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Sapphire x800 Pro HELP

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rizzen30

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My card is about 8 months old. I've never overclocked it. I had no issues with it until I bought Call of Duty 2. I would play the game for about 10 minutes and then my PC would shut down. I thought .. hey maybe it's just the game .. some kind of VPU error or something. But now it happens with any game I play. I brought the card to my brother's house and put it in his machine (I thought maybe my power supply was bad) and it didnt happen there.
So I took my card back home with one of his extra power supplies .. I put everything in .. and try to play Splinter Cell .. the original one ... 10 minutes later .. my PC shuts down.

I'm at my wits end. Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
Motherboard, Ram timings, those are the things it could be associated with. What are your timings at? What drivers are you using?
 
I have no idea what my RAM timings are at .. I've never changed them. I'm using the latest Cat drivers.
 
If you have more than one stick of ram try them one at a time. I had a bad stick of ram and it would hard crash in games sometimes right away sometimes it would take a while. Also are you getting any funny errors in windows.
 
I have 2 1gig sticks .. so I guess I could try that. Nope .. no funny Windows errors of any kind.
 
Well, try taking one stick out and running a game. If your sticks are made by different manufacturere or even a different revision of smae model it could be a problem. The timings could be different on both and it could cause errors. Download program called CPU-Z it will tell you timings of each stick.
 
Ok .. update ... I no longer think it's the video card .. but now I feel like I'm back at square one. I thought it could be the RAM so I downloaded a memtest program. Halfway through the test the PC shut down ... same as it does during a game. So I thought "cool .. one of the sticks is bad" .. it did it with both sticks .. "ok one of my slots is bad" .. it did it with any combination of sticks and/or slots. Could both sticks be bad??

/sigh
 
air2k5:

I downloaded the program you suggested .. all the timings look to be identical. 3,3,3,8. I have two 1gig sticks of OCZ PC3200 the .. performance series or whatever they are called.
 
rizzen30 said:
air2k5:

I downloaded the program you suggested .. all the timings look to be identical. 3,3,3,8. I have two 1gig sticks of OCZ PC3200 the .. performance series or whatever they are called.
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Do you have another mobo you cna try them on? I would go to your bro's house, put your ram in his pc and run mem test again, I have a feeling your motherboard.
 
Russian said:
Do you have another mobo you cna try them on? I would go to your bro's house, put your ram in his pc and run mem test again, I have a feeling your motherboard.
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I have only the one mobo ... but I think you're right .. it's either the mobo or the CPU. Or I have really bad luck and I somehow got two bad RAM chips. It's weird that this problem wouldn't show up until now .. but I guess that's how it works sometimes. I'm going to go to my bro's house on Saturday and play the swap game and see what happens. Thanks!
 
What sucks is ... even though (or .. even IF) there's nothing wrong with my video card ... It makes no sense to get a board that uses AGP .. so what do I do with my agp x800 Pro?

bleh!
 
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