What sort of mobo are you running this card on? Your problem *could* be that your mobo can't put enough power through to your graphics card. I had that problem with a FIC socket 7 board when trying anything more powerfull than a SiS 6326... After months of pestering FIC they finally admitted tha my board can't handle the power demands of the TNT2 card (that I've tried about 5 different ones of). Just a possibility... While on the subject, I see that the Radeon 9700 has a power connector (stiffy drive type) on the card, to make sure the card gets enough juice Hans Thom Nuzum wrote:

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Odd... this looks ok, but you say the machine crashes when you run a 3D app? Does this include "gears"?

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