TF2 problem

Jimmy1983 · 2 Nov 2007 at 16:57

screeny off my BIOS, apparently press Ctrl and F1 brings up a new menu in M.I.T for the timings, but I can't see it

Forgot to mention I don't think its a hardware issue as I played HL2 about a month ago on vista, and it played fine.

Jimmy1983 · 2 Nov 2007 at 17:56

Zogger said:
timings are there,

CAS Latency time 4
RAS to CAS 4
RAS Precharge 4
Precharge Delay 12

cheers, so they are ok then. Will try the prime testing then.

Jimmy1983 · 2 Nov 2007 at 18:30

FrostedNipple said:
It's not right! atm they are 5-5-5-18

according to what you said you had, they should be 4-4-4-12

You need to change DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) to Manuel and then set it to 4-4-4-12 in that order, then leave it and save setting restart etc!

Iam not 100% that the timings should be 4-4-4-12, iam just going by this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL

Can you confirm for me please?

Jimmy1983 · 2 Nov 2007 at 18:33

masterk said:
Make sure you up the DRAM voltage to the value suggested on page 1.

DRAM voltage, can't see that option and I don't know what voltage. Ive not said about a certain voltage.

Sorry to be a plain, hardly entered into the BIOS before

Jimmy1983 · 2 Nov 2007 at 19:06

masterk, this is the bottom off that BIOS screeny, you might be able to see what option it is that I need.

Iam guessing it might be 'system voltage control'?

Thanks again

Jimmy1983 · 3 Nov 2007 at 11:48

Changed the timings to 4-4-4-12, not changed 'DRAM voltage' as I can't find the option.

Tried running TF2, crashed as norm then a blue screen something like 'blue screen more or less iqual' didnt see it quick enough as it rebooted.

Tried Crysis, then this blue screen,

then managed to get into the desktop then hung with this screeny

then the above blue screen now keeps coming up just before I get into the desktop.

Jimmy1983 · 3 Nov 2007 at 14:58

Also posted in the RAM section, http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10410348&posted=1#post10410348

Ive manually changed the timings to 4-4-4-12 and upped the voltage to to +0.3v.

Just booted up, and no blue screen. Will leave pc for hour or so see if its stable then try TF2.

Thanks for all the help on this

Jimmy1983 · 3 Nov 2007 at 18:01

Dirk said:
If you go into the Event viewer after you have a crash have a look under tha 'Application' and the 'System' logs and see if anything is flagged up with a Red error icon.

Just tried TF2 again, guess what.....same problem :mad:

Looking in Event viewer in system this is shown,

Dunno if its much help?!

Will try the Orthos testing next then!

Jimmy1983 · 3 Nov 2007 at 18:11

Keylow said:
If it helps, my X1950pro tends to crap out about 85C under load. Try giving it a dust with some compressed air to get load temps down.

Thanks, yer will try doing that.

Jimmy1983 · 3 Nov 2007 at 19:45

Checked the gfx card, can't see any dust build up, and the fan is spinning ok as are the other case fans.

Jimmy1983 · 3 Nov 2007 at 20:49

Just ran othos for just under an hour, no errors,

Jimmy1983 · 4 Nov 2007 at 13:43

Took out my gfx card this morning and cleaned the fan, wasnt that much dust in it anyway.

Anyone have any other ideas, starting to run out off ideas now

Jimmy1983 · 4 Nov 2007 at 15:10

Zogger said:
seems very unlikely to be the problem and I'm not sure if it's already been suggested, but have you tried the hotfix linked here?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105

cheers Zogger, someone on another forum suggesuted that. Installed it, and still having the same problem.

FrostedNipple

Well actaully any game I try to play

Jimmy1983 · 4 Nov 2007 at 15:35

FrostedNipple said:
any! wow ermmm, thats truly odd, as orthos runs fine for an hour, but you can't load a game!

Do you have a spare gfx card laying about! Yours might be knackered!

Well ive tried Crysis, HL2 and TF2 all dont want to play.

Iam sure my gfx card is ok, as I was running X32 vista last month and played HL2 fine.

Not got a spare card to try.

Jimmy1983 · 4 Nov 2007 at 16:13

Just tried running everest,

everest and rthdribl

First time I tried it pc crashed like when the games do, second I only had rthdribl running for a about 2minutes.

Gutted if its the card, was fine running HL2 few weeks back.

Jimmy1983 · 4 Nov 2007 at 16:40

FrostedNipple said:
see how long it can run this dribble program for if it cant do it forever, then i'm afraid it does sound a lot like a card failure, if so, you need to start looking at warranties and what not

Yeah will do, thanks. Will try to borrow a card off a mate first to check its defo my card.

Brought the card second hand anyway, iam guessing that I wouldn't be able to get a replacement for it from ATI?

Jimmy1983 · 4 Nov 2007 at 19:41

You don't think its a driver issue then?

Jimmy1983 · 11 Nov 2007 at 13:11

Sorry to bring this uo again, but this may come in useful to other users. A friend came round and lend me his X700Pro, tried the games still same problem. So I knew it wasnt a GFX card problem. He closed NOD32 and the vista firewall and both the game ran ok!

Wooop. Dunno why I didnt think of this, surprised no-one off here did either tbh. Ah well its generally a simple thing!

Will leave this card in for the mo, as I want to benchmark the X700Pro with my X1950Pro, whats the best software to do this?