Odd Behaviour with a Radeon 9700

AT_curiousB · Feb 3, 2003, 09:04 AM

I really need your guys help here.

I Purchased a new R9700(not pro) and installed it on my machine, replacing an R8500.

Everything appeared to go well, but just to test it out I installed 3Dmark 2001se and ran it through. ( 10700 marks )

Now the fun begins,

My System,

AMD 2000+XP
MSI KT3Ultra2 MoBo ( Nothing overclocked )
1 GIG PC 266 DDR Ram @Cas2.5
SB live5.1 (newest drivers installed)
Running Win XP SP1
Newest VIA 4in1 (Hyperion 4.45)
VIa Latency patch v0.19
Cat 3.0 Drivers (updated ones )
DX 9

whilst running through 3DMark, I will often hear the bios emit a single beep, at various stages of the tests, and in some of the tests there it will beep more then once ( by that I mean beep, pause, beep, pause beep maybe up to about 5 single beeps ). However it will run through the whole program, and the score is real, without crashing, but my system will hard lock on ending the program.

I have fast writes enabled in both the bios and the smartgart.

Any ideas, or suggestions, or better still solutions would be much appreciated, if any more info is required just ask.

Edit, just to make sure that there would be no conflicts with any previos drivers, I reformated C and re-installed XP.

Junk · Feb 3, 2003, 09:34 AM

Try disabling fast writes everywhere..see if that works.

***Zardon*** · Feb 3, 2003, 09:53 AM

whats your power supply?

UberLord · Feb 3, 2003, 10:12 AM

Do you still need to run the latency patch?

AT_curiousB · Feb 3, 2003, 10:25 AM

Junk, I did disable all of the fast writes, all it did was to lower the 3Dmark score to about 7000.

Zar, power supply is 400W

Uber, dunno really, just always install it, if you know different I would stand being corrected.

Edit,

updated the MoBo bios to newest using live update, the beeping is not as prolific as before but still present, now getting a continuous beep throughout the first fill rate test.

UberLord · Feb 3, 2003, 11:37 AM

I'd try a clean install without the latency patch. What are your temps btw?

AT_curiousB · Feb 3, 2003, 02:23 PM

Many thanks to those who responded, problem is now resolved.

Zar, you hit the nail on the head, the PSU was knackered. I replaced the 400W unit with a new one and there are no more beeps, electrician friend of mine tested the old unit and pronounced it to be "Flaky", at best.

11, 000 3DMark points now, with no overclocking. Would it be best to activate fast writes or to leave them off?

Thanks again

shuki · Feb 3, 2003, 03:13 PM

off IMO

Necrosis · Feb 3, 2003, 03:14 PM

If your not experiencing any problems with it at all then leave it on. However, it seems with 8x boards it's better to leave it off.