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[DrEvil]

I used to get this problem a lot when I first got my card; i'd go into a game (Halo, at the time) and play for a bit; then the system would lock; the screen would freeze and go black, and a horrible hissing noise would be coming from the speakers.

After a power supply upgrade, and every other troubleshooting thing I could figure out with ATi, we decided to RMA the card for a replacement.

This worked, and I haven't had much problem since -- except today. I installed Battlefield 2, got the patch, updated my catalyst, and the same problem is happening.

Screen freezes, but stays on the monitor this time (eg still picture of the game), and the hissing returns.. Has anyone had this problem and know how to fix it?

-d

 

[DrEvil]

bump cuz I need help; this has had to happen to someone else too.

-d

 

[teh_pwn]

I used to get this problem a lot when I first got my card; i'd go into a game (Halo, at the time) and play for a bit; then the system would lock; the screen would freeze and go black, and a horrible hissing noise would be coming from the speakers.

All I can tell you is that this exactly describes what my system did when I played games with an OC too high (like 3.0 -> 3.6 GHz).

 

[DrEvil]

Oddly enough my card isn't OC'd, I may try underclocking it; but that kind of sucks, heh.

 

[teh_pwn]

My video card was at stock. It was my CPU that was OCed. It was plenty cool, just too much for the processor I guess.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Oddly enough my card isn't OC'd, I may try underclocking it; but that kind of sucks, heh.

maybe its just overheating. do you have enough fans and shit in your system?

 

[Azih]

maybe its just overheating. do you have enough fans and shit in your system?

Is there a good utility for figuring out the temperature of your comp?

 

[demi]

I have a 9700 Pro, no problems. I did have some sort of "stretching" in-game, but I discovered that was because of some bad ram.

 

[Mupepe]

My Geforce FX 5200 used to do the same thing. Particularly in games like "Rise of Nations" which isn't very graphically demanding. It runs fine with HL2 and stuff actually, runs at a pretty solid FPS on medium settings. But my wife plays City of Heroes and it does this with her. This is also not that graphically demanding. I'd like to know the answer too. All my drivers are updated etc.

 

[DrEvil]

I've got one main fan, one on the board, one on the motherboard, one on the processor etc; the system runs at approx 36* celcius, so it's not too hot.

The system is also open and in a ventilated area, so there's free air roaming throughout the case.

I've noticed that it's mainly a Direct3D and AGP apeture relation; if there's any sort of memory leak, the card must overflow; namely on games like Age of Empires that you'd never think would use D3D intense enough to crash the system.

I've read elsewhere that it's a memory problem, but i've replaced my ram twice since then and I have ruled that issue out -- changing the core voltages helped slightly but not enough to be playable (I got to play 20 mins of battlefield 2 before it crashed). I have removed extra cards and have a more than sufficient powersource, so while the card does seem to get hot; there's not much more I can do on that front.

I've just underclocked it but haven't tested yet, so we'll see how that goes once I feel ready to let my system lockup (have torrents running, heh).