x800GTO AGP 16pp Problems

[Rekcah5]

Ive recently purchaced a x800GTO 256mb GDDR3 AGP r430, and flashed the bios last night to a x800XL to unlock all 16 pipelines. I double checked ATITool to make sure 16pp's were active, and idle/in use temperatures where in the clear. Everything was working relatively good until this morning when I was about 10 minutes into Quake 4.

The game froze for about 6secs and ATI's 'VPU Recovery' window poped up informing me that my VPU was no longer responding to driver commands and had reset it. The first time it did this I decided to swap my video drivers from OmegaDrivers to ATI's 6.5 Catalyst drivers. Ran Quake4 again.. and 5mins into the game it happened again. Temp's were good, and I'm not overclocking except for the extra 4pp's. This has never been a problem with this card in the past and am 90% sure this is being caused by the bios flash.

Getting frusterated, I rebooted my comp, and reflashed it to the original BIOS using atiflash. Double checked ATITool again to make sure it reverted back to 12pp's which it did. Curious as to if this solved the problem I opened up Quake4 again. 5mins into the game *BAM* game freezes, no VPU recovery this time.. had to reset it. This got me very nervous. Ive been testing different games for the past 30mins and it seems to be happening to anything using 3D acceleration.

At this point I wasn't sure if it was a driver or hardware problem. So I reinstalled Windows and loaded up all the spiffy new drivers. Booted up WoW, 10mins into playing .. 'VPU Recovery' window ...

Im not sure what else to try other than replacing my video card. Ive been digging around all kinds of forums seeing if anyone else has had this problem and haven't had any success. So I was wondering if anyone has any ideas at all.. any help would be greatly appreciated.

My PC Specs:
ECS kv2 lite AMD 64 Socket 939
AMD 64bit 3000
500w ATX PSU
4x512mb PC 3200 RAM
x800GTO 256mb GDDR3 (r430 core) AGP V/D/VO (using DVI port):
P/N: 1024-CC66-00-SA
SKU: 11066-02

ATITool Info posted as attachment:

 

[Jimmy 2004]

Sounds like your card has been somehow damaged - did you mod it as soon as you got it or did it use to work fine?

 

[Rekcah5]

I bought the card about 2 months ago from NewEgg and it was working fine up untill I flashed it. .

 

[Jimmy 2004]

If you don't get a response soon try posting in this thread. There is a guy called dolf who knows what he's talking about and is very helpful. (he's helped a few people mod X800 GTOs, including me!)

 

[euchrid]

I'm having a very similar problem. I removed my HIS x800 in order to get access to the audio header pins, which are right next to it. After I put it I ran the machine for a few minutes before getting severe onscreen artifacts (the whole display became unreadable) for a minute or so, then it returned with the "no longer recieving driver commands" message.

I thought that it was overheating for a while, but the fan is still spinning fine and I've cleaned all the gunk out of the heatsink. There's also no reason why it would suddenly start getting hotter than it was previously.

Original poster, have you sorted this out? Has anyone else got any ideas?

 

[Rekcah5]

Well I found out the problem was my AGP slot on my mobo. After flashing it with the wrong bios I had to manually insert a PCI card and my best guess is while doing this I somehow messed with my AGP slot. I purchased a new motherboard and everthing is working perfect. Hopefully this isn't your problem but my best guess is it is

 

[euchrid]

Mine is in a PCI-E slot - would that make a difference?

Also, I'm pretty sure that my issue is with the card, because I've tested another card in the same slot (another X800, actually) and it runs perfectly.

 

[Jimmy 2004]

Mine is in a PCI-E slot - would that make a difference?

Also, I'm pretty sure that my issue is with the card, because I've tested another card in the same slot (another X800, actually) and it runs perfectly.

Well, you could try the broken X800 in another PC and see if it works, but it could have got damaged when you took it out (eg static) so it doesn't look too hopeful at the moment. If it is broken you might be covered by warrantee seeing as you did't do anything that sounds like it should have broken it.