Sorry, I forgot to say that I am running WinXP Pro SP1, and I am still running version 1003 of the bios that came with the board.

badkitty109

great. glad to hear it. can you please tell me the part number of the ati board? the last 2 digits? XXXXX-XXX-30? - or -20? or ---10? or 00 ???
I think this matters the most. it is the revisions of the board. it appears -30 is the stable one.
mine in 00 and it crashes constantly.
Has anyone tried a 9800 pro yet? I am serioulsy thinking of getting rid of this in favor of the 9800 pro or a Nvidia 5800 Ultra.
Any input will be appreciated.

Mike

Just checked my Radeon 9700 Pro part number. It's XXX-XXXXX-11, and it's been working perfectly in 8x mode with the P4C800, but I was experiencing both problems with the P4G8X (kickback to 4 bit color, and lockup in games).

The 9800pro works perfectly fine with the p4g8x, i have not had any crashes at all.
I get just under 6000score in 3dmark03

Alex,
that's great. I've ordered the Hercules 9800Pro as well, hope this works out great. You have P4G8X rev. 1.03 as well?

Thx,
Ho

ALEX...THANKS FOR REPLYING. i HOPE A FEW MORE PEOPLE TAKE THE TIME TO REPLY. I have about 10 days left to return my video card, then the 30 day period is up. I have the p4c800 and want it to run stable. That is not asking for too much. So, if you have a stable combination of P4C800 and Radeon 9800 pro...please let us know.

If P4G8X works with R9800Pro, it is very likely that the new Canterwood chipset will work as well, shouldn't it?

A person could assume that it would work....but on the other hand, I also assumed that a p4g8x would also work with a 9700/9500 pro series as well, but as this thread bears out it does not. So, I am not assuming anything at this point.

Anyway, let's hope it does work, because I'm able to exchange my 9700 for a 9800 and only pay for the difference, but I'm allowed to do it once... fingers crossed again...

First i would like to thank delaminak for his reply....it helped me...something else...my system doesnt crash but in unreal 2 when running in 1280*1024 mode and everything in the best quality.it may hung up (just a litle)...sometimes.i have 1 G ram and a 2.53 p4.is this normal ?something else...how can i know what is my cards rev?

The rev number is usally printed on the topleft corner of the radeon card itself (P/N xxxxxxxxx). The rev. number for the motherboard I think is somewhere on an edge of the board.

Heya,

I am using the p4g8x + ATI brand 9800 pro, 1.04 bios.

Ok guys I just ordered an Asus P4C800, a Pentium 2.6 Ghz (800 Mhz FSB) and A Radeon 9700 Pro Rev 30. Is there anyone that has a P4C800 and a rev 30 or higher card and is still having problems? Also is there anyone that isnt having any problems at all with that combo? I am hoping I'm safe since the motherboard manual states you need 30 or higher for stability and overclocking. Let me know, thanks.
Stro

Is there an exchange possible by asus or by ati? or do you change it at the reseller?
At the moment i´ve change to a gf4 mx but thats real s**t. but everything works correctly.

ASUS wont do trade in

Mike, in response to your question, the last two digits in the PN are 10

badkitty109

eek.. i made a mistake.. my 3dmaRK SCORE IS 4048... I'M SURE IT WAS 5??? LAST WEEK. HMMM.

Hello all, thanks for all the helpful info in this thread. I just wanted to throw in my recent experience. I recently bought a p4g8x/radeon 9700 combo (with a 3.06 GHz P4) The first thing I did was to install WinXP. Well no matter what I did crash crash crash crash crash. Everything I tried would just get crashes within 5 seconds in any game, any benchmark, or anything that required any graphics of any kind.

After hours of frustration, I just reformatted and went with Win2K Pro, and let me tell you I have not seen a single crash at all, nada, none so far with any game, app, 3d mark, anything. I've been starting to fool around with different settings and such to increase performance (measly 12000's in 3dmark2001) but at least my system is stable which is the most important to me.

But I want to say thanks to MS for finally convincing me to NEVER even bother trying WinXP again. Over the last year or so this has been at least my 6th attempt to give WinXP a shot and try to get to work for me, but this time is has failed so miserably I doubt I will ever try again. Win2K all the way.

Russ

I have found WinXP Pro to be rock solid, it has never crashed on me and I mean NEVER...I've been running it since September, on my old computer and then on this new one I built 3 weeks ago.

badkitty109

Well, at least you have found something that will work for you (Win2k). Honestly, I think they are both great OSs to run (much better than MS's previous attempts). However, I think that if you got the latest chipset utility from intel for the p4g8x, the latest intel application accelerator, latest bios, etc... You would be able to get it running fine under XP. I was having problems for a long time (the same problems experienced in this forum, but after upgrading to the newest chipset utility, and reinstalling the OS, my machine hasn't failed on me once. And that is running 8X AGP with Fast Writes on... I am fixing to reformat the whole system, so I can make a clean ghost image of it, when I do, I will post the EXACT step by step working installation of my system for anyone who cares to try it out..