These are my specs
> Manufacturer : Dell Dimension DIM4700
> Mainboard : Dell 0M3918
> Chipset : Intel i915G
> Processor : Intel Pentium 4 530J @ 3000 MHz
> Physical Memory : 1536 MB
> Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
HD3850 512 PCI-e
> Hard Disk : WDC (80 GB)
> CD-Rom Drive : SONY CDRW/DVD CRX330E
> Monitor Type : Dell Computer DELL E771a - 15 inches
> Network Card : Intel Corporation 82562EZ PRO/100 Ethernet Controller
> Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
> DirectX : Version 9.0c (July 2007)
Now i have a big problem and a multitude of possibilities.
Recently i have installed an HD3850. Now whenever i play most games, i often get a crash. Crash could happen instantly or in a few minutes depending on the game. Generally crash was my screen freezing, then turning black, sound vibrating, and occasionaly it would then go to a blue screen with an error message
my first error message was Your Graphics Processor got stuck in an infinite loop.
After reinstalling my drivers the blue screen error changed to an error with aticqag.dll or atidvag.dll
for a different reason i had to reinstall windows, and i installed the drivers again
now similar problems
First, when installing the supplied drivers they installed some sort of HDMI audio drivers for my graphics card. However i do not have w/e i need for this so i was forced to disable it in sound options and change the sound source to my sound blaster.
Secondly, for some reason, i can run games in windowed. I can run swbf2 and mass effect just fine in windowed mode but fullscreen i get many crashes.
i have seen many people having crashes with my HD3850 and there are several possible problems i found
1. Drivers, the ati drivers apparently suck
I have installed properly the supplied drivers and i have tried other drivers from the ati website
2. overheating
i suspect that the crashing may be related to overheating
however that does not explain why i can play mass effect on max settings windowed but not fullscreen, and why in some games like COD4 i get an almost instant crash without any time for the graphics card to overheat
3. directx or bios?i'm not really sure about this but i saw some threads were people updated their directx and bios, not sure for what, i think mobo and that seemed to help
4. Is this related to the HDMI audio problem?
5. Faulty Card?
I can play the games windowed just fine though so it seems odd
6. i have seen many fixed this problem on AGP by disabling fast write
however i have PCI-e and that's not an option
does that help?
7. i remember somewhere it was posted that someone fixed this by going into device manager and changing some settings on the pci bus
Note: now i am not sure if am getting a blue screen
i just made it crash and it stayed at a black screen for a while without going to blue
i suspect that possibly some driver or direct x or some software error is making my games get stuck in an infinite loop and overheat
however i don't know how GPU's work so that is just a guess
any suggestions on diagnosing my problem?
> Manufacturer : Dell Dimension DIM4700
> Mainboard : Dell 0M3918
> Chipset : Intel i915G
> Processor : Intel Pentium 4 530J @ 3000 MHz
> Physical Memory : 1536 MB
> Video Card : ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
HD3850 512 PCI-e
> Hard Disk : WDC (80 GB)
> CD-Rom Drive : SONY CDRW/DVD CRX330E
> Monitor Type : Dell Computer DELL E771a - 15 inches
> Network Card : Intel Corporation 82562EZ PRO/100 Ethernet Controller
> Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
> DirectX : Version 9.0c (July 2007)
Now i have a big problem and a multitude of possibilities.
Recently i have installed an HD3850. Now whenever i play most games, i often get a crash. Crash could happen instantly or in a few minutes depending on the game. Generally crash was my screen freezing, then turning black, sound vibrating, and occasionaly it would then go to a blue screen with an error message
my first error message was Your Graphics Processor got stuck in an infinite loop.
After reinstalling my drivers the blue screen error changed to an error with aticqag.dll or atidvag.dll
for a different reason i had to reinstall windows, and i installed the drivers again
now similar problems
First, when installing the supplied drivers they installed some sort of HDMI audio drivers for my graphics card. However i do not have w/e i need for this so i was forced to disable it in sound options and change the sound source to my sound blaster.
Secondly, for some reason, i can run games in windowed. I can run swbf2 and mass effect just fine in windowed mode but fullscreen i get many crashes.
i have seen many people having crashes with my HD3850 and there are several possible problems i found
1. Drivers, the ati drivers apparently suck
I have installed properly the supplied drivers and i have tried other drivers from the ati website
2. overheating
i suspect that the crashing may be related to overheating
however that does not explain why i can play mass effect on max settings windowed but not fullscreen, and why in some games like COD4 i get an almost instant crash without any time for the graphics card to overheat
3. directx or bios?i'm not really sure about this but i saw some threads were people updated their directx and bios, not sure for what, i think mobo and that seemed to help
4. Is this related to the HDMI audio problem?
5. Faulty Card?
I can play the games windowed just fine though so it seems odd
6. i have seen many fixed this problem on AGP by disabling fast write
however i have PCI-e and that's not an option
does that help?
7. i remember somewhere it was posted that someone fixed this by going into device manager and changing some settings on the pci bus
Note: now i am not sure if am getting a blue screen
i just made it crash and it stayed at a black screen for a while without going to blue
i suspect that possibly some driver or direct x or some software error is making my games get stuck in an infinite loop and overheat
however i don't know how GPU's work so that is just a guess
any suggestions on diagnosing my problem?