Hello. I have problems with my Sapphire Ati Radeon HD2600 Pro AGP videocard. Here is the config I have: - Asus K8-N motherboard - AMD Sempron 3000+ CPU @ 2 GHz - 1 GB Kingmax DDR RAM @ 400 MHz - Maxtor 160+30 GB HDD - Netgear WG311v2 WLAN card - Creative Soundblaster PCI 128 soundcard - Chieftech 440W (or 410, I'm not sure) power supply So, my problem is this: When my brother tries to play Call of Duty 4, it freezes out after ~10 minutes. The screen freezes, the sound still plays, then the screen goes black - the monitor stops getting pictures so it goes off, then the sound goes in an endless loop. Same goes with Need For Speed Underground 2, the other game I was playing. It freezes out after maybe 15-30 minutes. It varies... yesterday it took about 1.5 hours to freeze. Now, you would think it's the driver? Right now it's version 2008.1201.1504.27008 of CCC installed. Tried separate drivers, Omega drivers as well (with it, Windows said "Unknown")... Windows? Happened under both SP3 and SP2 My bet are these: - The soundcard. Who knows, it's old and one of my classmates' soundcard went wrong with the same symptomes (sometimes my Windows freezes for a few seconds - I realised it under Media Player) - but that leads to my second one: The winchester. It could freeze the whole computer, but sometimes I could exit out to Windows, then it says "The Ati2dvag driver is damaged" or something like that... - The third bet is the mother board. It has NVidia chipset on it, and the videocard is ATI-related. You get the idea. These two just doesn't support each other. - Last bet: weak power supply...? Both games were running okay with my previous videocard, the Inno3D GeForce 7300GT 256MB AGP. I'd like to ask your help, maybe you could help me with this problem. Thanks in advance!
Hi Chimera I'd say the power supply is a good possibility, as the power requirements got higher when you changed the card. Sound card seems unlikely but you could try removing it and using the on-board sound card. what are the temps like on the video card, any chance of it overheating? have tried updating to the latest drivers etc?
The card doesn't overheat. It didn't go above 60 C°. Isn't overclocked. Right now it's the 2008 Dec 18 488 hotfix is installed, the latest one. Tomorrow, we're going to try a stronger power supply and another config as well. If it crashes with the p.s., then it has to be either drivers (unlikely), the soundcard (unlikely x2), or the chipset doesn't support the videocard... it's older, so who knows. And if it crashes in the other config, then it HAS to be the card itself.
Tried a 450W power supply: froze Tried in another config (Abit NF7 mobo, others forgot): froze It HAS to be the nForce chipset. Both motherboards have that... so, this has to be the problem why I cannot use it. Ah well, I hope I get rid of it ASAP.
