badsearcher
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Read on if you have a radeon 9800 and it crashes a few seconds whenever you play any 3d game or application.
(short version:Try changing your agp voltage to 15.5 to see if the card will not crash, read on for more details)
On my old mother board (an ecs 640fx-a) I used to have the aforementioned problem, and I was able to make the computer usable and playable by going into directx and disabling agp texture acceleration, which made the computer completely functional for gaming and work EXCEPT the radeon 9800 (xt in my case, but it also failed when I used to have a pro) worked at (rough estimate) 70% full speed. I tried nearly everything mentioned here that I could except for altering the agp voltage, which on my old motherboard was set to an unchangeable default of 15.0 V.
Now I upgraded to a new a-bit V17, and the radeon 9800 xt works perfectly with agp texture acceleration enabled, and I can totally see the difference in performance (though I see that I will need to upgrade from 512 mb ram to 1024) in doom 3.
So I looked into the bios settings for the agp voltage (which is a changeable feature on my motherboard) and I noticed that the agp voltage was set to a default, of not 15.0 V or 16.0 (as some people advised to do on this forum), but it was set to 15.5 V. Now I am practically convinced that this is the root of the problem so many people have been having, (not smartwrite or anything like that) and after classes I will set the voltage to 15 to see whether the old symptoms come back, but until then, if you are having problems and you can change it to 15.5, then try that.
(short version:Try changing your agp voltage to 15.5 to see if the card will not crash, read on for more details)
On my old mother board (an ecs 640fx-a) I used to have the aforementioned problem, and I was able to make the computer usable and playable by going into directx and disabling agp texture acceleration, which made the computer completely functional for gaming and work EXCEPT the radeon 9800 (xt in my case, but it also failed when I used to have a pro) worked at (rough estimate) 70% full speed. I tried nearly everything mentioned here that I could except for altering the agp voltage, which on my old motherboard was set to an unchangeable default of 15.0 V.
Now I upgraded to a new a-bit V17, and the radeon 9800 xt works perfectly with agp texture acceleration enabled, and I can totally see the difference in performance (though I see that I will need to upgrade from 512 mb ram to 1024) in doom 3.
So I looked into the bios settings for the agp voltage (which is a changeable feature on my motherboard) and I noticed that the agp voltage was set to a default, of not 15.0 V or 16.0 (as some people advised to do on this forum), but it was set to 15.5 V. Now I am practically convinced that this is the root of the problem so many people have been having, (not smartwrite or anything like that) and after classes I will set the voltage to 15 to see whether the old symptoms come back, but until then, if you are having problems and you can change it to 15.5, then try that.
