1900XTX is a POS? maybe? lol help help help

h0wIr0ll48 · Mar 12, 2006, 01:18 PM

well lets see start off by telling you my computer specs...

AMD X2 4800+
Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe
ATI Radeon x1900xtx
1GB Kingston HyperX DDR 400
Windows XP x64 Pro

ok heres the problem any game well the 3 i mostly play work but then they crash... heres the deal NASCAR Racing Season 2003 loads up and works just fine till you get in the car where it has to load the graphics and then the screen starts getting black blocks in it and real statiky and then after about 10seconds the monitor just goes black... and u can still hear all the sounds the game sound be making but you dont see nothing... another game rFactor... mostly same problem but more expected you click drive in the car the textures go dark to normal... dark to normal kinda as if it were goin day to night... but then it locks up not i dont think its the computer becuz i can hit alt+shift+tab and i can end the process but this is really getting annoying the game worked fine when i first played on this machine on friday and i havent done anything but install more programs and now it locks up... could this be drivers or what really need some input on problem.

thanks for reading hope you can help.

AlexM105 · Mar 12, 2006, 01:24 PM

Have you updated the BIOS on your board? You might want to read this just in case:

Asus A8R32-MVP Issues

It could just be a bad card, but try that anyway. ^

h0wIr0ll48 · Mar 12, 2006, 02:00 PM

yea i updated bios to 3011 and still happens its like missing textures in game to so i dunno... i mean the video card cant be bad it plays FEAR just fine without any problems.

Sandok · Mar 12, 2006, 02:07 PM

blame the game and not the card?

h0wIr0ll48 · Mar 12, 2006, 02:24 PM

worked just fine when i first played on card yesterday and now i have nothing but problems game has always worked fine.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Mar 12, 2006, 05:51 PM

What power supply?

h0wIr0ll48 · Mar 12, 2006, 08:57 PM

Antec NeoHE 550

h0wIr0ll48 · Mar 13, 2006, 04:07 PM

ok well ive tried everything its ever game now expect HL2 And Fear and i dunno what the deal is ... its really really anoying... ive heard of problems with the A8R32-MVP with Antec NeoHE 550 but i dont want to go out and buy a new psu if i actually dont have to... i dunno how to explain in it... its about after being in a game for 30sec the screen will start pixelating and makes it look all blocky but if couldnt be video card becuz it works fine on other games? maybe board in the PCI-E socket is goin bad i dunno... any words of wisdom or something would help... lol

cmac · Mar 13, 2006, 05:23 PM

What problems have you heard about A8R32-MVP with Antec NeoHE 550. Both of these are ATI recommended componants for the X1900 cards and Crossfire.

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Originally Posted by h0wIr0ll48

ok well ive tried everything its ever game now expect HL2 And Fear and i dunno what the deal is ... its really really anoying... ive heard of problems with the A8R32-MVP with Antec NeoHE 550 but i dont want to go out and buy a new psu if i actually dont have to... i dunno how to explain in it... its about after being in a game for 30sec the screen will start pixelating and makes it look all blocky but if couldnt be video card becuz it works fine on other games? maybe board in the PCI-E socket is goin bad i dunno... any words of wisdom or something would help... lol

h0wIr0ll48 · Mar 16, 2006, 12:56 AM

ok any game i go into... it works fine for about 30seconds and then all of sudden this starts to happen....

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now i dunno whats happening im not overheating at all i idle at 44 -46C then when i look at temps right when it starts doing it.... its only at 58C. Ive tried 6.3 and 6.2 CCC and still does it have formatted 3times and tryed to fix it with fresh installs but still nothing. ive read about this problem with overheating cards but mine isnt overheating what gives? any game bf2 and hl2 does this also its very puzzling. any info on fixing this problem would be helpful and no its not overclocked everything is at stock setting and my computer specs are as follows...

AMD 64 X2 4800+
A8R32-MVP Deluxe
ATi x1900xtx
Antec NeoHE 550W
1GB Kingston HyperX PC3200
Windows Professional x64 Edt.

Visno · Mar 16, 2006, 01:09 AM

Crossfire is crap.. welcome to the club for wasted $$$

Rokkk · Mar 16, 2006, 03:37 AM

Noticed, you have the Windows Professional x64 Edt. in your sig. Im betting that is the reason, what is causing you that pixelating. EDIT: Im relating here to the ATI x64 driver version / support.

Rokkk · Mar 16, 2006, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Visno

Crossfire is crap.. welcome to the club for wasted $$$

This guy h0wIr0ll48 dont even have a crossfire system huh ?

~~Alien1~~ · Mar 16, 2006, 05:32 AM

Sounds like a faulty card or a driver related problem

dehx · Mar 17, 2006, 12:26 PM

Just to let you know..

I used xp64-bit when I first got my X1900XTX three weeks ago. Ended up installing 32 bit xp pro because I was having wierd problems with games crashing. Counter Strike Source wouldn't even load, and Fear Kept crashing.

The artifacts on your screenshot look like the result of a bad video card that has been overclocked too much. But that is only the case if the screen looks like that no matter what game you have loaded and even on the dekstop. So the card is prolly good.

Install Windows XP 32 bit. Its solved all my problems.

Antoher side note, I don't think its entirely ATIs fault. I think that there are some general bugs with XP 64 bit, my buddy with his 7800GT SLI has problems witht he OS too, and we both went back to 32 bit windows.

My benchmarks between 32 bit and 64 bit windows yielded on average 1 fps difference, so you won't be taking a performance hit.