Ok, got the new X850 Pro card in my system. Having issues with it rebooting the pc in certain games though (I haven't bothered with OCing it yet since I wanted to see what the frame rates were but haven't gotten that far yet). Windows, by itself will stay running for a couple of days but.... Here's some of the games and what they were doing.

Thief 3: plays for about 15-20 minutes, reboot.
MoH Pacific Assault: goes to main menu fine, loading any level or starting new game, reboot.
CoD 2 depends: sometimes play for about 10-15 and other times, loading mission and reboot.
MS Combat Flight Sim: plays just fine- for hours.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3: plays for hours.

All of these played fine with my 9600 Pro just a little choppy in some parts.

That's all I've tried playin so far.

Ok, this is what I've done so far. Read Sig for system specs. I've updated the VIA chipset 4-in-1 (KT600 chipset) drivers to last on VIA's site, flashed the bios to the most current bios for the board (8-11-2004), uninstalled Omega drivers, reinstalled them, then uninstalled them and installed ATI's Cat 6.6, then uninstalled and installed Cat 6.7 (then new one's that just came out). Turned off AGP Fastwrite in the bios with AGP arpiture (?) set to 128. Still reboots though.

Ok, since updating the Bios and the VIA chipset drivers, CoD 2 and Thief 3 play with out rebooting. But MoD is worse. Doesn't even get to the menu screen now and it reboots. Since I've only got a 430watt power supply, I thought it might be power issue so I unplugged both cd rom drives (i've got no-cd crack for MoH) and took out the sound card thinking that it was pulling to much juice but still reboots. The only thing in the drivers that I have changed is forcing AA to 4X and turning off VSync. With the Bios update and the VIA drivers making a difference in some of the games, I'm wondering if it's not my mobo causing issues with it somehow. Any ideas?


Ok, take that back, after about 4 hours of playing Thief, damn thing rebooted....again. FarCry won't even load, gets half way through starting a mission, reb bar is going across the bottom of the screen, gets half way and Reboots (intro movie plays just fine and looks pretty good to). Not sure if this is a motherboard issue or windows issue or the card itself. ATI's website said requires a 350 watt PS and with not having much installed, I thought I'd be ok with having a 430watt. I don't know where to go with this, but it's getting irritating as hell. CPU is sitting around 45C (113 degrees), motherboard is sitting at 36C (97 degrees) and HD is at 33C (91 degrees) so I don't think it's that (that's right after quiting Thief after an hour of play (since it's the only game that seems to be working somewhat).

Thing is, when it runs, it runs smooth as silk. Thief has never looked or played smoother. CoD 2 looks sweet and I can't imagine what FarCry, America's Army, or MoH is going to look like....Once I can get the damn thing to run right. I'm going to bed, if anyone's got any ideas, I'd love to hear them. Might just end up reloading windows this weekend and see if that helps if nothing else does.

ah give these drivers a shot mate

Omega Drivers 6.03 not the newest but they surely rock!
http://www.treiberupdate.de/treiber-download/z-dltreiber/download_treiber_999a.p...

RadLinker for advanced settings also like FSAA and so on.
http://users.adelphia.net/~webspace/RadLinker2033.zip

RadClocker for OC'n:
http://users.adelphia.net/~webspace/RadClocker2030.zip

I use this combo with my R420 aka ATi M18 Mobillity Radeon 9800 AGP 256MB GDDR2 in my Dell Inspiron 9100 Xtreme and really everything runs without failures.

on the X1K cards Radlinker and Radclocker does not work, the X800 XT PE it works like a charm also on X850 XT PE cards so your X850 Pro should do fine

hmm I had and still make use of the Antec True Power 550P EPS12V PSU for the X800 XT PE AGP as for the X1900 XTX PCI-e for now with a VoodooMAC 5500 Proto next to it  so with a 550 Watter you should be okay

for the X850 Pro ViVo a 400 Watt PSU should be sufficiant as well just to save costs, take Antec or Enermax they really rock.

Ok, went out and got a 500 watt PS and that solved most everything. MoH Pacific Assault still reboots the system though. Think I might have found the problem but I'm not sure yet. I've got an extra 80 gig drive so I decided that with the new card and a AMD 3200+ and a gig of ram, I'd try out Vista on it. Well during the install, Vista blue screened with a Memory Management error. I'm in the process of reloading Vista on the drive but now I'm wondering if the problem with MoH rebooting might not have something to do with that. I'm not sure because FarCry, CoD 2, Thief 3 all run smooth as silk now though. If it was a memory problem, I'd be seeing it in more then just one game so I'm not sure what to think at this point. Once I get Vista installed, I'm going to plug my other drive back in that's got XP installed and run Sandra SiSoft on it and run the burn in test and see if I can't find something else out.

maybe you have some bad sectors on your HDD [Hard Drive]?
otherwise test some other ram or one ram stick lesser and start pulling out cards like soundcard, network card and so on untill the problem has dissapeared.

I hust hope you didn't buy a cheapo 500 Watt Sweex or Q-Tech PSU because they give less power than a 300 Watt Antec or Enermax and also create unstabillity as well, just because of the cheap parts which is used to build them and so on.

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MS has a great ram test utility.

Patriot Signature series. Got them through newegg.com for 66.99 on sale on April 3rd of this year. Here's the link, they raised the price on them, but it's what they are.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220037

They are dual channel memory although my board doesn't support dual channel, figured I bought them when I did so that when I got around to do an upgrade I could use them then. I know, should have gotten Corsair or something but for the price I didn't think that I could go wrong, but looking back........

I think your cool Gamma, I don't think it was the power supply to begin with. I'm having more and more problems with programs locking up and it's really looking like a memory issue. Sandra locked up on me while doing the memory bench mark and I can't get PC Check to run off the disk because my floppy drive seems to have taken a dump as well. Keeps asking "Please insert floppy disk into drive A:" and it's done that with 10 different floppy's. I'm about ready to throw the damn thing out the window at this point (minus the new card of course).

I put the X850 into my secondary machine that's a AMD 2100+,  512 ram with a Enermax 400 watt in it and it's working just fine. CoD 2, FarCry, America's Army, Thief 3, RCT 3 (my daughter loves that game), Rainbow Six 3 all played just fine with it. No reboots, no lock ups no anything.