help or to point at and laugh at!!!! cheers

simonp1

here goes

Ibought this set up a few weeks ago and booted up fine,

301418 Fortron/Source Powersupply ATX 400W rev2
120mm, SATA Special Edition, 24pin

Sapphire Radeon X800XL 256MB GDDR3
PCI-Express,Tv-Out, DVI-I, Full-Retail

2x Crucial PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB CL3 5ns
Unbuffered, Non-parity, 2.5V, 64Meg x 64

Abit Fatal1ty AN8, nForce4 Ultra, Socket
-939,ATX,S-ATA,GbLAN,Firewire,PCI-Ex16

Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA
8MB 10000RPM

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 2.2GHz Socket
939, 1MB, BOXED w/fan

The only problem arises when playing battlefield2 and to a lesser degree halflife2 both on full settings at a res of 1024x798@75Hz

Sometimes reboots during loading of BF2 but mostly crashes to desktop after a few minutes of play.

There is 1.5G memory install 2 modules are the following
2x Crucial PC3200 DDR-DIMM 512MB CL3 5ns
Unbuffered, Non-parity, 2.5V, 64Meg x 64

and another, same size and speed but unbranded stuff.
I took out the unbranded module but same thing happens.

attached are some captures of CPU-z

Running xp pro sp2
all latest drivers and firmware have been installed
Its a pain when you spend lots of time any money all for the sake
of FPS and realism in games, Sad really!!!

Last thing when it doesn't crash it gives around the 30-40 fps

Clock Information
BIOS VPU 400.00
Current VPU 398.25
BIOS MEM 490.00
Current MEM 492.75

Monitor/Panel: Dell P991
Adapter: RADEON X800 Series (Omega 2.6.53)
Adapter: RADEON X800 Series Secondary (Omega 2.6.53)

And I must get normal CPU and RAM settings too

Gilgamesh

afaik, they fixed sme issues wit BF2 and the XL cards in the Catalyst 5.8 what was released yesterday

simonp1

Will give it a try tonight
thanks

WizZard

See, lot's of help! Also you are using non-standard drivers (Omega). Try with the official Catalyst drivers first. I have often had beta/tweaked drivers crash my machine during games etc.

Inquitus

Also I note you have Overclocked yer X2 to 216mhz FSB, whilst your RAM is non-branded PC-3200. That could cause issues too.

Inqui

unkel

Inquitus wrote:

Also I note you have Overclocked yer X2 to 216mhz FSB, whilst your RAM is non-branded PC-3200. That could cause issues too.

It happens when he takes out the unbranded stick too. I agree with you do though - my first candidate to point the finger at is that the RAM can't take the overclock

Switch back to 200FSB and report back here

WizZard

Inquitus wrote:

Also I note you have Overclocked yer X2 to 216mhz FSB, whilst your RAM is non-branded PC-3200. That could cause issues too.

Inqui

/me kicks myself

I didn't notice that. I agree with both Inquitus and unkel, drop back to stock and see what happens.

terbo

simonp1 wrote:

Will give it a try tonight
thanks

Hi.
I had similar problems with my x800xt pe, it turnes out that the motherboard used intel chipset, if your does go to the intel site and download the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard, the windows installer is very handy.
also make sure you have .net framework installed as this causes crashes to desktop if not installed.
im no techie but i hope it helps

simonp1

thanks guys

Ill try that tonight, its overclocked with a utility that came with the motherboard OC Guru. I havent come to grips with overclocking really just used this utility.

gline

"Sometimes reboots during loading of BF2 but mostly crashes to desktop after a few minutes of play"


usually when this happens to me it is graphics card overheating, either that or a non stable overclock on gfx or cpu

simonp1

Temps top 71c on the gfx and system 55c can't remember what the cpu hits I'll check tonight again they all seem normal enough but I might be wrong.

gline

simonp1 wrote:

Temps top 71c on the gfx and system 55c can't remember what the cpu hits I'll check tonight again they all seem normal enough but I might be wrong.

hmm.. 71 a bit high

BrokenArrows

71c is very high for a Desktop. My laptop gpu peaks at 71-72c when playing gpu intensive games but laptop gpu's are made to handle the heat.

Make sure that your gpu fan is running properly.

gline

you arent using the stock x800 cooler are u??? if so stop right now and rip that cooler off and put at minimum an artic cooler on it. the stock x800 coolers are CRAP to say the least

po0k

terbo wrote:

Hi.
I had similar problems with my x800xt pe, it turnes out that the motherboard used intel chipset, if your does go to the intel site and download the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard, the windows installer is very handy.
also make sure you have .net framework installed as this causes crashes to desktop if not installed.
im no techie but i hope it helps

Intel don't make chipsets for AMD processors, unless it was some I/O logic slapped on the side.

simonp1

Thanks to all for the advice seems itwas a software issue ati tray tools and the uguru that came in the bundle. Running ccc 5.8 driver and just uguru for overclocking and all seems well no more crashing to desktop or reboots.

WizZard

Glad to hear you've got it fixed!

gline

well at least it turned out to be software and not hardware, that would have been a pain in the ass

simonp1

Jumped the gun with the card, RMA it now crashes constantly no matter what game, even FlightCombat Sim 03 wont load. Anyway waiting for RMA from Komplett

Simon

gline

simonp1 wrote:

Jumped the gun with the card, RMA it now crashes constantly no matter what game, even FlightCombat Sim 03 wont load. Anyway waiting for RMA from Komplett

Simon

sorry to hear that man, that suks.

jesus_thats_gre

power supply?

simonp1

Could be but according to Komplett when I bought the parts that power supply was ok