EPoX 8rda3+ and Radeon 9200

JoeG · Post by **JoeG** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:51 pm

Anyone have trouble with the Radeon 9200 on the nForce2 chipset or the 8rda3+ EPoX board? I've tried all conservative settings and even forced agp 4X. Every time I run anything that takes advantage of the card, the comp crashes. I've fully tested the ram and mobo w/o the 9200. The 9200 also works fine on a KT600 board.

And I've flashed to the latest bios... all drivers are up-to-date as well.

Thanks,
Joe

wildabeast · Post by **wildabeast** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 1:01 pm

I have this board right now in my other computer. With a GeForce 3 so I can't help you in that sence. I can though give you a few things to look at. One would be AGP voltage. When I had my 9800Pro in this motherboard I had to up to voltage to keep it stable when playing games. I had to bump it up to 1.6volts to keep it stable. The other is FSB. The motherboard I have hates going over 200FSB. It just will not stay stable over 200FSB at all. So playing games over 200FSB would make me crash out to the desktop or all together just reboot. My PSU sometimes was not up to the challenge either. My voltage are terrible with a Antec True 550 watt. 12volt rail somewhere in the 11.61 range. This I think caused most of my problems.

drexor69 · Post by **drexor69** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:56 am

Are you overclocking? If so, do you have your AGP/PCI bus locked down? The ATI cards (in my experience) don't seem to like an overclocked AGP bus...

Post by **Illuminati** » Mon Nov 10, 2003 3:05 pm

hey Joe, give us an update.... are you still having this issue?

JoeG · Post by **JoeG** » Fri Nov 14, 2003 1:29 am

Sorry for the lack of updates... the issues is gone... turned out to be a defective XP 2600+ proc believe it or not. I wasn't overclocking, so it didn't make any sense, and after finally swapping for another 2600+, it fixed the problem. Too bad I tried memory, power supply, and several motherboards along the way...

Thanks,
Joe