VPU Failure

livewire · 03-17-2005, 05:40 AM

Lately I've been having major probs with my radeon 9800 pro 256 mb. During gameplay for any given title, it could either blue screen and give me a memory dump, or do what its been doing frequently as of late which is have a VPU Failure or something. The game would freeze, say midplay in CoD, and then sit for about 5 seconds, then a close program box would pop-up followed by a nasty error message saying I have to have a VPU Recovery or something.

Could this be my gpu overheating perhaps? I have a huge thermaltake with 5+ case fans... I must have gotten this error three times today alone, and garbled screen comes along with it. Any ideas?

Akherousin · 03-17-2005, 07:01 AM

Yes, overheating is most probably the problem. Have you checked if the heatsink sits (still) properly on the chip? (Mine fell away once and the GPU burned out

)
Although if you don't have any artifacts otherwise, the problem could be occured by something different. I guess the card worked fine the other time? How old is it?

Kacperski · 03-17-2005, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Akherousin@Mar 17 2005, 03:01 AM
(Mine fell away once and the GPU burned out )

?? :Oo:
What card was that? Haven't seen them mounted otherwise than with plastic "legs" on decent cards for centuries...

Akherousin · 03-17-2005, 06:27 PM

Was a 9800 Pro (Hercules Prophet) and the plastic legs as you called them just broke.

livewire · 03-18-2005, 12:24 AM

Thx --

The card is fairly new, about a year old. From looking at it I cant see any abnormalities. I suppose its just one of those problems-

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Akherousin is on the 5th circle: Wrath & Sullenness Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Posts: 1,927 Hellbux: 1,393 TraumaticA	Yes, overheating is most probably the problem. Have you checked if the heatsink sits (still) properly on the chip? (Mine fell away once and the GPU burned out ) Although if you don't have any artifacts otherwise, the problem could be occured by something different. I guess the card worked fine the other time? How old is it? __________________

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Akherousin is on the 5th circle: Wrath & Sullenness Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Posts: 1,927 Hellbux: 1,393 TraumaticA	Was a 9800 Pro (Hercules Prophet) and the plastic legs as you called them just broke. __________________

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03-17-2005, 05:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
livewire is on the 1st circle: Limbo Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2 Hellbux: 380	Lately I've been having major probs with my radeon 9800 pro 256 mb. During gameplay for any given title, it could either blue screen and give me a memory dump, or do what its been doing frequently as of late which is have a VPU Failure or something. The game would freeze, say midplay in CoD, and then sit for about 5 seconds, then a close program box would pop-up followed by a nasty error message saying I have to have a VPU Recovery or something. Could this be my gpu overheating perhaps? I have a huge thermaltake with 5+ case fans... I must have gotten this error three times today alone, and garbled screen comes along with it. Any ideas?

03-18-2005, 12:24 AM	#5 (permalink)
livewire is on the 1st circle: Limbo Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2 Hellbux: 380	Thx -- The card is fairly new, about a year old. From looking at it I cant see any abnormalities. I suppose its just one of those problems-