Hightech Excalibur 9000 CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

tmpearson2003 · Apr 3, 2003, 08:30 PM

All games and screensavers crash or force computer to restart.

MSI KT3 Ultra 2
AMD Athlon XP +2100
512 MB RAM
LG 900b 19" CRT
Hightech Excalibur 9000 64 MB RAM
Latest Catalyst 3.2 Driver Suite
Direct X 9.0

I have contacted Hightech 4 times with no reply. ATI keeps referring me to Hightech. Does anyone else have this card and/or configuration?

***craig5320*** · Apr 3, 2003, 08:32 PM

Which screensaver's? of of them, have you tried another card to test the rest of your system, tried older drivers? disabled hardware acceleration?

tmpearson2003 · Apr 3, 2003, 08:40 PM

All screensavers wich make good use of the card force a reboot. An 8500 works fine on the system. The driver which is recommended from Hightech makes the system stable but it is from November of 2002. Most new games do not display correctly with the old driver. 007 Nightfire, Unreal II, Silent Hill 2...I have the bios aperature set to 128 (the size of the card) and it is a 4X AGP card. Should I slide the hardware exceleration all the way off or just turn it down?

Apr 3, 2003, 08:30 PM	#1
tmpearson2003 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Hightech Excalibur 9000 CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! All games and screensavers crash or force computer to restart. MSI KT3 Ultra 2 AMD Athlon XP +2100 512 MB RAM LG 900b 19" CRT Hightech Excalibur 9000 64 MB RAM Latest Catalyst 3.2 Driver Suite Direct X 9.0 I have contacted Hightech 4 times with no reply. ATI keeps referring me to Hightech. Does anyone else have this card and/or configuration?

Apr 3, 2003, 08:32 PM	#2
*craig5320* DH Administrator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 5,974 Rep Power: 279 System Specs	Which screensaver's? of of them, have you tried another card to test the rest of your system, tried older drivers? disabled hardware acceleration? __________________

Apr 3, 2003, 08:40 PM	#3
tmpearson2003 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	All screensavers wich make good use of the card force a reboot. An 8500 works fine on the system. The driver which is recommended from Hightech makes the system stable but it is from November of 2002. Most new games do not display correctly with the old driver. 007 Nightfire, Unreal II, Silent Hill 2...I have the bios aperature set to 128 (the size of the card) and it is a 4X AGP card. Should I slide the hardware exceleration all the way off or just turn it down?