9200 SE crashes

[Yanez]

I need help. My video card AGP 9200SE keeps crashing during games. Sometimes its after an hour or sometimes after 5 mins. Sometimes my pc restarts and sometimes it just crashes to desktop. I downloaded the latest drivers and direct X so i dont whats wrong. I even lowered the thing from 8x to 4x agp but nada. Help

Windows XP
AMD athlon 3400+
1 GIG
Card is AGP

 

[PC eye]

Try uninstalling or disabling the Catalyst Control Center for a start. With that old a model any Catalyst version after 5.11 is "useless"! I found that out with the ATI Radeon 9550 model on the other build where the newer versions are for the newer model cards.

The 5.11 was the last for the 9550 which was a newer model. Do you have the original software disk? You may want to consider a newer model AGP card like the X850! That's a great gaming card and will easily run most of the newer Catalyst versions out.

 

[Yanez]

you know where to get the old drivers?
the ati site only goes back to 6.1

 

[PC eye]

On now discontinued items you may have to email ATI's now AMD support staff to see if they still have anything archived for the older models. You're coming at a bad time since ATI was bought up by AMD recently. The change over puts you in a bad light there. But the older the better or simply running the basic drivers only would be another thought. http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/previous/radeon/aiwradeonxip-cat61-xp.html

 

[StrangleHold]

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1248

 

[PC eye]

With the ATI Radeon 9550 anything past the 5.11 version seen there would falter when the new Cat. was installed. That shoudl be a big help there. The other option of course is emailing and waiting and waiting to see if the new support staff provides a link to an archive. If you have any problem downloading there another archive was found at http://www.xfire.com/files/1094/ or at http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=30

 

[Yanez]

okay, i downloaded the 5.11 driver. Uninstalled the old drivers and intalled the 5.11 one. However the games stil crash or turn the screen into a bunch of colors. I lower AGP settings from 8x to 4x but nothing. I have no idea why this is happening. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP

 

[Burgerbob]

Ill bet it is overheating... can you get a reading on the core temps?

 

[Yanez]

i lowered the AGP settings from 8x to Disabled now. Dont know what it did but now i can play fine.

 

[PC eye]

That's an older model card with the apparent lack of support needed for the games you are running. Which are? Games by Steam with the Source engine will require the latest ATI drivers for a card with an ATI chip on it. This is for the enhanced graphics seen in most but not all newer games out. Now you know that model card is too old for the games you are trying to run. It simply doesn't have the support for them.