moment we'll see what that does once installed "Nick" wrote in message om... I seem to have improved my situation (though lockups still occur) by changing the agp driving value from DE to EA in the BIOS. What this does is increase the strength of the signal that goes to the AGP card. Let me know if that works for you. |
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I think I've cured my "freezing" problem by installing the new 45.23
Win98/ME drivers. Thanks again to all who tried to help me. |
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