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post #61 of 94
4/6/04 at 4:55am
Whoa, there, I thought the card would fail in the 3dmark03 test if it was bad... Is this not a conclusive test?

B.
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post #62 of 94
4/6/04 at 8:17am

3dMark / BF1942

I' ran through 5 loops of 3dmark last night with no problems, but locked up in BF1942 after 20 minutes.
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post #63 of 94
4/6/04 at 8:39am
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Originally Posted by lgriffin
I' ran through 5 loops of 3dmark last night with no problems, but locked up in BF1942 after 20 minutes.
Ditto
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post #64 of 94
4/6/04 at 8:42am

Conclusive Test

I just applied that Bios update, not sure if it will do anything but...

Does anyone have a CONCLUSIVE test for the GPU that the computer can run by itself? I searched some of Karl's earlier posts but couldn't find an automated test other than 3dmark.
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post #65 of 94
4/6/04 at 9:05am
Igriffin what bios update? Is it supposed to help? So far I've been playing UT2004 and no problems like last nite.
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post #66 of 94
4/6/04 at 12:03pm
Applied the Bios update, rad 3dMark 6 times and played BF1942 for about 45 minutes and no lock-ups. Hmmmmm!? Anyone else find it seeming to help?
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post #67 of 94
4/6/04 at 12:26pm
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Originally Posted by AV8ing
Applied the Bios update, rad 3dMark 6 times and played BF1942 for about 45 minutes and no lock-ups. Hmmmmm!? Anyone else find it seeming to help?
I've also applied the update, but haven't tried it on BF1942 yet. Ran 3dmark for about 30 minutes this morning though with no lockups. I'm hoping we are experiencing a BF1942 specific issue AV8ing (The ATI website says there is an issue with that game: http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4081.html).

Read Karl's post for full details on the entire scope of this irritating issue: http://notebookforums.com/showthread...ht=hard+lockup
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post #68 of 94
4/6/04 at 12:27pm
av8ing, so it helped eliminate your lock up issues when playing bf1942?

if so, great news
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post #69 of 94
4/6/04 at 12:58pm
Played 2 rounds of instant action on BF1942, around 45 minutes and not a lock-up yet. That was immediately after 6 consecutive runs of 3dmark. Hopefully this did it. I'll try to play a little longer later when the little guy is down for his nap.
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post #70 of 94
4/6/04 at 1:59pm
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Originally Posted by AV8ing
Played 2 rounds of instant action on BF1942, around 45 minutes and not a lock-up yet. That was immediately after 6 consecutive runs of 3dmark. Hopefully this did it. I'll try to play a little longer later when the little guy is down for his nap.
Sweet
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post #71 of 94
4/7/04 at 10:01am
Well, BF1942 ran for over an hour with no lock-ups, although I did notice a couple of times where it did stutter a bit. Call of Duty is another story, though. About 3 minutes max before a lock-up. D'oh! I'm hoping this is just a CoD thing, although somebody reportedly was able to run it no problem, so maybe a card swap is still in order.

Karl, after your card swap and/or the Bios update, did you still have the problems with CoD?
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post #72 of 94
4/7/04 at 10:10am
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Originally Posted by AV8ing
Well, BF1942 ran for over an hour with no lock-ups, although I did notice a couple of times where it did stutter a bit.
Same thing here. I ran BF1942 for about 30 minutes last night, and then played lineage II for about 30 minutes ( both times are the longest yet before a crash ). Yesterday during the day, I set 3dmark03 on loop for 10 times at a very high setting and when i came home the machine was fine. I'm pretty confident the patch fixed it. The whole COD thing i'm gaming is COD specific.
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post #73 of 94
4/7/04 at 10:56am
Disabled hyper-threading via Bios, and was able to play for 10 to 15 minutes. Never locked, little guy dragged me away. I'll try playing with it, hopefully, later today.
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post #74 of 94
4/7/04 at 11:46am
AV8ing, i've read in some previous post somewhere that when disabling or enabling hyperthreading in the bios, you had to reinstall the OS or reformat your hard drive, can't remember which one i read. Is this true?
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post #75 of 94
4/7/04 at 12:05pm
No, it's a lie, at least on the XPS. It's about 4 pages into the BIOS setup. Ran fine with it disabled. Maybe on other machines it's required though.
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post #76 of 94
4/7/04 at 12:17pm
what does hyper threading do anyway? and how much of a boost does it give in general to game speeds?
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post #77 of 94
4/7/04 at 12:32pm
Thread Starter 
Yeah, CoD appears to work fine if you disable HT.

I haven't tried the bios upgrade on the "broken" xps (I should probably be shipping that to Dell soon). But I may do so this weekend if I'm up to it.

I just recently started getting back into Shadowbane (since Lineage 2 seems like the same BS leveling treadmill that offers not much more than pretty graphics and funny looking dark elves running headfirst into everything).
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post #78 of 94
4/7/04 at 12:49pm
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Originally Posted by Karl
I just recently started getting back into Shadowbane (since Lineage 2 seems like the same BS leveling treadmill that offers not much more than pretty graphics and funny looking dark elves running headfirst into everything).



LOL
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post #79 of 94
4/7/04 at 4:40pm
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Originally Posted by Karl
Dell's the only one that has the default core set to 464mhz. The rest are clocked significantly lower.

Except that Adam at pctorque clocked his 9700 in the test Sager 8790 to 500/300 and had no issues whatsoever. Other 8790 owners have not reported any unusual video problems.

Sager 8790/ATI 9700 clocking thread
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post #80 of 94
4/7/04 at 6:25pm
Looks like Dell is claiming a fix. Perhaps you guys should try this. I put it on mine and I have and no lockups since.

http://forums.us.dell.com/supportfor...sage.id=112452
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