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Peltz
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 Trouble with computer! A friend of mine has problems with games, to be excact he cant play any, because the screen goes black and the computer freezes.
Tech data:
Amd athlon xp 1900+
asus a7v333
1x512 mb ddr266
sapphire radeon 9700 pro
ibm 40 gB hdd + Quantium Fireball 5 gb hdd (windows) (games are on
ibm hdd)
OS WinXP
AOpen 300w poweri
Computer only crashes while playing games. He updated the drivers (catalyst 4.3) and also rolled back the drivers hoping it would help but to no effect.
When this first time occured he got this message "VPU Recover switched hardware mode to software mode" He disabled it and tried again but no effect.
He hasnt added any new hardware lately. Also the only drivers updated are those of the video card.
What could cause this? Is the MotherBoard going or vidcard?
MB is about 2 years old.
Has anyone had such issues?
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derf
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Never had any issues like this but it sounds that the VId card is having trouble.
May hopefully be just a software problem, so try formatting and reinstalling XP. Otherwise, if he has other working graphics cards hanging about, try with them and swicth them over and see what happens.
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| Tue Mar 16, 2004 11:45 am |
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Peltz
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Problem fixed, the vidCard overheated coz the ventilator wasnt working 
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Rinox
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lol, you need ventilators in Estonia during the winter?  Cant you just put the case close to a window or something? 
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Peltz
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He is finnish but the weather is pretty much the same. Its a good idea but not really doable because it doesnt fit there
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ElevenBravo
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I knew that 
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derf
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heh course u did!
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