Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256MB - Video screen freezes, monitor turns off (orange light) - Guild Wars Guru archive powered by Guild Wars Legacy

INFERNO2K

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Toronto

Clan of Elders COE

E/Me

09 Aug 2005 at 20:22 - 1

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Hello folks.

I seem to have an annoying yet perpetual problem when playing games using my Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256MB video adapter.

Within playing a game for any number of minutes (happens almost everytime outside piken square with the close by charr) my display will freeze for about five seconds and then the monitor will turn off into powersafe mode (orange light). The only way to resolve is to hit the reset button on the tower. Typically I can hear the sound and music resume in these games as if the only thing that crashed is the video card (which I suppose is the problem).

This occurs with the following tested games running ATI Catalyst drivers 5.6

Counter-Strike Source
Guild Wars
Unreal Tournament 2004

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System Information

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Time of this report: 8/8/2005, 17:50:58

     Machine name: PRIMARY

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)

         Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.

     System Model: A7N8X-X

             BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG

         Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz

             Memory: 1024MB RAM

         Page File: 248MB used, 2213MB available

        Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS

    DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

     DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.2180 32bit Unicode

Appreciate any help whatsoever.

aeroclown

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Louisiana

E/Mo

10 Aug 2005 at 00:37 - 2

This might be a problem Related to ATI's VPU Recover. Try turning this feature off and see what happens. If your sytem entirely crashes are stays frozen then it may be a sign of a GPU Lock up and hardware failure.

If not, it may still be related to VPU Recover as it function is to recover the gpu from a lock up so that you can shutdown and reboot your system. In relation to that it maybe attempting to us an unsupported mode, reolution, or refresh rate, when recovering. A Simple tool to overide the refresh rate might also solve the problem.

Krank

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

W/

10 Aug 2005 at 02:17 - 3

Try running the latest omega drivers
(i have a stealth 9600xt and never have this problem, i also am an avid user of omegas)

www.omegadrivers.net

Killion

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

10 Aug 2005 at 08:52 - 4

Power supply

ElRey

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Outside your window

First Degree [FiR]

W/Rt

10 Aug 2005 at 18:18 - 5

Quote:

Originally Posted by Killion

Power supply

Ok thats just spamming. How can it be the power supply IF the computer is still running.Try your drivers or your video card

Omega Complex

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Arlington, TX

10 Aug 2005 at 18:46 - 6

Please dont jump down peoples throats as the power supply could very well be it. If it cannot support the number of cards and devices Inferno has it will cause any number of problems. How many watts is your power supply? And updating your drivers is the first thing you should try. I would stick with ATI name drivers before trying out the third party Omega drivers.