Hi,
I got a Sapphire Radeon 9600 PRO Atlantis 256Mb DDR Memory.
Recently I have changed motherboards from my old SiS one to a Asus Via board aswell as upgrading my memory and PSU. But I have been getting VPU Recover errors and the graphics card sometimes just crashes and I have to restart.
So I changed my Catalyst 6.4 drivers to an older version, because that is what someone else did to correct the problem, but it still kept happening. After this I posted on forums and many people said it could be overheating.
But then the 6.5 Catalyst Drivers came out and when no game crashed I thought it was better. But then it started to happen again, So has anyone got any ideas? Is there an easy way to replace the fan? Are there easier ways to lower temperature of the graphics card? Where can I send it if it is faulty? How do you find out if your warranty is still ok?
I know there are alot of questions but any reply is appreciated.
P.S. Oh yeah, it isn't overclocked, running on factory settings.
Motherboard: Asus P4V800D-X
CPU: P4 2.2Ghz
RAM: 2 x Kingston 256Mb DDR 400Mhz
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Atlantis 256Mb
PSU: 550W 20+4 pin
Monitor (connection used): Plug and Play 17" HP Pavilion m703
Hard drives: Maxtor IDE 40Gb
Optical Drives: DVD drive and CD-RW drive
Additional PCI cards: Firewire card
Number of fans present:1 80mm case fan, 1 processor fan, PSU fan
Video Card Drivers in Use: ATI Catalyst 6.5 XP
I got a Sapphire Radeon 9600 PRO Atlantis 256Mb DDR Memory.
Recently I have changed motherboards from my old SiS one to a Asus Via board aswell as upgrading my memory and PSU. But I have been getting VPU Recover errors and the graphics card sometimes just crashes and I have to restart.
So I changed my Catalyst 6.4 drivers to an older version, because that is what someone else did to correct the problem, but it still kept happening. After this I posted on forums and many people said it could be overheating.
But then the 6.5 Catalyst Drivers came out and when no game crashed I thought it was better. But then it started to happen again, So has anyone got any ideas? Is there an easy way to replace the fan? Are there easier ways to lower temperature of the graphics card? Where can I send it if it is faulty? How do you find out if your warranty is still ok?
I know there are alot of questions but any reply is appreciated.
P.S. Oh yeah, it isn't overclocked, running on factory settings.
Motherboard: Asus P4V800D-X
CPU: P4 2.2Ghz
RAM: 2 x Kingston 256Mb DDR 400Mhz
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Atlantis 256Mb
PSU: 550W 20+4 pin
Monitor (connection used): Plug and Play 17" HP Pavilion m703
Hard drives: Maxtor IDE 40Gb
Optical Drives: DVD drive and CD-RW drive
Additional PCI cards: Firewire card
Number of fans present:1 80mm case fan, 1 processor fan, PSU fan
Video Card Drivers in Use: ATI Catalyst 6.5 XP