X1900XTX Problems, Please help

FerociouS · 25 Apr 2006 at 02:28

Well i recently purchased a ATi X1900XTX and i am running it on a Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Skt 939 with a single Sata II Hitachi Deskstar 160GB, this is my first time using PCI-E i previously used AGP 6800GT, but anyway, the problem is, when i run a game, my graphics card seems to lock or kind of freeze on some of the screens, for example, when i ran BF2 even in the Options menu which is hardly hardware demanding, lets face it, it was freezing constanty after every 5-6 seconds or so, then coming back after 4seconds of being frozen., i noticed that the fan on the Graphics card didnt change speeds as it kept freezing and the temp was reaching late 60'sC, so i downloaded Atitool 0.25 and went in to the fan controls, and set it to "keep on 45C" which is cool enough, fan was spinning quiet fast as i could hear it now, but still exactly the same thing happens, constant freezing, and i Alt tab out of the game, and the temp of the GPU is 45C while is was on frozen screen.
I really dont understand why its doing this, my CPU is a AMD 64 San diego 3700+, been using it for almost 7months now, no problems with it at all, i have 2x1GB corsair XMS RAM also been using it same time as CPU, just the Mobo and Graphics card and Hard drive are new. I am not to familiar with these new high end cards or how te settings work, so any help will be very welcomed. or is it even my graphics card thats causing the problem? i am really confused, thanks for the help guys, sorry about the long post.

gary996 · 25 Apr 2006 at 02:55

any chance you can run another game on it just to see if it does the same?

Puppetmaster · 25 Apr 2006 at 08:35

what powersupply do you have

barney · 25 Apr 2006 at 09:25

Yeah check the rating on the PSU as they are pretty power hungry cards. Also check with another game and try a different set of drivers.
Also try different 3D settings in CCC, Last night i found that if i turn Adaptive AA on in WoW it made the game crash everytime (with 6.4 drivers).

FerociouS · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:57

Vicious said:
what powersupply do you have

i have a Enermax Noisetaker 485W is that enough wattage for one X1900XTX?
it seems to run other games such as CoD2 with no problems.

FerociouS · 25 Apr 2006 at 16:58

barney said:
Yeah check the rating on the PSU as they are pretty power hungry cards. Also check with another game and try a different set of drivers.
Also try different 3D settings in CCC, Last night i found that if i turn Adaptive AA on in WoW it made the game crash everytime (with 6.4 drivers).

thanks for the input mate, i shall give this a try.

FerociouS · 25 Apr 2006 at 18:33

Anyone? :S

Sir Random · 25 Apr 2006 at 19:26

Have you tried different drivers? Does it only happen in 3d applications?

FerociouS · 25 Apr 2006 at 19:39

Sir Random said:
Have you tried different drivers? Does it only happen in 3d applications?

which driver would you suggest, i have only tried the one that came on the catalyst CD which is 6.4 i think, very recent one anyway, yes it only seems to happen in 3D applications.

FerociouS · 25 Apr 2006 at 21:10

Do you think it could be my PSU, i get the slight feeling 485W might not be a tad less to unleash the power of X1900XTX, anyone have any experiece using X1900XTX with 485W PSU?

Puppetmaster · 25 Apr 2006 at 22:38

using a new power 480w here

i was experiecing crashes in games, lowered my cpu overclock from 2.6 to 2.5 (stock 2.0) and everythings fine, system used to be stable before i put the xtx in, but then it used to fail prime 90% of the time so guess it wasnt

FerociouS · 26 Apr 2006 at 02:00

Vicious said:
using a new power 480w here

i was experiecing crashes in games, lowered my cpu overclock from 2.6 to 2.5 (stock 2.0) and everythings fine, system used to be stable before i put the xtx in, but then it used to fail prime 90% of the time so guess it wasnt

i am running everything on stock, no overclocking at all, still freezes

it doesnt crash though, which is weird, just freezes for like 4seconds.

fornowagain · 26 Apr 2006 at 02:22

FerociouS said:
i am running everything on stock, no overclocking at all, still freezes it doesnt crash though, which is weird, just freezes for like 4seconds.

The only way to tell for sure if its the PSU is to measure the rails under load. Get a multimeter and connect it to a molex and see what the 12v output is doing when loaded. If its dropping much below 11.8 think about an upgrade.

FerociouS · 26 Apr 2006 at 04:35

fornowagain said:
The only way to tell for sure if its the PSU is to measure the rails under load. Get a multimeter and connect it to a molex and see what the 12v output is doing when loaded. If its dropping much below 11.8 think about an upgrade.

thanks for the input, but where would i get such things, sorry im a PSU newbie, lol

Greeny132 · 26 Apr 2006 at 04:44

cant see it being your power supply unless you have a load of hard drives or cd drives, try updating to the latest drivers for your mobo, sound card, and of course graphics card

Sweetloaf · 26 Apr 2006 at 04:53

Did you completely remove the Nvidia drivers before installing your ATI card?

i.e by running driver cleaner or doing a fresh XP install?

-edit..ignore me, just noticed that you've gone AGP-PCIE new build then?...it's early

FerociouS · 26 Apr 2006 at 05:25

Sweetloaf said:
Did you completely remove the Nvidia drivers before installing your ATI card?

i.e by running driver cleaner or doing a fresh XP install?

-edit..ignore me, just noticed that you've gone AGP-PCIE new build then?...it's early

lol, no prob, thanks for the reply anyhow

Legionaire68 · 27 Apr 2006 at 10:20

If other games are O.K try uninstalling Battlefield 2 and reinstalling, me and a couple of mates play and to be honest its a shocking game for problems, every new patch seems to cause new problems. Good luck
My X1900xt is clocked over xt-x speeds on a 460v Akasa so it may not be your PSU, is it dual 12v rail?

Stax10 · 27 Apr 2006 at 11:26

Hi mate

I had the exact same problem as this with a 7800GTX Extreme Edition about 4 months ago. The system spec was

AMD 3700+
Asus A8N-SLi Premium
7800GTX Extreme Edition
Seasonic S12-600Watt PSU
1Gb OCZ 3500 RAM
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2

The GPU would freeze exactly the same as yours is doing, on any game I played, and also any other application. I was tearing my hair out trying to fix the problem. I reinstalled the OS and tried different nVidia drivers, anything I could think of really, to no effect.
I then replaced the SB2 sound card with an X-FI Platinum, I never had the freezing problem again! I now have a Powercolor 1900XT-X GPU, and this works fine as well, the rest of the system is the same.

All I can put this down to was a clash with the creative drivers (for the Sound Blaster 2 card) and the graphics drivers, but I have no concrete proof other than the problem disappeared when I unistalled the Sound Blaster 2. I dont know if you are using a sound card or the mobo's onboard audio, however I thought this info might be of some help.
Regards Stax

McRod · 27 Apr 2006 at 13:05

Ferocious,

Have you read the thread here ?

Many of us had the same problem with the same set up you have and i`m happy to report that the bios update cured the problem.