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Stability Issue in Quake 4

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Shapptastic

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I am having trouble figuring out what the problem is with my system. I recently upgraded the video card from a 9600xt to a geforce 6800 NU. For some reason, in quake 4 and rarely in F.E.A.R., I have been getting frequent lockups. Sometimes i'm lucky in quake and rather than hard crashing the system, it will give me a dll error from an opengl dll. Before the upgrade, I had no issues with the system. I'm betting that its the power supply. I have a 350W noname power supply that I previously used in my old system. I checked all my voltage rails, they all seem normal. In the system, I have one hard drive and one dvd-rw drive hooked up, a pci soundcard, and the vid card. Temperatures seem all ok, cpu hovers around 35C and the vid card is in the high 50s-low 60s at load. The only thing i'm overclocking is the cpu(running at 2.2ghz instead of 1.8) as its a venice core, but i haven't played with the voltage on that. I brought the cpu back to default and still had problems. I don't have any artifacts or bad pixels, so i doubt its the vid card. I didn't reformat after changing the vid card, but i did run drivercleaner on the old ati drivers and installed the newest detonators. Everything else is fairly up to date. Any suggestions or other ways to test to see if its a power related issue?

Thanks,

Shappy
 
I thought it was the PSU when this same thing happened to me, too. I bought a 500watt SLI/PCI-e ready Antec Smartpower, Still got the lockups.

I also have a 6800NU on an nForce3 chipset. I fixed these lockups by disabling AGP Fast write in the Bios. I use Phoenix Award btw. So before you guy buying a new PSU, disable fast write in your bios.

I hope this helps.
 
My complete specs are:

Gigabyte Nforce 3 mobo
1024 megs pc3200
250 GB maxtor hdd
SB Live 5.1
Leadtek Geforce 6800 NU (pipes are not unlocked, but i have had it running unlocked with no artifacts)
NEC 2510a CDRW drive
 
Shapptastic said:
My complete specs are:

Gigabyte Nforce 3 mobo
1024 megs pc3200
250 GB maxtor hdd
SB Live 5.1
Leadtek Geforce 6800 NU (pipes are not unlocked, but i have had it running unlocked with no artifacts)
NEC 2510a CDRW drive
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What PSU? :rolleyes:
 
its a generic 350W supply, i think its hynex or something. The amperage on the 12V line is 15A, which i heard might be an issue.
 
I tried checking the fastwrite option in the bios, it was already off, so i doubt that was the problem. I ordered an Enermax EG425P 420W power supply. Specwise, it seems ok, 2 12V lines with 18A on each versus my one 12V line with 15A. Anyone know anything about it?
 
Shapptastic said:
I tried checking the fastwrite option in the bios, it was already off, so i doubt that was the problem. I ordered an Enermax EG425P 420W power supply. Specwise, it seems ok, 2 12V lines with 18A on each versus my one 12V line with 15A. Anyone know anything about it?
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Max combined +12V@29A. Enough for most any non-SLI rig. ;)

Specs: http://www.enermaxusa.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=75
 
Not that this is entirely relevant, but I bought the power supply, it fixed the problem, quake 4 was running fine, and then i turned the pc off, turned it back on, and a capacitor exploded in the new power supply. RMA time, figures that when i finally spend decent money on a power supply, it breaks within an hour.
 
I had stability problems with Guild Wars - that game crashed my computer (Asus A7V600, Barton 2500), 9800 Pro, 1 Gig memory) frequently.

Tried everything (voltages, chipset drivers etc..)..
then I turned FAST WRITES = ON (!) in BIOS and drivers,
and now my computer is 100% stable !!
 
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