| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 42023 | 2004-01-29 18:51:00 | New Ati Radeon causing major prob's with XP | fergie (424) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 211065 | 2004-01-29 18:51:00 | Hi. I got me a new Radeon 9600XT the other day, all was well until last night, i was playing Call of duty, and it l;ocked up - so i reset. After this problems have kept occuring. I booted into Win XP Pro, was all fine, then about 2 mins later, the pc just restarted. I tried again, same problem. I downloaded the lastest drivers (4.1) from another pc - and installed them, i'm still getiing the same random resets. I booted up in safe mode, and unitsatlled the drivers/card, and i used xp's generic drivers, but it still randomly locks up. I can only last about 2mins before a lock up, sometimes it occurs straight away. What to do? |
fergie (424) | ||
| 211066 | 2004-01-30 03:52:00 | it just keeps getting worse... I get home from skool today, and a few guys said it could be my power supply been overloaded, so i unpluged my dvdrom, cdrw, a Hdd, and 2 fans, still the same thing... so i take out the Radeon and put in a spare GF 4 MX i have lying around, thinking now eveyrthing will be fine.... as soon as windows does its scan of the disks (because of the reboots) the computer reset. so i tryed to start in safe mode - but half way through laoding the drivers in that, it locked up, i tried it again, and it worked though. So, summed up: I got a new Radeon 9600XT, all was fine, played games etc for about 2 days - no probs. One day, playing CoD, it locked up, reset, tried again, same thing. Started windows, surfed net for about 20min, lock up, and now whenever i load windows it crashes. Tried latest drivers... same thing, tried XP generic drivers... lock up, tried GF 4, lock up... Someone please let me no wot i can try to do to fix this problem |
fergie (424) | ||
| 211067 | 2004-01-30 04:00:00 | it doesnt sound like a video card prob, what wattage has your psu got? |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 211068 | 2004-01-30 04:17:00 | 300w - but it came with a pretty cheap case. And plus, my mate was saying that when he had a PSu prob, it was just random as to whne it'd lock up, mine is always fine in the bios/dos, and when scandisk is running, but as soon as XP has loaded, it locks up then, and i've just left my pc running in safe mode for about 20min - no probs |
fergie (424) | ||
| 211069 | 2004-01-30 04:17:00 | It might be the memory on the video card or the video processor. It is a new piece of equipment. Early mortality is fairly common. I'd suspect the new thing rather than the power supply. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 211070 | 2004-01-30 04:33:00 | o man. um, yeah - tried starting in safe mode afteer a rebbot - got thsi messgae: "Windows cannot start, a file is corrupted or deleted: (windows root)\system 32\ntoskrnl.exe" stink... um, so i guess a windows reinstall is looking likely? And if so, the last 3 times i've done a windows repair, i've had to end up formating the hdd, and doing a clean install, as it used to lock up after it had finsihed the install, and was doing the reboot (just before it loaded windows it would freeze and restart) I've tried it 3 times before - all times have resulted in this, so what can i do to avoid it happening this time? thanks |
fergie (424) | ||
| 211071 | 2004-01-30 04:34:00 | considering its doing it with 2 different video cards i doubt its video related. best guess is you have a stuffed psu. elcheapo 300w would be well underpowered for most new pc's. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 211072 | 2004-01-30 04:36:00 | >the last 3 times i've done a windows repair, i've had to end up formating the hdd, and doing a clean install, as it used to lock up after it had finsihed the install, and was doing the reboot (just before it loaded windows it would freeze and restart) I've tried it 3 times before - all times have resulted in this, so what can i do to avoid it happening this time? fix the hardware. if the pc keeps crashing due to faulty hardware then files tend to get corrupt. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 211073 | 2004-01-30 04:36:00 | The computer crashing is likely to cause the file corution on the harddrive. The extra draw on the psu by the new video card may have bougt the psu to the end of its life,i would try another psu. However thats easy for me to say,ive got a stack of the babies. |
metla (154) | ||
| 211074 | 2004-01-30 04:47:00 | ok. so a new psu, and a windows repair... anyone with any thoughts on how to reinstall windows without losing much data? |
fergie (424) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 | |||||