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Help again please. :(

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I can't get an answer anywhere...

Abit IC7-Max3 MB
2 gigs Corsair XMS 3200Pro
P4 3.2
ATI Radeon 9700Pro 128meg
Western Digital 80gig 7200rpm HD
Creative Audigy 2
Sony CD/CDRW/CDR 8x
Direct X 9.0b
Windows XP Pro Sp 1

I just put this system together. The HD, Radeon, and Audigy are from my old system that worked great....but wanted to upgrade.

I haven't tried doing anything to the bios of this board, ie updating it, because I'm a total newbie at all of this.....from what I've learned in the past few days.

I start up fine. I browse the web, check email etc. BUT, within about 2 mins of starting up 3d Studio Max, Photoshop 6.0, or any game I get "what's in the attached picture".

I've disabled the two USB buses that share the same IRQ (16) with the graphics card, but doesn't help. I've tried every single driver available for the ATI card (and yes I uninstall completely before reinstalling). I've defragged after installing everything with PerfectDisk. I've tried to leave the default 8.1 DirectX files on the machine upon doing a clean install of the OS (reformatted 3 times to see if it was something to do with program installations or something) but still the same result with 9.0 and 8.1 directX.

The graphics card, monitor, everything from the old system worked perfectly now I can't do anything graphically....games, 3dmax, etc.

I've duplicated this outcome with:
Windows XP Pro (base OS, sp1, sp1 + everysingle update)
Every catalyst driver for the ATI card...including Omega versions of the drivers.
DirX 8.1 and 9.0

....which is why I'm thinking it has something to do with my setup and/or mb.

I have the bios set to default and I've tried the turbo and "forgot" the other option for the settings. Turbo just makes my comp hang right before it verifies the DMI. Have to manual reboot with this setting.

Also I should add that I haven't had the graphics card but for maybe 8 months and it's worked fine this entire time. The monitor is 2 months old and works fine. Both worked great in my 1.7 P4 rig and now that I've "upgraded" they don't work. I can leave the computer on and sitting there for a couple of hours everything is fine. But a few minutes after loading up any game or 3d Studio Max it just reverts to the image provided....so I'm guessing it's the video card rather than the monitor. Note that I did play Call of Duty for about an hour Saturday before my entire machine froze and I had to do a reboot. After that is when I think everything went kaput. Could it be something in the settings for the motherboard, the motherboard itself, the video card???? I'm lost here.

I'm going to try to put the card back in my old machine to see if it works tonight but thought I should ask now if anyone has any other ideas.

I've got the money to shell out for a new video card, ATI Radeon 9800XT, but I'd really hate to put it in this machine and it fry on me....like I'm thinking this one has done.

??????
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Picture can be seen here
 
Sounds like the vidio card is overheating.

If left in idle will it revert back to normal.
Is the vidio card fan working.
Is there a dust build up in the vidio card heat sink.

Try running open case with a room fan blowing cold air onto the vidio card.

Luck.......:D
 
Well after the above happens I've let it sit there for about 30 mins and it didn't revert back.....and didn't really want to risk letting it sit there for any longer.

The fan is working.

The card was air'd off before I reinstalled into the new rig and it appeared to be clear of any dust and debris. The air kit I have has a little brush that you can attach to brush and spray (air).

As for the temp in the room, I've got it set at 65 day and night. The case I've got with this has 7 80s running and had the case open since the first time this happened.

Should I be doing something in the Bios maybe....if it is overheating?

One other thing to note is that when this happens I can reboot and when Windows starts back up everything is fine and I can go for hours. When I start up a game or start working in Max with a semi-large scene it will work fine for about 2 to 5 mins (max). Then it happens again. Then I'm forced to find my way to the restart button.

Any ideas, IF it is overheating...why? I had only 4 fans in my other case and I've run it in a warmer room for hours gaming and nothing happened like this.

Thanks again.
 
In the BIOS, try setting the AGP to 8x and turn Fastwrites off and see if that makes any difference.

Also, make sure the vid card is seated properly and the extra power connector is attached to the vid card.
 
In the Bios take fast rewrites off, and change it to 4x. Also see if you change your memory to a more lax settings. In windows you could turn down hardware accleration 1 notch just to see if that helps.
 
something is fishy with the video card
change some of the settings untill its fiexed or until the point that the video card blows up ... then you can RMA the card
 
Are you Mentest86 & Prime95 stable.
If so them its the vid card/ drivers.

Luck....:D
 
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