All-in-wonder 9800Pro locking up

[painball]

Lately I've been trying to use the wonderful features of my All-in-Wonder ATI 9800. If you are familiar with the card, it has a few ports to use for audio line out, video in, audio in, etc. I normally don't use them, though.

To cut to the chase, every time I try to use video in and all of the other glorious features, the card locks up. I don't think the whole PC locks up, but it's hard to tell because the video out to the monitor just freezes. However, when I boot the PC up with the stuff plugged in, it gives me too long beeps as opposed to one, and never fully boots up.

This problem isn't too troublesome as I can get the PC to boot up after a few tries, but as of now I'm trying to do some video editing and it becomes quite annoying after a while.

My only guess as to why this is happening is the PSU. It's 450W though and works perfectly without utilizing the video card to it's full potential.

System specs:
A7N8X mobo
Coolmax 450W PSU
AMD Barton 2500+ (1.8GHz)
1 GB DDR400 RAM
80GB WesternDigital HDD
Soundblaster PCI card
Linksys Wireless card
Firewire card
(listed nearly everything in the case that they could affect the PSU)

 

[ray4389]

What about your cooling. The extra stuff does put mroe strain on the card.

 

[painball]

2 Stock case fans. I really need to buy a few Panaflo's though. My fans now occasionaly make a really annoying buzzing sound, which can't be good. But do you think temps could be the problem? The PC locks up immediately after plugging in the cables, not a few minutes after the case heats up.

 

[ray4389]

Have you tried newer drivers? Go to the ATI website and get the newest drivers. I don't think its a thermal problem for you. I doubt it's the PSU. I run mine with a 350 which is really leika 400/450 watt. Antecs undertstate how much wattage they are hence the True Power thing. But you should begetting enought true power outa yours.

I say either you have a botched card or drivers. Check the cards capaciters too. If one is messed up you may hae hit it or sumthin. Just check it out. If not you can RMA it.