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Ice Cube problems

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Hello. I'm new at posting on this forum but I've been reading it for quite some time and have been impressed with what I've seen.

I'm having problems with a Chyang Fun Ice Cube IC-VG61, with the Intel 845G/GL chipset and 533mhz bus. I tried to replace a gforce3 video card with a Radeon 9700pro, and while the machine will start up just fine, while in games the game will hang or get severe skewing of the graphics. This will occurr anywhere from within 5 min to a couple hours of starting. I will sometimes get system messages saying that the graphics driver has failed to respond. Drivers have been removed and reinstalled several times as has DX9b and it hasnt solved the problem.

The other two possibilities I've considered are heat and the psu. Ive removed the side panel next to the video card to improve cooling and it still freezes up. Since the 9700pro requires a connection to the psu, is it possible the psu in these rigs arent powerful enough to supply the 9700pro? The psu is a Chyang Fun CWT-220 FXC, 220 watts, and im sure it propriatary to their boxes. The other hardware in the rig are a P4 2.4, a 120g HDD, a floppy, and a Samsung DVD/CD-RW. On-board sound is used.

Has anyone else had problems trying to put this type of card in this box?
 
Hello and welcome to the forums. I don't happen to have experience with this box as I'm geared more towards Shuttles/Aria boxes, but two things are either happening with your machine. The PSU might be the cuprit, but 220watt should be sufficient to run the hardware you've listed.

But I think that your problem has to do with the amount of video drivers you have installed on your machine. Head over to Guru3D and download the Detonator Destroyer proggy and remove all traces of the Nvidia drivers. I bet that your games are messing up due to the previous drivers/driver settings each game is used to running with. Also, if you haven't already, update both your system BIOS as well as your Intel Chipset Drivers for the motherboard. You might even go so far as uninstalling and reinstalling one of the offending games fresh to see if the graphics config files that get set during install are fixed.

Hope this helps,

-E
 
Make sure your not using a Prescott core chip. That along with the video card are taking all the power. Either get a new PS or get a different chip/video card.
 
I have the same case (got it from woot a few weeks back), and i had "issues" with my ATI 9800Pro initially as well. It would start to show artifacts (my favorite was when it stopped rendering the rest of the level in KOTOR, just the characters) after 10-30 minutes of gaming, and regularly lock up a few minutes later.

Turns out that my problem was heat. The heatsink sits about 2mm from the side panel, meaning it gets almost no airflow. I finally figured it out when i took it apart to make sure i had things connected right, and the outside of the side panel (right above the heatsink) was too hot to touch. I run with the side panel off now, and have had no problems since, even after several hours of KOTOR or WC III.

I'd check the heat levels, maybe use MBM to see what the system temp is at. If you're still locking up with the side panel off, then i'd go down the driver route (clean em all out, boot with nothing, install the latest ATI drivers). Good luck.
 
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