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Just bought a HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ3 Turbo 512mb AGP and as soon as i poped it in, no drivers no nothin my idle CPU usage went to 70 - 100 percent and is staying like that. Ive installed the drivers and no change. Graphics are corrupted too. anyone got any ideas? i got an Athlon64 3000+ on an MSI k8n neo2 platinum MB, 2 gigs kingston, and a 430 watt powertake power supply |
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Did you clean out all the previous drivers before installing this one? Sounds like a software conflict to me... --------------- Core2 Duo E6850 @ 3.6 GHz -- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R -- HIS HD 4870 @ 790/1100 -- 2 GB Corsair XMS2 6400 4-4-4-12 -- Silverstone Zeus 750W -- 900 GB HDDs -- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro -- Acer AL2216W 22" @ 1680x1050 "Let fly the white flag of war!" |
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I did, i went to add/remove programs and uninstalled nvidia display drivers. And i deleted the Nvidia folder before i installed. HIS tech support sais i have a bad card and they want me to return it but i got the feeeling another card will do the same thing |
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Well there's 4 things I know of that'll cause graphics corruption; software conflict, weak power supply, overheating or a broken card. The reason I'm thinking it's a software conflict is the CPU usage, is it still jumping to 100%?
--------------- Core2 Duo E6850 @ 3.6 GHz -- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R -- HIS HD 4870 @ 790/1100 -- 2 GB Corsair XMS2 6400 4-4-4-12 -- Silverstone Zeus 750W -- 900 GB HDDs -- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro -- Acer AL2216W 22" @ 1680x1050 "Let fly the white flag of war!" |
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I formated my hard drive and reinstalled windows and its still happening but now instead of idling around 70% - 100% its down to 20% - 50%. I also took a closer look at the box and it recommends a 450 watt psu and mnines 430 so im short 20 watts, do u think that might be whats causing it? |
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What's the make and model of the power supply? I've never heard of Powertake, did you mean Thermaltake?
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Your correct lol its thermaltake pure power 430 watt and i do have another comp with an agp port but the power supply in it is only 200 watts. And my 12+v cord has 18 amps. |
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Well that explains it I think. 18 amps isn't enough considering that power supply only has a single 12v rail. It's trying to run the processor and the video card from that 18 amps, but it probably wouldn't even be enough to run the video card alone.
--------------- Core2 Duo E6850 @ 3.6 GHz -- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R -- HIS HD 4870 @ 790/1100 -- 2 GB Corsair XMS2 6400 4-4-4-12 -- Silverstone Zeus 750W -- 900 GB HDDs -- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro -- Acer AL2216W 22" @ 1680x1050 "Let fly the white flag of war!" |
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Ok thats what i was thinking too. I just got an 89 watt AMD athlon 64 4000+ 2.4 ghz in the mail today what kinda amps do u recommend for that and my new radeon? |
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A dual rail PSU (2 12v lines) with at least 30 amps combined would be best. Most good 500W PSU's will supply at least that much, and I wouldn't get any less than 500W since it's nice to have some headroom for future upgrades. --------------- Core2 Duo E6850 @ 3.6 GHz -- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R -- HIS HD 4870 @ 790/1100 -- 2 GB Corsair XMS2 6400 4-4-4-12 -- Silverstone Zeus 750W -- 900 GB HDDs -- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro -- Acer AL2216W 22" @ 1680x1050 "Let fly the white flag of war!" |
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What about this one it has 2 12v+ lines both at 18 amps and it has all the connectors i need.
Message edited by Cabbal666 on 07-03-2008 at 09:09:15 PM |
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That should be fine.
--------------- Core2 Duo E6850 @ 3.6 GHz -- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R -- HIS HD 4870 @ 790/1100 -- 2 GB Corsair XMS2 6400 4-4-4-12 -- Silverstone Zeus 750W -- 900 GB HDDs -- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro -- Acer AL2216W 22" @ 1680x1050 "Let fly the white flag of war!" |
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I have a total of 24 processes goin, only ones that arent Windows default processes is: Ati2evxx.exe, CCC.exe, and MOM.exe which are all ATI. My idle cpu usage with these 24 processes is now around 30 - 55%. I installed Supreme Commader and tried playing it, the game chokes up every second or so, especially with the cutscenes. In game text is red where it should be blue (firefox and windows is doin this too) and special fx (like explosions and weapon blasts) are all messed up.
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What operating system are you running?
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I didnt found another place to ask so sorry for this
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