Sapphire9700pro and msiKT4-6590

hi
i´m on my thirdMSI6590 kt4 ultra-FISR:
the first one come to me with the fastrak jammed (crc errors during data trasnfer from my toshiba sd1602 to my maxtor40gb 7200rpm ata133) but sound on board ok
the second, the sound chip on board wasn´t there (hard to believe, but true, the people at the store were "#"#$?!.....), but fasttrk ok
the third, when i was thinking that "it´s going to be 3 for the good", the troubles with my radeon start (sapphire9700pro):
hangsup/stops/crash during games, in quake2 in opengl a error message comes (ati09xxx.dll file problem reported).
whats going up?
can someone helpme?
i found a thing by myself:
in the field AGP APERTURE SIZE in board bios, if i selct 64mb the games run but with VERY DROPS FRAMES but in opengl in quake2 the erro message stills.
if i select in the same field 128 or 256mb them everything happens: the game stops/crash after few seconds playing (even in 98se/me/2000/xp)
please help me or give me some idea...is the kt400 problem or the card.....i´m baaaaaa......with this thing.
regards

Hi,
As you didn't list much of your system, it's hard to figure your problems out.....
It could be just a PSU problem 8)

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