Radeon card making every game crash

[Mr_K_M_H]

Help!!!

I have a Radeon card and it is making all of my games crash. I am using the 7075 drivers and Direct X 8a. I have 256 RAM and an AMD 1Ghz processor and Im using the ASUS K7M mobo. I have also flashed my bios on my mobo. Nothing I do seems to work. No matter what game I play, my system crashes. I think it is a problem with Direct 3D or Direct Draw but Im not sure. Does anyone have any idea on what I could do do resolve this issue.

[AlienDyne]

Have you checked ATI webpage to find the card's FAQs and Tech Support?

[hagakure]

Since you're running an Athlon, that means you have a VIA chipset. ATI cards and Via chipsets don't like to play well. First, make sure that you install the latest VIA 4-in-1 patch, available from VIA's homepage. You have to do this AFTER each time you've installed your ATI drivers. If you are running Win2K (and if you are, that may be the problem, many games I own will start in 2K but will quickly crash to the desktop) you must also install the Microsoft HotFix for ATI/VIA combinations. This is available from Microsoft's Support Knowledge Base site, but I don't have the code number handy, you'll just have to search it.

Finally, if that doesn't work, try going into your BIOS and setting the AGP aperture to 128. I recently upgraded RAM from 128 to 768MB and found the RADEON 64MB DDR would no longer work unless I changed the aperture setting to 128.

[hagakure]

I just checked up on that Win2K Hotfix, and apparently it is now included in Service Pack 2, so it is no longer available for separate download. So if you are running Win2K, make sure you install SP2. <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0">

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[tablesalt]

Originally posted by hagakure:
<STRONG>Since you're running an Athlon, that means you have a VIA chipset. ATI cards and Via chipsets don't like to play well. First, make sure that you install the latest VIA 4-in-1 patch, available from VIA's homepage. You have to do this AFTER each time you've installed your ATI drivers. If you are running Win2K (and if you are, that may be the problem, many games I own will start in 2K but will quickly crash to the desktop) you must also install the Microsoft HotFix for ATI/VIA combinations. This is available from Microsoft's Support Knowledge Base site, but I don't have the code number handy, you'll just have to search it.

Finally, if that doesn't work, try going into your BIOS and setting the AGP aperture to 128. I recently upgraded RAM from 128 to 768MB and found the RADEON 64MB DDR would no longer work unless I changed the aperture setting to 128.</STRONG>

The K7M mainboard that is being used is actually a combo of the AMD 751 North bridge and the VIA 686A South bridge. The AGP controller is on the AMD chip on this chipset. AMD has just released a brand new driver pack on their website at http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/bin/amddrvpk_120.exe This contains a newer AGP driver for both Win9x and Win2K.

[Mr_K_M_H]

Thanx for the ideas!!

Tell me what you think about this. I finally tried to check my ram. I have two 128 MB of ram in my system. With one ram chip in the machine, the games hold and the radeon card performs excellent. I tested both of the chips and both worked. When I put both chips in the machine at the same time, the system begins to crash. I ran a ram tester and with one in the machine, the ram passed all of the test. Both chips passed the test. I tried this with each slot on the board. Do you think my mobo is going bad???!!!! <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">

[Silverman]

I wouldn't say your board or your memory is failing if one or the other stick works ok but not both. Chances are that you need to check your memory timings in your bios. Start very conservative such as setting all memory timings at the highest value like changing cas setting of 2 to 3 and so on also enable 2 or 4 way interleave if available get your system stable run a few benches or games than 1 at a time setup your memory settings to the next lowest setting rerun benches games etc. keep doing this until you run into problems instability or crashing. This way you will know what settings you can run at.