well you probably wouldnt be talking like that if you had the same problem

um, no. I fully understand this is a voluntary forum. No one here is required to help anyone. We strictly help when we can. No one is paid to help.

okay.

well i will transfer my questions to the "hardware" section as apparently no one in the whole wide world knows an answer to the questions posed in this, and many other threads.

i got my processor yesterday when i got back from work.

now i have new questions. sorry for pushing this thread and bumping etc.

but it surely wasnt due to plain boredom. bye.

i also wish good luck to trancecan and the others who've been writing in this thread.
enjoy this endless problem without any answers.

I have a 1200 still running and occasionally (3 times in 4 years) it hangs with that BIOS message as well. All I have to do is confirm the clock frequency and she boots fine. I just assume it's a minor glitch in the oscillator as it starts.

In your case since you can't run the 6600GT, I'd say you are in need of a new CPU and mobo. Trying to save the 1200 seems useless, I think your crashing probs are related to the 1200XP, it just can't run fast enough for the 6600GT GPU (games really start transferring data between the CPU/RAM/GPU).

You said you way OCed your 2600 and killed it, so you know the procedure. Why don't you try to get the 1200 up to say 1400 or 1500, see if that helps. If you kill it, so what it's a 1200! Might as well amuse yourself while you wait for your new CPU/mobo to arrive.

Have you tried Prime95?? It's a probgram to find huge prime numbers, but is used by OCers to define a stable OC setting. If your system can't run Prime95 for 20 minutes, then you've got probs with heating, or RAM, or clock settings etc. Try that.

cheers,

well thanks for your reply. i dont need prime 95 atm to verify if my system is able to be overclocked or not

before going to work today my amd 2700+ reached 83 degrees celsius with a closed case.

it had nothing to do with the 1200+ or the graphicscard. i am pretty sure it was the ram/mobo. i wasnt very nice to my hobo mobo mojo jojo recently o.O

this thread is kinda continued somewhere in the cpu/mobo etc. section.. sounds like a tv-soap to me. :vomit:

enjoy. ^^ next episode: osram is havin a sexual relationship with his handicapped keyboard, f0cks the mother of his best friend.. and quits the relationship with his ex-gf because of her annoying cocaine addiction. 0_x

Hey people.. i also have the same problem since a year or two.. whenever i play wow i get this bsod within 1 or 2 minutes of logging in.. ive done everything in my power to stop it.. windows upgrades.. ati catalyst upgrades.. also the oldest driver i could find (i have an ati radeon x1650 pro 512mb).. i even changed my agp card (before this i had ati radeon 9600xt 256mb).. motherboard.. memory sticks.. and power supply.. but i still seem to get no results... i am attaching a couple of my last minidumps in a zip file along with screenshots of my dxdiag.. if anyone could help me out on this one.. it would be really appreciated..
thnx!

P.S. I have changed the screenshot format to monochrome.. to reduce its size.. so it can fit into the 100kb limit....

Attached Files

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Any BSoD issue can be caused by both hardware and software. In fact poorly written drivers are often the biggest culprits. If you're swapping graphics cards in and out and/or upgrading/downgrading drivers and invaluable tool is driver cleaner pro. You should get this and run it after you have uninstalled the drivers from the windows add/remove programs applet. DCP will clean up the "leftovers".

Try removing as much peripheral hardware as possible and then test again on the basics barebones. If it still crashes suspect overheating problems or faulty memory.

Also as a rule never install hardware that is damaged or is missing components.

actually.. i always use driver cleaner pro to remove my drivers.. and i chngd the last agp card to stop the bsods but it didnt wurk...

Have any of you tried running driver cleaner in safe mode then installing the omega drivers?

Omega drivers for Nvidia cards
http://www.omegadrivers.net/nvidia.php

Omega drivers for ATI
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati.php

Post I found helpful.
http://www.driverheaven.net/windows-...-properly.html

After you run driver cleaner in safe mode to clean the drivers..click tools then click cab cleaner. Clean the Driver.cab and teh SP2.cab files as well. If you have old drivers stored in there windows may load them before you install the newer ones therefore recreating the problem.

I have installed the omega drivers for my ATI card and they work much better than ATI's drivers in my opinion. No problems at all since and games run better than ever.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthrea...524#post612524 Post #15 is the explanation of what I did.

Asus A7N8X-LA mobo
768 MB DDR RAM
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
nForce2 chipset

x1650 Pro 512 MB AGP version

BSODs in ANY 3D game. Always:

STOP 0x0000008E, crash dump points to ati3duag.dll

Always. Oblivion used to run when I had a Radeon 9550 256 MB AGP card, now I don't last 2 minutes outdoors without this crash. I've tried it all...

It appears the card is probably worth more than the mobo/CPU together, so I guess I am upgrading them both.

Almost every BSOD problem mentioned here solved 100%.

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Hope it helps.