Bad powersupply? Help!
 

Does anyone know anything about power supply voltages? I have two log files of my computer before crashing direct3d apps here and here .

Is the voltage supposed to vary like that?

It seems that only Doom3, and UT2004 and other heavy direct3d programs will crash, the computer can run fine for days otherwise. I thought it may be a heat thing, but I ran Doom3 with the case open and a fan blowing right on the video card and it still died within minutes.

Sometimes the crashes are recoverable, the program just dies, other times it will require a reboot. It used to simply reboot, but now the apps just die.

I hope the video card itself isn't going bad.

Anyone know how to test the power supply? Any other ideas? Any input will be a big help.

i don't know what that means, but just out of curiosity, how many watts does that PSU dish out?

Oh yeah, I should have posted that info. It's 350watt (powering only one HD one CDROM and case fan and the videocard).

The card is a Radeon 9500.

i think it should be enough, but it might not be, if you have any spare PSU's thats more powerful might want to kook it up and see if it still fails (of lack of power)

other possibilities are a bad video card, or bad software .... ill assume you can play other direct3d games ok then? ... does opengl work?

I should have checked the web before trying to isolate the problem. It appears to be a problem with the Catalyst v4.8 drivers. And here I was with two separate power supplies connected into one computer for testing.

Who - would - have - thought - there - was - a - problem - with - ATIs - drivers - !

Thanks for the assistance though. I can't wait for my next nVidia card.