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Ati 9800 , VPU error?

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magik20

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I keep getting a VPU error when trying to run games, where the screen goes back (i still hear sound in the background)

i just started getting this error, but it was after i did a motherboard swap (also did a driver update to the latest from ATI)

it started happening soon after the swap.

any help?

edit: heres the error

"VPU Recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands"

seems to be happening in windows as well.
 
I'm having the exact same problem with my 9600 pro. It does it when i'm listening to music in windows media player and it has its little graphic in the background, as well as when i'm running games. Never had the problem till i changed motherboards, did a fresh install of windows, put on service pack 2, and put on the 4.8 drivers, could be any of those problems.

I know its not my powersupply, I've got an antec truepower 380w and its always worked
 
well it helped, alot. It doesn't do it when I'm just in windows now listening to music, but it can't get through aquamark without doing it right away. I'll try really old drives (3.10) and see how they work.
 
Well i fixed it, moved the agp from 8x to 4x. Now wtf, why can't it run in 8x? Thats the stupidest thing i've ever heard of.
 
lol, its only a few months old. But I should probably get a 9800 pro, or screw ATI and get a 5900, never ever had a problem with a nVidia.
 
Heat. Open up your case and point a fan toward the case and see if the error reoccurs. I had a Sapphire 9600Pro that did the same thing, the errors stopped when I had the fan pointed at the case. I solved it by upgrading to a 6800GT. Maybe you need a cooling upgrade. Oh yeah my Pro wasn't overclocked.
 
I don't think it's heat, it never did it before, but I could try it.

And yes, I ran aquamark with the 4x, and it actually went up 100 points :D with the 64 bit processor.

I'll deal with it till the 6800's go down in price.
 
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