Re: Asus 7900GT card freezing. What to do?
- From: "Clint" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:41:28 GMT
Hmmm. Looks like the Asus card is one of the few 7900's that's not factory
overclocked. I had a eVGA 7600GT (factory over-clocked) that would lock up
sort of randomly when playing Oblivion. Could go a minute between lock-ups,
or 10. But it would freeze the game for 30 seconds or so, and then continue
on. Sometimes the sound would continue to stutter on, sometimes not.
In any case, I switched over to an ATI X1800GTO, and haven't had a single
problem since then. In troubleshooting, I went through about 3 versions of
NVidia drivers, a couple sets of motherboard driver sets, audio drivers,
multiple re-installs of the game, etc. No joy. Swap cards, and not one
issue since.
Given the issues I've read about with other 7900/7600 card owners, I'd
probably try RMA'ing the card, and see if that fixes your issue.
Clint
"coolsti" <cool@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.08.13.08.50.06.468000@xxxxxxxxxx
Just put together a PC with an Asus motherboard A8N32SLI-Premium and an
Asus 7900GT video card. One card only, so no SLI. The PC works very well,
no problems at all, and the graphics are fantastic. But we have now
experienced two sudden freeze-ups when playing Guild Wars. The sound is
ok, we are still in the game (we are playing on two separate computers
together) but the screen is just frozen. If we go back to Windows, we
cannot get the game screen up again, and we cannot get any other
application, such as task manager, to function. The mouse does move
around, but retains the game's cursor.
I installed this card with default settings, and the Nvidia console says
it is clocking at 450/660.
After experiencing these problems, I installed the Asus Doctor software
that came with the card, which is supposed to allow overclocking among
other things. As soon as I had this software installed, without changing
any settings, the PC started to sound like a vacuum cleaner or jet engine.
Apparently with this Smart Doctor simply installed, the card cooler was
running at max speed or something. It also seemed that some sort of high
overclocking was implemented. It also did not look like I had the option
to return the clock speeds as low as 450/660 again using Smart Doctor,
unless I did not understand the settings. So I uninstalled Smart Doctor
again.
Can someone explain what is going on with the Asus 7900GT?
1) What is this utility Smart Doctor actually doing? And how should I use
it correctly? I don't want to overclock, in fact I would rather underclock
if that is what it takes to remove freezing in Guild Wars.
2) Why the freezes and what to do about it? I can see from internet
searches that freezing in games is an issue with the 7900GT, but in
overclocking situations, and that is not what I am doing here.
Any suggestions and tips are welcome!
Steve, Denmark
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