Now this might sound extremely wierd to you guys, since I have spoken in person to several extreme hardware geeks and they couldn't figure out the problem, I'll ask you. Ok, one year ago, I begun having trouble with my Radeon 9200 video card. A few days before the trouble started I installed a custom driver based on the official one called "Omega". I ran Counter-Strike one morning after that, and got 5 fps. So I changed to the official drivers - same thing. I reinstalled Windows - still the same. I switched to Linux, same. Very low fps on 3D graphics. So I just dealt with this for about 10 months, with even YOUTUBE lagging! So, one day, while both of my parents were gone, I switched all the hardware between me and my dad's computer (we have identical mobo's, and case's, so he wouldn't be able to test the difference). I boot up, and video and 3D graphics works perfectly I was ecstatic to finally be able to play games made in 1998! Then, a couple days later, I (not smartly) booted into Windows again with the same Omega driver, used mIRC for a while (completely oblivious to my huge error), watched a Youtube video, then BAM the computer locked down. I booted back into Linux. Watched the same video, worked. I then ran one of the 3D games I had been playing for the last few days, and, oh crap - 5 fps. So I've been living with this again, having "screwed up" two computers, until this morning I wanted to watch a video on Google Video (on Linux), but when the video began, the entire computer locked up. I booted into Windows, exact same thing. I am REALLY upset, and I would like to know what the F*CK is happening. I'm guessing it's a BIOS problem or something, with the BIOS panicking with the Omega driver and changing some (hidden) settings. But I've tried to revert to defaults but it makes no difference. Any ideas, guys? Thanks a TON, Rictoo
Why don't you try a different video card, It sounds like that one is getting hot for some reason.. Will it do this with a stock card or lower end card ?
radeon 9200s are ooooold school, you want something more along the lines of a geforce 6 series or decent ATi X range, if you are on a budget. Specs of PC? power supply? etc. are you overclocking anything?
The thing is I tried my brother's card who's is supposed to get around 60 fps in counter-strike, but when I used it in MY computer, it is ~2fps. I'm fairly sure it's not a video-card problem, maybe something is wrong with the AGP slot...
