ATI issues

[ChaosdaJoker]

Hey recently my friends computer has been throwing this error out.

ATI VPU recover Vpu recover has reset your graphics accelerater as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands.

Other times it will just reboot on its own at random, or turn off completely and not restart, i have looked and looked for the problems that could be causing this, and ive read everything from, RAM to PSU causing the problems, to a dead GFX card itself,

The ATI card has the artic cooler installed and has been running fine for well over a year, this has only started happening in the last 2-4 weeks, and we really dont know whats causing it,

Has anyone else had or seen, or even know the cause of this.

Thanks

 

[ChaosdaJoker]

Ill have to check the PSU rails, the GPU itself i dont think it reading the correct temp back, we ran GW in a window last night to see and the card reported that the temp didnt change at all, from desktop to 3d,

So we ran 3dmark and it crashed hard, the screen had lines all across it, you couldnt make out anything at all, even when we forced the system reboot the screen was messed up until the system actually rebooted.

My first thoughts where the PSU itself, like you said, but could this cause the card to crash like that????

 

[ChaosdaJoker]

The card is a x800XT PE

In windows it reports temps of 48C Idle, when we opened Guild Wars in a window for and it slowly creeped up to 60C before we closed it.

So we then opened 3dmark and within seconds it went black and all screwed up, we didnt even get to see a temp reading.


Ok Update:

We ran the Everest Home Edition, and in the debug video Bios, and the very bottom it sais.

C000:0080 113-A26105-103......R420.AGP.DDR3...RADEON X800 XT Platinum.....
C000:00C0 YOU HAVE NOT CONNECTED THE POWER CABLE TO YOUR VIDEO CARD.PLEASE
C000:0100 REFER TO THE 'GETTING STARTED GUIDE' FOR PROPER HARDWARE INSTAL

So looks like PSU maybe the cause.