X1900XTX Problems, Please help

[FerociouS]

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.

 

[FerociouS]

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]

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]

Anyone? :S

 

[FerociouS]

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]

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?

 

[FerociouS]

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.

 

[FerociouS]

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

 

[FerociouS]

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