2900xt causing games to crash

thecremeegg · 30 Aug 2007 at 23:06

Since i installed my x2900xt, after a little while in games the computer locks up and the sound loops repeatedly, and i have to do a forced reboot as the computer wont respond

Any ideas why?

ins0mn1ac · 30 Aug 2007 at 23:17

Drivers? rest of your PC? it helps

Did you reinstall OS/driver clean changing GPU or simply swap?

Tom|Nbk · 30 Aug 2007 at 23:29

What PSU are you on?

thecremeegg · 31 Aug 2007 at 00:01

Sorry, rest of pc is e6400 @ 3Ghz, 2Gb OCZ gold 6400 and asus p5b
The power supply is a hiper 580w, which other people are running the card on no problems
I reinstalled vista and its got the latest drivers...any ideas?

Tom|Nbk · 31 Aug 2007 at 00:59

Should be fine that. Have you set any options in the Bios that may affect anything, mainly PCI-E options. I remember I had a few on my P5B and it played silly buggars

thecremeegg · 31 Aug 2007 at 01:08

Erm, any ideas what settings might do that? I've changed a few things in there in order to overclock, but it was fine before :confused:

Any things relating to pci-express that i should look at?

truebluecfc · 31 Aug 2007 at 01:09

I had exactly the same problem with a 8800 GTS, the problem was caused by an unstable cpu overclock.

thecremeegg · 31 Aug 2007 at 01:11

ah, ok - i'll have a fiddle see if anything changes

Tom|Nbk · 31 Aug 2007 at 01:18

have you stress tested your CPU to make sure it's stable?

thecremeegg · 31 Aug 2007 at 01:29

Nope i havent - its been running fine for a few months so i took the real world to be a good enough test. I'll try knocking it down a bit though, see if that fixes the problem. thanks

Cyber-Mav · 31 Aug 2007 at 02:02

thecremeegg said:
Nope i havent - its been running fine for a few months so i took the real world to be a good enough test. I'll try knocking it down a bit though, see if that fixes the problem. thanks

so you overclocked your cpu without even testing it to make sure its stable and carried on using it like that? hmm ......

Tom|Nbk · 31 Aug 2007 at 02:18

Cyber-Mav said:
so you overclocked your cpu without even testing it to make sure its stable and carried on using it like that? hmm ......

rofl. No doubt it will be that you should always stress test as these things come to bite you in the bum a few months down the line

tamalero · 31 Aug 2007 at 04:36

by any chance you have an audigy sound card?

thecremeegg · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:36

Nope no audigy sound card, just built in.
Dont you roffle me young man, im a supreme computer builder...*cough*
Right so i should stress test it, what is the best program to do so? cheers

Alexrose1uk · 31 Aug 2007 at 11:42

Orthos (SP1? - think thats the one with multi core compatability). Leave it running for 8hrs on the cpu stressing mode (believe thats small fft). If it passes Orthos cpu stress test for 8hrs, the CPU's pretty much covered, then you have other components like RAM and GPU to look at

Memtest+ is still considered the definative memory testing tool as I remember.

thecremeegg · 31 Aug 2007 at 14:40

well i reverted back to stock, and it still does it, so it cant be the overclock. what else could it be?

ACESHIGH · 31 Aug 2007 at 14:53

how do i delete posts?

ACESHIGH · 31 Aug 2007 at 14:55

oops.

Last Kronin · 31 Aug 2007 at 15:56

Name the games, i only have 1 game thats a problem with my 2900xt also which Os you using? and also which cat drivers.

I know that some opengl games have problems mainly down to a bug ethier in drivers or game that causes vpu recoverys ( tom|nbk said so )

From the brief description you have put that may be whats happening, 1 make sure vpu recovery is enabled and report is ticked that way if it is a vpu recovery then hopefully the game will recovery so no need for a restart.

thecremeegg · 31 Aug 2007 at 16:22

Well its occurring so far in BF2 and COD2, i'm going to try it in Oblivion, see what happens.
How do i set the VPU recovery thing?

Thanks