Strange Radeon 9800 Problem

Yet another one of these

Hey people, after searching the net all day, I came upon this thread describing the same thing that's happening to me.

I'm trying to run Doom 3 (though I have the same issue with Half Life and its various mods), and when I load the game, the screen just goes black. I know it's in the game because I can hear the music, and I can scroll over the buttons with my mouse, but can't see a thing. The monitor light is still green, but there's nothing.

I've tried some of the things mentioned in the thread (short of buying a new video card, which I am not about to do... yet), but nothing seems to be fixing it.

My specs:
Shuttle SN41G2 (nForce2 chipset)
AMD Athlon 2600+
1GB DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 128MB

Any and all suggestions will be helpful. Thanks all.

ditto

I have just fired off my third e-mail to ATI. I have the same problems described by others here.

Except that sometimes, even when not running games, it would just:
1. Reboot
2. Screen go black, Sound On
3. whacky graphix errors (blue dots and lines all over)
4. lockup

It got so bad that I couldn't even get into my PC as it would first show ASCII characters (you know the old smilies etc) and then lock up.

I upgraded to this card because of Doom 3 but haven't been able to even get close to trying it yet.

I know the rest of the PC as it passed all the test with flying colours. Everything works fine with my old GeForce 4 Ti. I have all the latest firmware and drivers for all components.

Hardware:
Intel D875PBZ MoBo
Intel PIV 3.0 GHz
SB 5.1 Live
Thermaltake 480W Ps
1 SATA HD
1 IDE HD
Sony DRU510A DVD Writer
Yamaha F1 CD-RW

If somebody comes across a solution please let us know.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am having the same problem as everyone else here anyone find out whats wrong yet? I just bought a new damn mobo and cpu as well hoping it would fix it, becuase I thought my other mobo went bad or something? Here's what I have:

Asus K8nE Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 1mb cache (CPU FAN = Venus 12)
(2) Kingston DDR Pc4000 @ 400mhz
9800 pro 128 (ATi built)
WD Caviar 80gb 7200rpm 8mb
420w Thermaltake Silent Purepower (w/ Active PFC)
Sound Blaster Audigy

I don't know what to do!??! PLEASE SOMEONE ANYONE HELP ME!!

I am having some of the same similar problems as the ones above only now that I got the 64bit in there it doesnt crash but it still runs games choppy that it shouldnt be. (eg BF:V \ UT2k4 \ Doom 3\ Call of Duty)
Sometimes while playing it will just stop for a minute like a great big chop of some sort.
I also have the same clicks and sound loops as everyone else.
But mostly it chops slightly in games.
Sometimes it almost looks as if my monitor is vibrating and I knows its the video card becuase it will do it on the desktop and in games but no where else!? Anyone have any suggestions or anything at all?

I tried swapping out the ram sticks (good all of em)
I tried swapping out mobos and cpu's (good)
I tried swapping out HD's good
I swapped out my 9800pro with my Geforce 4Ti4800se and the GF 4 ran fine. So I know its my 9800pro
PLEASE HELP ANYONE. This has been driving me nuts for about 1 month now! =\ I have tried everything that everyone else has tried cept the IRQ thing how do I know which ones they are running off of? THX in Advance to everyone

might help you.

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4547.html

ATI is providing an early version of CATALYST 4.9 to users interested in increasing performance of Doom 3.

Thank you =)
I actually heard about those drivers just recently and I if I remember right? The only thing those drivers will really help out is the X800 but it wont do much to the 9800pro 128 =\ Either way I had a bad REALLY bad experience with "beta" a long time ago so I stay away from beta's now. Thanks again for the help though :grinthumb

THANK YOU!!! I hope I can get this thing finally fixed been 1 FREAKIN MONTH now and it still runs like crap! =\ Been pissing me off more and more as the days go by. I have formatted somewhere around 10-14 times now.

Ok lad, everything's falling apart in my box.

I took sound card out cause apparently Audigy's can have problems with Nforce2 chipsets. That managed to stop the clicks and pops in the sound in games, but I still crash out of Far Cry every 5 minutes.
So, not video, not sound. I changed my IRQ's and that didn't do nuffin.

I was reading over on nforcershq.com and I came across a mention that some Kingston double sided RAM can Memtest fine but still crap out when under load. So I am going to do a switch for a while with one of my mates chips and see if that improves any..

This is the ordeal of a lifetime.

I solved the problem on my card. It was the heatsink. ATI has this stupid new system of attaching the heatsink through spring loaded plastic pins instead of screws or something similar. Anyhow one of the pins was out so that when I would put the card in my pc and the heatsink points down after awhile it would loose contact. Not really noticable through the clear side of my case, so I never even thought about it. Anyhow, I pushed the pin into place and voila. Now all is well.

NICE! Buddy But my problem is beyond that =\ I wish thats all it was.......

My appologies, and I have edited my post accordingly, but as you might imagine I am getting quite frustrated with my machine. I will try and refrain from doing so again.

This sounds familiar

I currently have a 9800 pro 128mb but i suppose I am one of the lucky ones without any problems. HOWEVER some people may remember the problems I was having with my 9700pro (gigabyte) WOAH did it take a while to find out the problem. AND yup suprise suprise MartinM had the same problem. I dont know if yours hapenned by the same way mine did but it was gigabyte's fault. Initially the card had a memory problem, they fixed that but they must have forgotten to put one screw in the heatsink (leaving three left) when I found out that it still wasn't working I sent it back and they accused ME!! of unscrewing it and voiding the warranty. The CHEEK of it!!

I can't complain now though cause they gave me a complimentary upgrade. (so they should of) I was without a working computer for over half a year!!


Good luck $oulo with fixing your problem.....i know how it feels





PS: Dont get gigabyte graphics cards. Technical support is real bad

HAHAH Trusty ole Gigabyte, I had a friend who's PSU EXPLODED 3 times before he realized it wasnt the PSU it was the mobo. I also had the same brand mobo as him, and low and behold the mobo was pure crap, Many heating problems even underclocked, It was turning on and off by itself, and finally in the end it COMPLETELY fried my processor, I mean the thing was smoking hardcore. So gigabytes trusty little pos mobo cost me 80$ for the mobo and 175$ for the burnt CPU. I ended up getting an MSI mobo which I love MSI btw much better hardware and bang for the buck. And a new processor. Gigabyte told me the same story, it's not the mobo it's something else, you have bad hardware, even though I didn't after massive checks and hours on end trying to figure this out between me and my friend who actually fixed comp's for a living prior to the military. I will NEVER in my life purchase another gigabyte product EVER they could of at least been somewhat helpful about it.

OOOOO.........OUCH, that must of sucked.

Hey Puzza... im guessing your using an gigabyte board? here is a secret wiht gigabyte boards that most of the bios's had..

when you enter the bios, press CTRL-F1

you may be surprised to see that there are more options available int he setup than were there before

Soooo......Puzzah did you ever fix it? And what was it? PLEASE let me know

No one has a solution to this problem? I jsut got a brand new comp 3 days ago a amd 3200, ASrock k7vt6 motherboard, Audigy 2 zs, 516ram and a power color 9800 se. Im having the same problems I can play a game 5-10 minutes and then bam it freezes with a loop of sound.I tried everything from switching around all my pci slots to reformating 10 times to installing 10 different drivers for the sound card and video card.

Def Check your IRQ ports. I think I just fixed my problem. I went to device managment and for some reason i had a IEEE 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller on the same IRQ I disabled it and now it seems to work. Im not sure what an IEEE is Im guessing it was my Ethernet card. Ill keep you posted if it was this or if the problem arises again.