Weird problem with the omega drivers

Blekk · May 21, 2006, 06:15 PM

Hi,

I need help with my system. I have:
P4 2.2Ghz
Asus P4V800D-X motherboard
512 mb Kingston at 400Mhz (2 x 256mb)
ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 256Mb
40Gb IDE HDD
Windows XP (SP2)

Here is a bit of background, about 5 days ago I replaced my old motherboard and memory with the ones in the specs above, I installed CS:S and HL2 etc. and tried them out, but they always quit to desktop and VPU Recover decided my graphics card wasn't responding, every time, this is with Catalyst 6.4 btw.

So I tried older versions by ATI and I still got the VPU Recover error, or if i turned VPU Recover off, it just quit to black screen for about 20 secs then returned to the game. Then I tried FarCry and I got a "memory could not be read" and it was the graphics memory. So i thought there must have been a problem with the actual hardware, but I has been working on my old motherboard for about 10 months. Then the other errors disappeared and I only got the quitting to desktop and VPU Recover error.

So then I started getting, "DirectX not operational" type errors and re-installed them. The board that I have is VIA and thought this may be the problem because my old board was SiS. So i updated the mobo drivers, but to no success.

Finally, I read through some more forums and decided to get these Omega Drivers and the contol centre is awesome btw. I started playing the games that were not working with the ATI drivers, and had no problem atall, I lost a few points when I benchmarked it with 3D Mark but atleast the games worked.

But then I started playing Red Orchestra, and after about 10 minutes all the colours messed up and there were colour gradients on the taskbar when I quit the game, all text was all in bits but I managed to see "Restart" and it restarted fine, it looks fine now, but I don't want this problem to occur again. Any thoughts?

Any help would be appreciated

P.S. Wow I really didn't mean for the post to be this long, sorry for wasting 5 minutes of your life, lol.

Partizan · May 22, 2006, 07:05 AM

My guess is overheating.

Wait for Dyre Straits, he will definitely have the right answer.

Blekk · May 22, 2006, 08:47 AM

I thought it could be overheating but it is running at factory settings just like it was with my old moitherboard and stuff. Oh well.

Dyre Straits · May 22, 2006, 02:17 PM

In my own experience, I have always had problems with any VIA-based board and my ATi video cards. Don't know why, but decided to not get any VIA-based motherboards anymore.

Since you said you replaced the motherboard, I have to ask if you did a NEW Windows installation afterwards or if you simply replaced the motherboard and attempted to let Windows redetect things? It is ESSENTIAL after a motherboard replacement to do a reformat of your hard drive and then a fresh/new Windows installation.

Once you do that, then you need to install all the newest motherboard drivers.

I've got to leave for work now and will check here when I get back home.

Blekk · May 22, 2006, 04:04 PM

Thanks for the post Dyre Straits,

Yes I did re-format the drive and re-install Windows because I read somewhere it was better for it. And by motherboard drivers do you mean chipset drivers from VIA or some other drivers from Asus?

I'm not all that good with motherboards and such. I know quite a bit about most things but this is the first time I have changed a motherboard in an existing system rather than building a new one.

Thanks for the help.

Dyre Straits · May 23, 2006, 02:05 AM

If you just bought your motherboard new, it's quite possible that there are newer motherboard drivers available from ASUS. That should be your one-stop shop for all things related to the motherboard. Even the VIA chipset drivers. If there's a newer BIOS, I'd advise installing that, too. BUT, be sure to follow instructions per ASUS for doing it. I think it can be done via the 'net now.

At any rate, if this problem continues to plague you for another month, I'd seriously consider returning it (as I did) and get a non-VIA board. All three VIA-based boards I've tried over the years caused me more time trying to get things to work right than I spent actually enjoying the system.

Good luck!

Blekk · May 23, 2006, 10:05 AM

Thanks Dyre,

I found a newer BIOS on the website and am downloading down. I have gone onto the driver section for my motherboard, but there are alot of different ones:

5.12.01.5150 which is an audio driver
3.9 which is a LAN driver
For USB which is a USB driver

Should I download them all? Even though they are nothing to do with the problems I have?

Edit: Also I have just tried using EZFlash that is a Asus thing to flash the bios and it reads the floppy itself and updates the BIOS, but with mine it was just stuck on "Reading file" and the motherboard speaker was just doing 3 short beeps, pause, 3 short beeps, pause like that.

So i cant even update it, I looked at the harder way of updating the BIOS but I cannot get the program afudos.exe to put on the floppy because all download sites are at asus.tw and need a username and password for the network.

Extremely annoying.