SORRY FOR THE REPOST, i've put this up in the technical support forum as well, but since it's a video related issue, i'd like to please ask for help here as well. Please don't be mad; if you dont' feel like it belongs here, feel free to skip over the post
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Hello,
Here are my current specs:
X2 3600+ Brisbane
Asus M2N-E Mobo
Asus x1950pro 256 PCIE
Seagate 320gb 7200.1 SATA
Kingston Value Ram DDR2 667 - 2 x 1GB and 2 x 512MB
400w Generic PSU that came with this generic black midtower case.
I seem to be having a big problem with my new Asus x1950pro PCIE card. I've tried it out with 6 games total now:
C&C 3 Tiberium Wars Demo
Lord of the Rings Online
FEAR
FarCry
World of Warcraft - This is the only game i can go and play for hours with no problems happening whatsoever.
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes - actually this game works fine as well.. i just finished playing it for about 3 hours today midnight till 3am (just now)
Basically i'll just describe the problem in detail. I boot up the game and it runs fine..... for about 10 minutes or sometimes even less. While in the middle of the game, no matter what i'm doing - menu screen, loading screen, gameplay - the monitor will suddenly lose signal and flashes to a black screen. I can still hear sound over my speakers for about a good 10 seconds, and then the entire system will then automatically reboot itself.
Upon reentering windows i will get a box that pops up saying that the x1950 display driver had an error and got stuck in an infinite loop trying to rewrite a thread.
Now a couple more details i will add:
1) i've tried using Catalyst 6.12, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4. All these different drivers yielded the same result.
2) i've tried with the system overclocked (10% OC only) and with the system running stock.
3) I've tried playing around with the RAM hoping it would be something up with my RAM. Ran Memtest and everything passed. I've tried removing the two sticks of 512 ram, and let it run at 2gb total. Same result as letting the system run at 3gb's total.
4) this problem has NEVER happened while i've played World of Warcraft. I've already once logged in over 5+ hours at once in WoW and not a single crash. This problem always happens within the first 15 minutes of all the other games i've listed above. (edit: i've also confirmed that this problem doesn't happen during playing Vanguard: saga of heroes. So now it's 2 games that work.. and everything else so far.. doesn't)
5) I'm not sure what kind of power is running through my PSU on the 12V rail.. i'm not really sure what i'm looking for on the sticker, if someone could please tell me.. maybe that's what's causing it to crash.
If this video card were defective... would it not crash for any other game i tried to run on it? Why is it that only WoW will work perfectly and the others not? At first I thought it was a driver issue, but as you can see, i've rolled back to the previous 4 revisions of the Catalyst drivers all with the same result.
I really don't want to have to RMA this card to ASUS (i know it will take forever to get back to me), and so i'm hoping that one of you experts is able to point me in the right direction. I would really appreciate it if someone could give me advice on what to do. Maybe someone else had this exact same problem and found a remedy? I can only hope. I really want to pick up C&C 3, supreme commander and Company of heroes, but i dont' want to spend that money on games if i can't even play them. If worse comes to worse.. it's time for a 8800gts
But anyways, thanks for reading, thank you in advance.
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Hello,
Here are my current specs:
X2 3600+ Brisbane
Asus M2N-E Mobo
Asus x1950pro 256 PCIE
Seagate 320gb 7200.1 SATA
Kingston Value Ram DDR2 667 - 2 x 1GB and 2 x 512MB
400w Generic PSU that came with this generic black midtower case.
I seem to be having a big problem with my new Asus x1950pro PCIE card. I've tried it out with 6 games total now:
C&C 3 Tiberium Wars Demo
Lord of the Rings Online
FEAR
FarCry
World of Warcraft - This is the only game i can go and play for hours with no problems happening whatsoever.
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes - actually this game works fine as well.. i just finished playing it for about 3 hours today midnight till 3am (just now)
Basically i'll just describe the problem in detail. I boot up the game and it runs fine..... for about 10 minutes or sometimes even less. While in the middle of the game, no matter what i'm doing - menu screen, loading screen, gameplay - the monitor will suddenly lose signal and flashes to a black screen. I can still hear sound over my speakers for about a good 10 seconds, and then the entire system will then automatically reboot itself.
Upon reentering windows i will get a box that pops up saying that the x1950 display driver had an error and got stuck in an infinite loop trying to rewrite a thread.
Now a couple more details i will add:
1) i've tried using Catalyst 6.12, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4. All these different drivers yielded the same result.
2) i've tried with the system overclocked (10% OC only) and with the system running stock.
3) I've tried playing around with the RAM hoping it would be something up with my RAM. Ran Memtest and everything passed. I've tried removing the two sticks of 512 ram, and let it run at 2gb total. Same result as letting the system run at 3gb's total.
4) this problem has NEVER happened while i've played World of Warcraft. I've already once logged in over 5+ hours at once in WoW and not a single crash. This problem always happens within the first 15 minutes of all the other games i've listed above. (edit: i've also confirmed that this problem doesn't happen during playing Vanguard: saga of heroes. So now it's 2 games that work.. and everything else so far.. doesn't)
5) I'm not sure what kind of power is running through my PSU on the 12V rail.. i'm not really sure what i'm looking for on the sticker, if someone could please tell me.. maybe that's what's causing it to crash.
If this video card were defective... would it not crash for any other game i tried to run on it? Why is it that only WoW will work perfectly and the others not? At first I thought it was a driver issue, but as you can see, i've rolled back to the previous 4 revisions of the Catalyst drivers all with the same result.
I really don't want to have to RMA this card to ASUS (i know it will take forever to get back to me), and so i'm hoping that one of you experts is able to point me in the right direction. I would really appreciate it if someone could give me advice on what to do. Maybe someone else had this exact same problem and found a remedy? I can only hope. I really want to pick up C&C 3, supreme commander and Company of heroes, but i dont' want to spend that money on games if i can't even play them. If worse comes to worse.. it's time for a 8800gts
But anyways, thanks for reading, thank you in advance.