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BBA 9700 Pro Problem?

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Grandmasta_J

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I have a friend who has a BBA 9700 Pro. Whenever he plays Far Cry, he can play for around 5 minutes or so, and then his entire system locks up and he has to do a hard reboot. It also does this with other games, the only game he can play without it freezing is Counter-Strike. It's been acting funky like this with 2 different motherboard/CPU/memory combinations.
His specs are:

Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
Gigabyte GA-7N400-L
512 MB PC3200 (Sorry, Don't remember which brand)
He's running Windows 2000 and Catalyst 4.6 drivers.

Thanks for any help you can give. :)
 
I had to put heatsinks on the RAM of my 9700 Pro. I ran it at stock speeds for over a year with no problems, then it started locking up. It didn't happen very much but it would hard lock the system. After putting the sinks on it never did it again.
 
coffee33 said:
Power supply! :cool:
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CS has nothing in the way of graphics so thats what hes not locking up on that game. I bet the other games are newer or have much more graphical content that require the VCard to work hard thus sucking more watts from the PS.
Thats my theory anyhow :D
 
He's used it in 2 different cases with 2 different 350 watt power supplies and had the same problems. On his old KT266, he couldnt even play CS, if that helps any. He's had it for alomst a year and a half, and he's gonna see if ATi will RMA it.
 
Maybe the thermal paste has dried up and isn't providing good contact between the GPU and HSF. Remember that the 9700pro has a shim between the GPU and HSF, so a glob of thermal paste has to be applied inorder to make good contact. If the thermal paste has dried up, then there is a gap between the GPU and HSF. So therefor, the heat won't be transfer into the HSF and the HSF wouldn't be hot at all. Also, if no heat is transfer into the HSF, then your card will overheat and lock up like it did. I would replace the HSF with a VGA silencer or a Zalman cooler.
 
i had trouble playing that game with only 512mb of memory too. this game also doesnt like the 1T ram setting in the bios (i know it sounds weird) but after i changed that, everything went smooth
 
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