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| 86491 | 2002-10-05 23:24:00 | We have a 566 MHz computer running Win 98SE with 192 mb of Ram. We had a new graphics card inserted so we could keep up with later games for the kids. Our new card is a Gainward GeForce2 MX 400, 32MB, PCI. The computer is now locking up completely in any games using lots of graphics. Most games (Duke Nukem Manhattan Project for example) will start fine but then lock. We have to reboot to get going again. Any help appreciated. |
Jakeb (2156) | ||
| 86492 | 2002-10-06 00:35:00 | more specs might be helpful. motherboard? cpu type? |
loser (538) | ||
| 86493 | 2002-10-06 01:15:00 | Make sure your DirectX is up to date - version 8.1 You can download it from Microsofts site or there are heaps of other sites. Just make sure you do not get a beta version of direct X (make sure its full and final retail release). You just run it reboot and its all done. The other thing to try is to go to www.nvidia.com and download the latest WHQL certified detonator/reference driver set (version 30.82). Make sure you get the set for your particular version of Windows. Its just a full install exe so you run it reboot and away you go. What was the card you had before in the machine? |
John Grieve (367) | ||
| 86494 | 2002-10-29 09:27:00 | Have had a similar prob with Nvidia based cards and Win98SE. Check that the graphics card is not sharing it's IRQ with any other card (in my case was a network card). All I did was to change my Microsoft mouse from the PS2 Port to one of the USB connections, rebooted the computer and it automatically assigned the network card to IRQ12 and Bobs your aunty. My computer has not crashed for 2 days so far instead of crashing a minimum of two times a night or more often when the kids played games. I have done the same thing on another puter with very similar specs to yours with the same result. Give it a try. |
Toes (2157) | ||
| 86495 | 2002-10-29 09:33:00 | u could try beefing up the processor from 500mhz to like 700mhz, and adding a bit more ram so that u have 256mb, and also defrag and scandisc regularly. This should have some very good results on the end performance of ur computer. cheers, v.K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 86496 | 2002-10-30 06:46:00 | My computer is a Duron 1200, 256 meg ram (now 3 days & no crashes) The other is a Pentium 2, 128 meg ram. I am pretty sure the Nvidia cards (Mine a TNT M64 Riva, the other a MX440 I think) just hate sharing there IRQ address. |
Toes (2157) | ||
| 86497 | 2002-10-30 07:34:00 | Thank-you for your help. One thing that is puzzling me is that SiSoft Sandra tells me my video card does not have 3D accelerated hardware. Surely this is what I bought?? She also says that my PCI latency is too high and could hog the bus for too long. Further specs are Intel Celeron 566 MHz, microstar MS-6309 motherboard, VIA technologies chipset, 10Gb harddrive. | Jakeb (2156) | ||
| 86498 | 2002-10-30 08:19:00 | You said you bought a PCI video card, which does not have the hardware acceleration that an AGP card has. Your motherboard should have an AGP slot, as I looked it up on the web. The PCI card would be lower performance, why did you not use an AGP? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 86499 | 2002-10-30 23:53:00 | I bought this graphics card because the computer shop (where we bought the original computer) told me it would be the best. They put it in and told me everything would run beautifully. Our original card was a Trio 3D/2x which was then replaced with an nvidia TNT2 which also caused lock ups. They told me there was a fault with those ones and gave me this one. I have looked at the IRQ settings and find that the display adapter shares 11 with a VIA tech 3038 PCI to USB universal host controller. Could this be a problem. If it is I have no idea how to change IRQ settings. Thanks | Jakeb (2156) | ||
| 86500 | 2002-11-05 08:45:00 | If you have an AGP slot in your computer and the dealer sold you a PCI card you should go back and jump up and down and maybe ask for a free equiv upgrade. Print all this out and take it with you and get him to sort also. My computer has just kept on ticking since I sorted it (positivly boring) I spent a lot of hours trying to work out what the problem was. In my case, just removing the mouse from the PS2 port and plugging it into the USB port automaticly re-distributed the IRQ assignments to IRQ12 and off IRQ11. The one you mention that is sharing with your graphics card was the other one that moved to IRQ12 in my case. You may have to right click on my computer-properties-device manager and manualy remove the offending items from IRQ11, reboot windows, and let it reassign the items as it starts up. You may need the relevant system drivers to do this but is worth a try and you cannot go to far wrong. Good luck |
Toes (2157) | ||
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