I have recently upgrded my motherboard and CPU (Motherboard is now a Chaintech VNF3-250 and CPU is an AMD A64 2800+) and ever sincei have been having problems with my graphics card, it was running fine before on my old motherboard/cpu (MSI KT3 Ultra and AMD Athlon XP 2400+)

It seems now everytime i try to play graphic intensive games after a certain amount of time the game freezes and i either get a VPU recovery error or the system locks up completely and i have to do a hard reset.

As it was working before i KNOW this has to be a problem with the settings somewhere, i have played around with the AGP voltage, thats currently set to 1.6 and it seems to be the most stable i have got it at the moment, there are no bios updates available that have anything to do with this problem, i have tried disabling AGP fastwrites and setting the car to AGP4x and other than taking an extreme performance knock it doesnt seem to make much difference as it still crashes eventually, i have reinstalled windows XP home and added SP2 along with all other updates i can find. The only thing im not too sure of is the Ram timings, im not sure what they should be set to. If there is anything that anybody can suggest i would appreciate some kind of help. I have tried searching google numerous times and have found quite a lot of problems like this, but all of the recommended solutions do not seem to fix this problem (have tried rolling back drivers to every set in the past 6 months, changed AGP voltage etc etc...)

Any help on this matter would be highly appreciated!

Well, i dont know friend, this seems to either be a really simple problem you've overkilled or a really complex and tough one that you just havnt found yet...

My suggestions:

Since you've reformatted and installed latest everything, including the game, it really kills the game side of hte problems... i would suggest resetting your jumpers on the motherboard to default, and resetting your bios as well to defaults... then go into the game and KILL the graphics.. drop all of it to the highest performance and lowest possible quality... (ex. bilinear texturing instead of tri..) See if this fixes it... if not, i would have to tell you that your card is just not compatible... i know it seems unlikly but i have had this compatibility issues before.

^*--Warbarz--*^

I have reset the jumpers on the motherboard and set everything to defaults, or lower if possible and other than taking an extreme performance knock, it doesnt make a difference, is there anything else you can think of trying other than getting a new graphics card?

hey, i have the exact same problem. i have tried everything!!! This is my third motherboard now, i've tried 4 dif video cards... dif ram, dif harddrive, reformatted several times, messed around with the bios, and my games still crash. All i can think of now is that maybe it's the power supply... it might not be getting enough juice. im going to try that soon and see if maybe that works. Plz let me know if you find any solution

I too have theese exact problems with the
Radeon 9600 Pro. Though I haven't tried
everything yet, since I'm not a very
advanced user, I simply don't know what
to do. But it seems it wouldn't have
mattered as you guys have tried almost
everything. I can't even play "old" games
(1999 etc.) on low graphic settings
without recieving a VPU recovery
message WAY to often! I'm starting to
wonder if it might be the card that's not
functioning right...? If anyone has any clue
as to what might fix this §&*#!∞!!*
problem, you'll have my eternal gratitude!
And if you live nearby, you might even get
a bearhug :o)!! Thanks in advance!

Check out this thread. It might give some
clues...
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