New PC unstable...Seems Video Issues

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JeremyAMD

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MSI / VIA K8T800 K8T NEO-FSR (MS-6702 ATX)
AMD 64 3200+ ATHLON 64 Retail Box
Power Color RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB
80GB SEAGATE ST380013AS S-ATA
2 x 512MB Kingston PC 2700 RAM
400 Watt Power Supply
3 Case Fans
Approx 360 Watts of power used
Heres the problem:
Upon first load of OS, everything seemed to load correctly. Ran Aquamark 3. It crashed out with an Access error. Re ran AQMark 3 and it asked me to reset my audio and video setting to default. I did that and the test went thru with a bench mark of 38,379. Rebooted, installed Everquest. After loggin onto the server and geting to the Charecter select screen it blue screened, no errors and PC auto rebooted. When it came back on I went to the advanced setting for system recovery and uncheck the auto reboot option. Ran Everquest again got into game and 5 minutes later system lockup. No blue screen this time and no error code. Rebooted one more time. Ran EQ and same thing about 5 minutes later poof. Blue screen this time with the memory dump text and an error about replace your VGA Adapter. Reinstalled OS a few more time with the same results. I Updated all chipset drivers, flashed Main Board using their online flash tool, had all the latest drivers for audio/video/lan etc. Tried one last time with system lock up in game again. Are there any known good driver sets or compatabilty problems with any of my components. I couldn't find any. Thanks in advance.
 
I had the same problem with EQ on my 1.3 ghz athlon with my radeon 9700 pro and 1gb ram. No matter what settings I used or what effects i turned off it would keep doing the same thing. The funny thing is EQ was the only program that I had that problem in. since your seeing it in other games and software then maybe its something else
I dunno. I havent been able to re-test since I upgraded because my internet wont be active until march 12th o_0 (i'm typing this at work). I just have no faith in verant software :nooo:

Sithicas, 53rd season Bard, Tribunal
 
Yeah I was thinking about using just One stick of the Ram to see what happens. I had no problem with my Athlon XP 2100+ with the same type of ram...I even used the ram from my old pc to make sure it wasn't bad sticks...I do not think it is a Ram issue.
 
Dang well I guess I can send the ram I have back and get a higher speed. I was hoping it was something that simple. BTW Bludletters 65 Shaman of Xev
 
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