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X800gto Owners Please Read

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A member in my gaming comunity is having bit of trouble with his new card. Knowning the gaming company i know they dont lift a finger to help so i thought i might see what i can do. Basically the problem is found when playing Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. The guy gets an error message followed by a crash to desktop when ever he plays the game, single player, online, lan doesnt make a difference. He upgraded from Ti4400 and ever since then trouble started. We tried playing with graphics settings and BIOS settings but so far nothing worked. He also did mention that some people are having similar problems when it comes to Doom3 or Quake4.

His spec:
1) I have nothing overclocked on my system. Memory, CPU, and video card are all running at stock speeds. For the record here are my specs:
AMD 2500 Barton
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo, BIOS v1009
1GB PC3200 OCZ RAM (2x512MB)
Sapphire ATI X800GTO 256MB (running Catalyst 5.10)
nForce Soundstorm (onboard - using nForce 5.10 drivers)
DX 9.0c

The problem:
" I get sysdumps when the game starts. Sometimes it happens when the loading bar for the map gets to 100%, but most of the time the map starts and when I hit X or space bar to spawn it almost immediately sysdumps and crashes to desktop. I did notice that on a couple of maps I can move around but as soon as I fire a weapon or jump in a vehicle (doesn't matter which one) I get the sysdump. Also, on those few maps where I can move around before the sysdump, the grpahics are all messed up (solid grey sky, the ground at the spawn point is all water even though I know there isn't any water at the spawn point on that map, some artifacts and tearing, etc). After the sysdump there's a dialog box and it always says the exact same thing: "The instruction at '0x00586345' referenced memory at '0x00000000'. The memory could not be 'read'."


Please any help about any problems you had with X800GTO will be welcome.
 
Crash to desktop could be a number of things. I suggest checking a few things in the following order. Its probably old nvidia dirvers messing with ATI card, heat problem or power supply is too weak for the new video card.

1. Try uninstalling all video drivers from safe mode using both ati's and nvidia's driver cleaners. Then reinstall ATI drivers. Might want to try different drivers while your at it. I think its F8 while computer is booting to enter safemode. Its one of the "F#" keys.
2. Check video card and system temps. Video card maybe overheating. Try playing with case open and add a fan blowing on the video card. If it is overheadting you may want to make sure heatsink is securely attacked or reattach heatsink. Or Just RMA it if your not confortable messing with the heatsink.
3. Check voltages on powersupply while running game. If the fluxulate more then 5% you need new power supply or power supply is too weak for new video card. http://mbm.livewiredev.com/download.html
4. Check memory by running memtest with bootup cd. Needs to run a few hours.
http://www.hcidesign.com/memtest/download.html
5. Does this card require you to plug power supply into it? You may just have got unlucky with a bad card. Time for RMA.
 
First off x800GTO is only in PCi-E, the do not make PCI-E mobos for socket A, how did you manage to get taht card for socket A? As for your problem I would play with memory timings, that might be a problem. But as you think it might be video card, clean your drivers and try Cat 5.11 beta, might help.
 
air2k5 said:
First off x800GTO is only in PCi-E, the do not make PCI-E mobos for socket A, how did you manage to get taht card for socket A? As for your problem I would play with memory timings, that might be a problem. But as you think it might be video card, clean your drivers and try Cat 5.11 beta, might help.
They make AGP gto's http://clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A9607181
I was thinking of upgrading my fx5900 with it. I have almost the same system.
2500+ Barton @ 2.4 Ghz ~3400?
Asus Nforce2 Deluxe w/Sound Storm Audio
1 GB Kingston HyperX Ram
fx5900xt @ fx5900 ultra speeds
 
ClearM4, thanx for that but we tryed most of those things just gota do the mem check.

Air2k5 if you read my post from the begining you would know that its not me thats go the problem, i am still stuck on 9800pro.
 
Sorry I did not have much time to read. I would say use driver cleaner to delete your Nforce drivers, then uninstall all ATI software. download the newest Nforce drivers and cat. 5.11 beta, see if that works.
 
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