net graphics card and power supply

[will182]

before i had a geforce fx 5200 256mb pci and a jeantech quality 300w power supply and i kept having problems of my ocmputer shutting down on games and applications well now i have a connect 3d ati radeon 9600 256mb agp 8x and a jeantech quality 500w poer supply and my computer still shuts down on stuff well i only tried it once on 3dmark 2001 se and i have to say up to when it shut down there was great performance it blown my fx5200 right out of the sky, anyway it shut down on what i think was the 7th test (nature or somthing were there is a bridge goign over a river and a man fishing and then it was doing 47fps (19fps on the fx 5200) and then the comptuer just shut down now this radeon 9600 has a big heatsink on it covering the memory and its a very complex heatsink but has no fan on wich it doesent really need if it doe snot have one on now whats could be causing the shut down becouse i aint overclocked my card yet but i am going to overclock it when i get a fan for it.

 

[gotrootdude]

Have you made sure you don't have any hidden devices showing in device manager that may be giving a problem?

Load up device manager, click view/show hidden devices, and uninstall any greyed out devices or devices with exclaimation marks.

Just for the record, it may still be a problem with the power supply.. Jeantech is not considered high quality.. Only 18A on the 12V, and only 2.0A on the 5V.

 

[will182]

yes but i was wondering what could be the cause and so i stuck a thermostat to the heatsink and ran the benchmark this time it shut down later in the benchmark and the temp was 44 celsius so could that be the problem

 

[will182]

and there are no extra things in device manager, i looked at video thing in it and it only showed radeon 9600 and radeon 9600 secondary but there is nothing else out of the ordanery in there

 

[will182]

woo no way will it be the power sdupply this one has 2 fans in and its powerfull enougth, what do you mean only 18a on the 12 volt

 

[gotrootdude]

Heat may be an issue if the card's overheating, but if the cpu's overheating it would normally show itself in lockups instead of reboots.. It could be a memory problem, maybe you might want to run memtest86 to check out the memory.

 

[will182]

hmm ok i need a link to this memtest86 thing and no not the cpu thats not overheating i was talking baout the graphics card

 

[will182]

woo i downloaded it and read the instructions and dont get em can you help me install it

 

[Skivvywaver]

Put a floppy in the drive, make a startup disk in the floppy format area. Extract the files from memtest86 to the floppy and boot up with it in the drive.

 

[Skivvywaver]

Wait, that is wrong for memtest86. I'll be back.

 

[Skivvywaver]

http://www.memtest.org/

Download the windows floppy version. Extract it to a folder. Put a floppy in the drive and click the install.bat. When it asks for a directory type a and hit enter. It will say to install a disk, it is already in the drive so just hit enter again. Leave the floppy in the drive and reboot.

 

[will182]

and what could be well defenetly be the problem if it aint the memory

 

[will182]

oh is 8799 good for a radeon 9600 on 3dmark 2001 se

 

[Skivvywaver]

Yes, that is decent.

 

[will182]

i ran the test and i found some setting but i dont know what they are, the settings were like this

RAM WAS SINGLE CHANNEL (64-BITS)
ECC: DISABLED
PAT: ENABLES

i also have ddr 400 ram (pc 3200 becouse it said on the packet it came in and on the site and here is what it shows on the test
RAM: 166mhz (ddr332)
and also i tried the test twice and both times the computer shut down i never seen when on the first test but the 2nd i think it was in between 64-65% so it seems to be the ram but could osomeone confirm that and the ram dont seem right form those settings, well i dont know what half of the setting are like i knwo the ram that i typed there is not what i am suposed to have nor what the ram is so there might be a bios problem here i need help!!!!!!!!