[RESOLVED] ATI problem round 2 *ding* *ding* *ding*

Okay guys, I have searched all over the internet and you are my last hope. :'(

My brother's ATI RADEON 8500 seems to freeze whenever it is drawing 3D models (running games) of any kind and these are the things I know isn't the problem.

• Temperature - If I make it any more cooler it would give you frostbite
• RAM - 640MB of RAM =/
• Card fault - I just know it isn't because it was working fine weeks ago and I have not made any hardware changes
  

So guys, can any of you help me with this really annoying fault?

Sounds like a driver/kernel issue. I recommend upgrading to the newest released driver. If you are still having the same trouble try downgrading to a more stable version.

The card and drivers are technically stable, as all unstable elements (to my knowledge) have been removed. Thanks for trying to help though.

Bump.....

It also started when I added a PCI LAN card in it (because the board didn't have a LAN connection), I also noticed in the BIOS there is something called "Voltage Spread Spectrum" which is set to 5.0 and has other choices such as 7.5. This also made me think about the problems other people are the internet has had, saying that it could be the voltage.

Shall I take off the PCI LAN card to check if that makes it stable or increase the spread spectrum?

On second thought I'm thinking this is a power supply issue. Open up your box and take a look at your power supply. Read me off the voltage in watts. This would make sense considering you installed a new PCI card which is drawing more power from your PSU so when you try and play a graphicly intensive game your power supply can't give power to the graphics card causing it to freeze.

Let me know on your wattage.

Found out the problem, the CPU was clocking WAY above it's normal speed. Thanks anyway!