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9800PRO lock-up problems

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Bulletbait1

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Ok, I upgraded from a 9500 Pro 128mb to a 9800 Pro 128mb a couple of months ago. Since then, I have had several problems arise with a few games (UT2K4, Max Payne 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Knights of the Old Republic), each of these games will randomly lock-up my PC while playing, normally only in pretty active times during the game. The fact that it normally happened in active times led me to purchase a new name brand powersupply (Thermaltake 480watt) thinking I wasn't providing enough power at peak loads. Well, that did absolutely nothing. I have tried many different drivers, Caty and Omega ver 3.4-Present. None have fixed this issue. If you guys have any ideas I'll glady hear them!

PC Specs:
P4 2.4 GHz "C" overclocked at 3.0 GHz (Yes, I have tried all stock settings, and it actually seemed to make it worse (!))
2x256 MB GeIL DDR PC3500 matched sticks
Philips Acoustic edge sound card
Windows XP Professional w/ current updates
latest DirectX
Currently Omega 4.2 drivers
 
Before each installation of a video card driver, did you uninstall them properly using a tool such as driver cleaner?

http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner

Also don't forget to uninstall omega setup files in the control panel if your going to try out the ati drivers.
 
Actually, many people don't know to do this but for some odd reason motherboard companies still leave "video bios shadow" enabled as default and it causes problems so go to your bios and disable it. disable all the video settings that you know your video card can do because the mother board would have tried to do it for the video card.
 
you might want to try installing the latest INF drivers for the mobo............


just my .6 cents.......

henessey
 
reformat, (if u can)
and install the dx, inf drivers vc drivers in the proper order, then try it from there.
 
thanks for all the suggestions, but I have managed to fix some of the issues by deactivating my sound card and reactivating my onboard sound... must have been a hardware confilct or something... anyways, its not really bad enough now to warrant messing with, and I'd rather have this amount of useability rather than messing things up by tinkering further :D
 
Another thing you might want to try is setting the AGP bus down to 4x. For some reason, my system would crash certain games with the AGP bus set to 8x.

setting it to 4x stopped the crashes. and I still get the exact same 3Dmark2001se score.
 
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