Lockup on VMR9

[pastro]

Just put together an older system (2600+ AMD Athlon XP, VIA KT400 chipset) for PVRX2 and whenever I play files using vmr9 custom, it locks up and I have to reboot the system. If I play them using overlay, it all works fine.
I'm guessing it's the video drivers, but was throwing it out here to see if anyone has had a problem like this.

[daveid]

what video card are you using? does it support directx9?

[pastro]

what video card are you using? does it support directx9?

Yeah it's a 9600pro from ati. It was previously working fine with a 1.8 Ghz Celeron. On the new system, it's not doing so well.

[daveid]

have you installed the via 4in1 or hyperion drivers for your chipset?

[pastro]

have you installed the via 4in1 or hyperion drivers for your chipset?

I did install the 4in1 drivers and the latest graphics drivers. I installed the latest audio drivers as well.

I messed with it a bit tonight, and strangely it I don't use RealVNC at the same time it doesn't seem to lock up. Haven't ever known vnc to cause troubles.

Edit: It ran for more than an hour, but it finally locked up, so even though VNC makes it worse, it didn't fix it.

[nitrogen_widget]

Try dropping the AGP port to 4X
I had the same problem in a non PVR machine & that card.
Changing the AGP speed made the problem go away.

[pastro]

Try dropping the AGP port to 4X
I had the same problem in a non PVR machine & that card.
Changing the AGP speed made the problem go away.

It's at 20 minutes and running with AGP set to 4x. Thanks for the suggestion.
ah crap it locked up at 30minutes

[nitrogen_widget]

It's at 20 minutes and running with AGP set to 4x. Thanks for the suggestion.
ah crap it locked up at 30minutes

The only other thing I can suggest is to take a look at the power supply.
Is it strong enough?
I do recall I also had to buy a new PSU for that PC.
but, I was going from an AthlonXP to an Athlon 64.

Is something overheating?
At next crash, on the reboot go into bios & check the voltage & temp measurements.

Maybe the voltage is too low or the temps too high?

[pastro]

The only other thing I can suggest is to take a look at the power supply.
Is it strong enough?
I do recall I also had to buy a new PSU for that PC.
but, I was going from an AthlonXP to an Athlon 64.

Is something overheating?
At next crash, on the reboot go into bios & check the voltage & temp measurements.

Maybe the voltage is too low or the temps too high?

I temp on the CPU is at 51C which seemed a little high, but it doesn't budge when decoding. The AGP measured at 1.45 so I upped that to the next setting and it still crashed.
Bummer, probably will have to go back to the old board and scrap this one.

[daveid]

just a shot in the dark, but did you reinstall windows when switching motherboards?
hadn't noticed till your last post that you switched motherboards and had assumed this was a fresh build.