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Eyedore · February 11th, 2007, 12:42 PM

Sometimes when i play a 3d game, like Battlefield 2142 or World of Warcraft, my computer hangs. The screen goes black, sometimes i can still hear the ingame sound continue for a few seconds and sometimes i only hear krackles and a beep. The fan of the VGA card goes into high rpm.
When i restart the pc seems to work good, but when i start a 3d game or program (even the 3d app in the catalist cp) the pc locks up very quickly.
Also worth mentioning: When i open the cp and go to ati overdrive, a few tenths of a sec i see the normal screen, the bars to overclock memory and cpu. but then is says "ATI Overdrive capabilities have not been properly initialized yet. Please try again later" I never saw the right screen, so i didn't overclock before.

Things i tried:
- Updating all drivers and the Motherboard bios
- Pulling the plug after a lockup, so there is no power to the pc anymore, then turn it on again.
- feeling the vga card how hot is was > never too hot.
- logging the temperatures of the card with "rivatuner", tey show the temps are normal all the way too.
- Romoving all memory sticks and use one other module.

My Specs:
Asus Mainboard M2R32-MVP
AMD CPU Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 65 Watt 2.2 GHz, 1000 MHz, Boxed
Sapphire VGA Radeon X1950 Pro 256 MB
Corsair TWIN2X 1024A-6400 1024 MB, PC6400, 800 MHz, 5, Kit Of 2
Thermaltake Toughpower 700 Watt ActivePFC, EPS12V, 20/24-pins

Does anyone have any Idea what this can be?

February 11th, 2007, 12:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
Eyedore Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 4	Lockups with my new x1950 pro Sometimes when i play a 3d game, like Battlefield 2142 or World of Warcraft, my computer hangs. The screen goes black, sometimes i can still hear the ingame sound continue for a few seconds and sometimes i only hear krackles and a beep. The fan of the VGA card goes into high rpm. When i restart the pc seems to work good, but when i start a 3d game or program (even the 3d app in the catalist cp) the pc locks up very quickly. Also worth mentioning: When i open the cp and go to ati overdrive, a few tenths of a sec i see the normal screen, the bars to overclock memory and cpu. but then is says "ATI Overdrive capabilities have not been properly initialized yet. Please try again later" I never saw the right screen, so i didn't overclock before. Things i tried: - Updating all drivers and the Motherboard bios - Pulling the plug after a lockup, so there is no power to the pc anymore, then turn it on again. - feeling the vga card how hot is was > never too hot. - logging the temperatures of the card with "rivatuner", tey show the temps are normal all the way too. - Romoving all memory sticks and use one other module. My Specs: Asus Mainboard M2R32-MVP AMD CPU Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 65 Watt 2.2 GHz, 1000 MHz, Boxed Sapphire VGA Radeon X1950 Pro 256 MB Corsair TWIN2X 1024A-6400 1024 MB, PC6400, 800 MHz, 5, Kit Of 2 Thermaltake Toughpower 700 Watt ActivePFC, EPS12V, 20/24-pins Does anyone have any Idea what this can be?