Radeon 9100 Rebooting my system!!

[PrimitiveOne]

Hi, I've had my Radeon 9100 for around year or so now. No problems until a few days ago. I would be playing a game on my computer, when suddenly my computer when reboot without warning. After restarting a windows box would display "Windows has recovered from a seriosu error" and the error report usually says "Caused by a Graphic Device Error" or "A driver error" ....fixing the hardware acceleration does nothing...

Help plz.....

my system is

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer GBT___
System Model GA-7VAX
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1674 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F5, 01/10/2002
SMBIOS Version 2.3

 

[paparazi]

PrimitiveOne
Weak power supply or bad power connection.
Unfortunately I have seen two GA-7VA's and one GA-7VAXP burn several pins out on the main power socket to motherboard plug.
This motherboard doesn't have the additional P4 power connector unlike many other socket "A" boards, so under certain setups the main power plug can get overloaded.
I hope for your sake this hasn't happened.

I ended up having to replace my own GA-7VAXP and 431watt Enermax when this happened to me.
Martin


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[norty303]

Mmmmmmh.....I'm experiencing similar problems with a Sapphire Radeon 9100 vivo on a GA-7NN400 (or something!! ) which DOES have the extra power. It was in a GA-7DX previously without incident. I do run it on a 550w PSU but i also have a DVD/CD-RW, 3 Seagate 7200 disks, 1xCreative Audigy S/C, 1 x Yamaha SW1000XG s/c, 1 x Creamware Elektra dedicated 3DSP synth hardware on an overclocked 2500 with 4 case fans so it may be pushing it...

 

[Jazket]

paparazi may be right, but Gigabyte motherboards dont always fail cause of power connection.

First, there's a patch for Windows XP "(whichever)" that may fix that. You wont find the patch in Windows Update, instead, there's a Big patcher called Neowin.net AutoPatcher, (i have it here, if you want it, its 207MB, u better have DSL or T1) that comes with like 72 patches for Windows to fix almost any bug, including this one:

"Game Stops Responding (computer Hangs) or quit unspectly when playing introductory clip."

ima tell you why this should be your solution:

I have a GA-7VM400M(Rev 2.0), AMD K7 Athlon XP 2400+, 512 DDR,AGP 8X 128 MB Nvdia GeForeceFX 5200, Windows XP Professional SP2, and some high-requirement games, such as Generals Zero Hour, Hot Pursuit 2, Mythology - The Titans, and SimCity Deluxe (this one really needs resources and video from pc) and my PowerSupply only has 300W. Well, i was playing SimCity 4 and i started loading a previous Sity i've saved before, and the game got off, and then the computer too. i was like "omg!, what the..." and then i tried everything, changed the AGP apperture size, the jumpers in the Card, for NTSC or PAL (it doesnt have to do with it, but i tried it... noone knows), disabled cache, undo-overclocked the system (with EasyTune 4 tool made for Gigabyte motherboards-overclocking) and reinstalled the video card drivers. But the problem was still there.

I installed the patcher, and i restart my computer after, and i went back to play my beloved city that was really advanced, and the game didnt give me that error again, and it havent done till now.

So first, do this, reinstall the drivers, look for the autopatcher, from neowin.net, and then try to play your game again. If the error is still there.. go to Gigabyte, and look for the most recent BIOS update for your MB (i recomend installing the @BIOS tool that comes with your Drivers Disc, it will be 100% safe with that tool to upgrade your BIOS, find out. If you really thing that upgrading BIOS is an option).

Otherwise, try with some other card an check if that one gives you the same error, if not, its the card, but most likely the Card Drivers.

ah, i forgot, windows has an error that buggs anyone, its the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, if that was the error, replace the Kernel file with the orginal one that comes in your Windows XP CD, your kernel file may be damaged. If not, try uninstalling any antivirus (Norton Antivirus gives that error the most), if not, test your Memory Dimms for errors and corruption.

That's all, hopefully i didnt bore you...

 

[PrimitiveOne]

YAY!!! Thanks alot guys!! The patch was a total success!!! I think part of the problem was due to my computer overheating as well (-___-)

Thanks again!