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Mods on power trips crack me up.

Why cant bungie admit they got Halo PC very badly wrong and left it to rot?

The Xbox 360. The customers are the beta testers.

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  • 05.04.2005 7:20 AM PDT
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AH FRICK dude..... I bet ya that's an AGP 8x slot or card and they're not compatible. They use different voltages - when I get home tonight, I'll pull my mobo manual and look it all up - but that's my bet.

  • 05.04.2005 9:58 AM PDT
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Tyan makes stuff specifically for servers. A 9600 by them probably uses AGP 8X Pro, not normal. Pro requires more voltage...and is sometimes backward compatable.
If he's overclocking it also may be a hardware monitor thinking the DRAM voltage is above normal.

  • 05.04.2005 11:39 AM PDT
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Whoah, hold yer horses before you buy something without knowing...

Swap out another power supply. In fact, now I'm sure that could be it. PSU's, if not the utmost quality, and even some of those, have been known to crap out within 2 years. Swap one out and see how it works. If a psu is a bit worn or fried and cannot supply adequate voltage to the various transistors and logic gates in processors and RAM, thn they won't function, causing games and apps to hang.

A freeze means inadequate voltage, at least when you overclock. So the same principle applies if your voltage levels drop because of a bad psu.

Try that before spending $$$ on a new mobo, as it really could be the psu.

  • 05.04.2005 5:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mr B
Well I thought PSU, but the 9600 pro doesnt take it from the PSU, its only from the motherboard.

Im assuming the motherboard gives correct voltage to the graphics card whatever it gets. If anything, the mobo should be throwing up errors, not the card having bad voltage.

And I got it wrong, it didnt freeze, the game hung and sent me back to windows. And there has been no overclocking.


That's the thing - I'm saying the mobo doesn't send the correct voltage..... Why would the mobo automatically send the gfx card a req'd voltage? That makes no sense from an electrical engineering POV. Give the slot a set voltage and make the card makers work within that. Except they screwed with it for AGP 8x...

  • 05.05.2005 2:32 PM PDT
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$5 says its not the PSU - its the card and how it interfaces.

  • 05.06.2005 12:23 PM PDT
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ya know.... it would have been a good thing to know that the card had been working for a year..... do you have paypal?

You don't think its the VRAM, eh?

  • 05.06.2005 7:27 PM PDT
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I wouldn't think so, video cards last a long time, and it's usually the VPU to go first, if anything.

Check the power feeds to the agp slot for any corrosion, burns...well, you've probably done that though. If it is the PSU it's not too bad, you can get great ones for $70. If it's the mobo, it's probably a blown voltage adjuster, or the power regulator crapped out. Sounds like a power problem, though, as it hangs during games, but not during normal use. That's signs of a lack of power. So I wouldn't think the card pooped out.

  • 05.06.2005 8:34 PM PDT
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speaking of psu's, do you think that for my system specs (in my sig) i would need more than 300w? cause i have a 300 right now, and it runs ok... occasional crashes tho, most likely due to ocing. now that i read this i turn more suspicion toward my psu. if i get one it wont be a for a short while, cause i plan on getting a thermaltake case with a thermaltake 400w psu in it sometime. just want to know if that should be the first thing i get before anything else

  • 05.06.2005 10:55 PM PDT
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Nope, no way you need more. You probably use 250 or less peak. However, wattage isn't everything. The quality of the voltage rails is really where the power of a psu lies. High wattage and crap rails can be worse than lower wattage and better rails.

For an example, this system:

Dual-940 Rioworks HDAMB
Opteron 244
4x512MB DDR400
3D Labs Wildcat III 6110
250GB 7200rpm IDE
2x9GB SCSI Ultra160 drives
2xOptical drives
...and a 350 watt psu. Never stutters.

  • 05.06.2005 11:59 PM PDT
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ok. then ill get the case later with the psu cause i dont particularly like my psu...its a weird off brand

  • 05.07.2005 1:08 AM PDT