RADEON 9700 PRO AGP Problems

[SiNz]

How do I increase voltage?

How do I up the voltage of my graphics card to 1.6? Please give me the best and EASIEST way possible; thanks! :giddy:

 

[Ea$Y]

There are several software o/c utils u can use.

http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm

The best way to do it though is through your bios menu.

Cheers

 

[Miolnir]

I have an Asus A8V delux board and if your bios is anything like mine, you will need to find the 'voltage' menu, probably under the advanced tab. If yours is like mine you may have automatic overclocking, you will need to set this to manual and then in the APG voltage section which will be one of the options which appear, click on this and set it to 1.6, and you done.

However, having said that, after I did up my voltage my card did stat to overheat and only lasted about 20mins longer in HalfLife2 than it did previously, and I already have pretty good cooling in my case. As I mentioned in my last post, my scores only differed by a couple of points in 3dmark03 and I can tell no difference at all when playing games when I set it to AGP4X. So, if that works for you, I would recommend sticking with that.

 

[Ea$Y]

Yeah thas true

Bigger volts = more heat.
If u can buy a aftermarket vga heatpipe cooler or somethign of that nature
then u can jack the agp v. up a bit

cheers

 

[PreservedSwine]

Increasing voltage over your AGP port will only be a succesfull fix for members who have not updated their bioses in ages. Increasing AGP voltage was a fix a while back (several years) when thew R9700PRO came out. There was a problem with several motherboards not getting enough voltage to the AGP port...the motherboards themselves were a little out of spec, it had nothing to do with the R9700PRO AGP card.
Flashing the motherboard BIOS to the most current was the fix, the voltage increase was a bandaid...

If crashing is not heat related, and your BIOS is current, your best bet is to run your card at AGP 4x, disable fastwrites (all through your BIOS), then disable write combing via your ATI control panel.

If that doesn't work, and you've already updated your BIOS, fresh driver install, fresh chipset drivers, try a clean install of your O/S.

If that doesn't work, you have a hardware issue.

 

[9Volt]

What I meant by CPU Drivers is the Chipset (my Intel P4 3.0Ghz).

Ok I know this is a bit late Sin and by now this issue has probably been long resolved by software or hardware, but I need to point out that you are confusing some terms:
The term CPU means Central Processing Unit and although you are correct that in this case that's your Intel Pentium4 3.0GHz it is not something that requires any drivers...

Chipset: (which is not your CPU) is a permanantly built in part of your...

Motherboard: (the thing that your CPU, RAM, cd/dvd&harddrive cables, and PCI/AGP/PCI-E cards all plug into


When someone says Chipset drivers what they are ussaly refering to is a slew of different drivers for the various chips & controlers on your motherboard.
(like an example would be an Asus brand motherboard which contains an Intel i-875P Chipset.) or they might be refering to other onboard things like the AGP drivers for the AGP controler (also sometimes called GART drivers) or the IDE or SATA Controler drivers (some motherboards use an onboard controler for IDE or SATA cables for your Harddisks and DVD/CDROM drives) or an onboard sound chip, or NIC (Network Interface Controler aka ethernet card/LAN card)

GPU, VPU, 3D Accelerator, AGP card, Graphics card all mean your Video Card
(in this post a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro)

BIOS, means Basic Input/Output System (some ppl inaccurately claim it means Basic Integrated Operating System) it's like the recognizer & boss of ALL the other things that make up your computer. When a motherboard is released it might support and recognize almost all the hardware that is around at the time but after awhile new hardware & drivers are released that sometimes don't work with the original version of BIOS. So updating the BIOS does sometimes fix the problems that nothing else seems to fix but it can be annoying to do unless you have done it a few times or have the instructions printed out ahead of time. Also if the power goes out during a BIOS update you can end up with a dead motherboard so it is the kinda thing you only try after checking for & eliminating ALL other software, hardware or hardware driver issues but the main problem still exists. It's really not that scary but it pays to get it right.

I figure by now you probably know alot of this stuff but in case other people were reading this & then thinking that Chipset was the same thing their CPU I thought I'd clairfy.