Re: Radeon X1650- Ati2dvag infinite loop/Power save enable/etcerrors/@WITS END/help plz
- From: Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:32:49 -0400
softmachine wrote:
After just getting my PC up and running again after a month or 2 by the
reset bios jumper since I'd accidentally set it to detect system fan, a
few days later having played this game Roma Victor since Februrary up to
the point it ******* up and 2 days after fixing it... I load it up and a
few minutes into the game it freezes. The whole computer. It wouldn't
let me alt tab, use ctrl alt del, nothing. Restart manually, and I start
getting "ati2dvag.dll" infinite loop errors, sometimes at load up,
sometimes before windows even loads, sometimes at desktop. Other times
the windows loading screen will be scrambled.
Now I'd had trouble when I first started playing this game as it froze
every 2-5 minutes, but it didn't take the whole comp with it. I resolved
that after I found the solution to change "VIA CPU to AGP controller" to
"PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge" and it's been set on that ever since.
I've had minimal success switching around options in catalyst control
center. The best I'll get is a half an hour out of the game, and then it
screws up again, the bulk of the time within 10 seconds or less it
freezes up, even on the loading screen now and again. I also get just as
often "power saving enable monitor will shut down..." messages and every
so often a "frequency out of range" error. My HDD temp shows
consistently at lower 30s celsius and below...
My graphics card is a Radeon X1650
I'm running Windows XP SP3
I've tried
- changing screen refresh rate
- enabling/disabling write combining
- enabling/disabling vpu recover
- changing agp speed between off and 4x
- setting 3d gpu settings to performance instead of quality
- changing 3d refresh rate override between disabled/set to
desktop/60hz
- and combinations of these ^
- uninstalling display adapters in device manager and uninstalling
drivers in add/remove programs then try different graphics card
compatible drivers from amds website from 9.2 package to 9.3
- restoring computer to multiple earlier points
- running a full disk check
From hours of googling these specific errors related to amd and radeon
the problem seems widespread but mine came out of nowhere. I don't
remember downloading anything or making ANY setting changes. I was
playing my game fine for hours, closed it, loaded up later and bam. I'm
pretty much fed up with scouring forums with no results
What if it was a hardware problem ?
It could be some kind of video card failure. Perhaps the
cooling system isn't making good contact with the GPU.
Is the fan spinning on the video card ? Do you have a
utility to check the GPU temperature ?
What about power supply ? Have you seen any signs it
is weak ?
I'd want proof the basic system is fully functional
and error free, before "scouring forums with no results".
I have a VIA chipset. I've been running mine at AGP 8X
since I got it. I use VIA CPU to AGP controller. I haven't
had reason to curse VIA, because my board has been working
fine. And I game on it every day.
I'd want to try some comparison testing. For video card
testing, Windows remains the best place to do it. Doing
it with Linux is pure frustration. The only test program
I've got in Linux, is Quake3 Arena (as I have a set of map
files on CD - the executable is free for download, as long
as you have map files for it). Windows has more freebies,
and the fact the drivers work right away, means it is ready
to test sooner.
I'd take a spare hard drive, and do a test install of Windows.
This install is not meant to replace your current C: drive.
It is purely for testing for a few hours. I'd load up
any needed drivers and test software, then do the install
with the network cable disconnected from the Internet.
(I disconnect my existing C: drive when I do this, so there
is no possibility of anything happening to it.)
Then, run things like 3DMark and see whether the machine
immediately falls over. (There are more recent versions,
but some of them are larger downloads than this old one is.)
http://majorgeeks.com/3Dmark_d99.html
You can run Prime95 from Mersenne.org, as a means of
heating up just the processor and memory. If Prime95
runs a long time without error, but you can't complete
3DMark benchmark, then chances are, there is a problem
with the Northbridge part of the AGP interface, or it
is the video card at fault. With video cards, a possible
reason for early failure, is a poorly installed heatsink,
or a fan that gets stuck and no longer spins. Then
the GPU overheats, and the fan gets melted and so on.
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/
Once you're finished with your testing, you can go back
to your original C: drive. And connect up the network cable
again. (Ask me how much I hate activation...)
If your basic system is healthy, then the conclusion would
be that some software component on the existing C: drive
is the problem. If the system isn't stable, with a
relatively clean and lightweight C: drive, and unrelated
test software like 3DMark, then I'd start swapping
hardware.
Paul
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