I have a Sapphire Radeon X800GTO 256mb GDDR3 AGP video card. When I'm playing World of Warcraft my video just dies after 30minutes and the monitor goes into stand by. My drivers are all up-to-date and I've tried both Omega and Catalyst and I've tried older drivers, nothing works. If I can get the task manager up really fast before the monitor sleeps then my computer acts like the video card drivers were uninstalled until I restart the computer. Windows XP says the source of the problem is ati2mag.sys . I'm not the greatest with this kind of stuff so I don't know how to fix it, though I built this computer. My CPU is an AMD Venice 3000+ (2.0GHz) Socket 754, Gigabyte K8NS motherboard, 2GB ddr400 memory, 650w psu. I'm not sure what could be causing this, it started about 3 weeks ago. Any help you guys can give would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
2007-07-26 15:38:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
How would I check the temperature?
2007-07-26 16:14:17 · update #1
i dont know bro but see ya at home luv ya
2007-07-30 14:31:57 · answer #1 · answered by Sexy_Lady_1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Power supply issue, open your computer and check your power supply watts, and look at your radeon x800 gto's box and look at its requirements for W's on the power supply. Compare
Also, don't overclock it using ATI's control center, it'll burn it faster.
It could also be your fan, but usually is not the issue. If it only happens on WoW, it's probably the video card and not your other hardware.
Update your drivers from ATI and check on the control center about your video card heat on ATI overdrive, my video card is 50*c in standby as of night right now.
My powersupply was weak too, it's too weak for my x1950.
Im running it on a 300 w powersupply and it's supposed to be using a 450. You must own a weak powersupply. Open it up and make sure every wire is disconnected(computer obviously off) and look at the huge chunk of metal. read it and hopefully it meets the requirements of the video card.
Overall:
If it doesn't meet the requirements, it's the power supply.
If it does meet the requirements, it's the fan.
Oh, and those people who keep nattering about viruses and worms and stuff are annoying, thinking its ALWAYS the problem. However if you don't have a anti-virus , you should get one and scan.
2007-07-26 16:37:36 · answer #2 · answered by Cool Calm Tom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds to me like your video card is overheating and the fail safe is kicking in. Try taking the side of your computer off and blowing a fan on it and see if it last longer if not go to the link below for support.
2007-07-26 15:59:13 · answer #3 · answered by techspecialist 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is your computer staying cool? Is the graphics card overheating? It is summer time. Open your computer and see if the card is super hot. Sometimes a hot card may shut down to protect the GPU.
2007-07-26 15:59:23 · answer #4 · answered by Diane S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. A quick search gave me this: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=deskbar&q=ati2mag.sys+
Maybe some of the forums can help.
2007-07-26 15:45:01 · answer #5 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋