DAMN IS THERE ANYWAY TO SOLVE THIS

[motub]

I agree with IceStorm, but....<u>DOES IT WORK</U>?????

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Holly

[Borg]

my god ! yeeesssss ! thats looks much more like it !!!!

work well done !

is it OK now ??

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PIII450@465,P2b,128mb,Matrox Mill-G400 32SH,SB.Live !(value)...

[motub]

Cool!!!

Now run some graphics-heavy, 3D sound enabled game... if it runs and looks and sounds good, then we'll know...

Good luck with the ACID TEST...!

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Holly

[Scytale]

Never mind those two love birds... Just clean up your IRQ 11!

[Alfie]

What happened to irq 10?
See if you can't assign it to your soundcard.
Try the lazy man's approach 1st.
settings-control panel-device manager-system.
Click on the soundcard,click on resources,uncheck use automatic settings,click on irq (interrupt request),a screen pops up(hopefully) and change irq from 11 to 10.
You may also get a screen stating this cannot be changed,try the same with the video card,if you can't change the soundcard.
If this fails track down which slot your soundcard is on pci 1,pci 2,etc and through bios assign irq 10 to this slot.Hopefully this works.
OOPS! I didn't see page 2.Glad this has been resolved,
Also glad to see the entire forum moving in such a positive way.Isn't this , what's it all about?
Still not to sure about the contollers and sound card on the same irq(10),but not to despair,if theres a conflict you still got irq 9!

[This message has been edited by Alfie (edited 21 October 1999).]

[This message has been edited by Alfie (edited 21 October 1999).]

[rylan]

About the second Serial port(looks like COM4 in your irq listings). Almost nobody uses two of those. If you have two devices that actually use serial ports, then you'd hav eot leave them on, but most people use one (if that) and so normally diable the second one to free up an irq.


[This message has been edited by rylan (edited 21 October 1999).]

[Snark]

I think I'll just kill myself...... Yesterday BEFORE I switched the IRQ settings, I opened up the casing and ran the system as usual with the casing off, and HL ran fine. Today, after changing the IRQ settings, I opened up the casing and ran HL. At the loading screen, where it said '1013 CRC Server 1' or whatever, it LOCKED AGAIN!!!I don't know if its a heat problem or what, because I tried with and without the casing and the system still froze.

Sigh, back to the drawing board.



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My CPU: PIII 500 Mhz (no oc)
SB Live (Full)
Millenium G400 32 mb DH (no MAX)
256 mb SDRam (No ECC)
ABit BE-6 mb
17 GB Seagate ATA 66 HDD
SoundWorks FPS 2000
US Robotics modem
40x NEC CD-Rom
17" Philips 107MB monitor

--Everyone wants a snarky... ...YEAH RIGHT--

[wars]

I'm not sure if anyone has even asked this question yet, but is halflife the only game in which you're having problems?? Try another game and see if you can produce similar results.

wars

[Snark]

Anyone knows if Panzer Dragoon is compatible with the G400? I tried running it as a test but I got crappy results. The whole game's graphics are screwed up...... And oh yeah, the infamous desktop crashes are baaack

Updated the IRQs a bit as I realized I did'nt have a CD-ROM drive
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00- System Timer
01- Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
02- Programmable interuupt controller
03- COM4
04- COM1
05- Creative SB16 Emulation
06- Standard Floppy Disk Controller
07- ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
08- System CMOS/Real Time Clock
09- Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
09- IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
10- Matrox G400 AGP - English
10- IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
11- HPT 366 Ultra DMA Controller
11- HPT 366 Ultra DMA Controller
11- Creative SB Live
11- IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
13- Numeric data processor
14- Intel 82371ab/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
14- Primary IDE controller (dual fifo)
15- Intel 82371ab/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
15- Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)


RE: wars...
Yes I have tried running other games namely Shadowman and Starcraft, and both give me no problems at all. HL USED to be fault free, until I DLed the 5.30 drivers and the TurboGL. Anyone thinks that these drivers may be the reason?
I've been running my system without casing for the whole day but the lockups just keep coming! Heeellpp....



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My CPU: PIII 500 Mhz (no oc)
SB Live (Full)
Millenium G400 32 mb DH (no MAX)
256 mb SDRam (No ECC)
ABit BE-6 mb
17 GB Seagate ATA 66 HDD
SoundWorks FPS 2000
US Robotics modem
40x NEC CD-Rom
17" Philips 107MB monitor

--Everyone wants a snarky... ...YEAH RIGHT--

[rylan]

Have you tried removing and reseating the G400? I remember a lot of posts recently (and I think pertaining to your mobo.. could be wrong though) about the G400 being not quite seated properly in the agp slot, which causes some odd random problems depending on the weather, temp, etc. you get the point.. its random.
Anyway, try that and make sure the card fingers are in there straight and all the way.

[Snark]

I think I'll just cry.

[motub]

I really don't like the looks of IRQ 11-- the Live! on the same IRQ as both ATA 66 controllers just can't be good.. I doubt that the Live! wants to share with even one of them.

Since you only have 1 ATA 66 device, first of all disable the 2nd Ultra 66 controller. That solves 1/2 the problem, but you still don't have a free IRQ to separate the Live! from the other controller...

It's time for more drastic measures.

We're going to make Windows straighten this out... I say, let's just redetect <u>all</u> the HW and see what happens then.

Don't worry, it's tedious, but it's not dangerous... not yet, anyway, and we'll do this the safer way.

Get all your driver disks for all your hardware.

Boot into Safe Mode (by hitting F5 when you see "Starting Windows 98" in your boot screen). Open up the Device Manager (make sure the list is set to "view devices by type".

Bet you've got a sh*tload of HW listed that is either off the system now, or appears multiple times... but I'm just guessing, it doesn't matter.

Starting from the top of the list, select <u>each and every piece of hardware</u> (but NOT any System Devices!!! too much trouble), and remove it.

Windows will warn you, ask you to shut down or restart multiple times... just 'Cancel' the requests until you have removed all devices.

Shut down. If you have to move any jumpers to disable that Ultra 66 controller, do it now.

Turn the computer back on. If you need to change any BIOS settings (to disable that serial port, for example), do it now, by hitting 'Del' or F1, whichever your PC says, at the initial POST screen.

When Windows starts, it will have to find all of your HW again, and assign resources from a blank slate. It will ask for drivers, incessantly, and/or the Win98 disk. The fast and dirty way to give Windows the drivers it wants is to browse to C:\Windows\System (or \System32) whenever it asks... after all, the drivers are already installed. Or, you can install them again from disk/CD.

Hopefully, Windows will allocate resources (IRQs) more sensibly this time. Check 'em and see if it has, and how the system then runs.

Another way of doing this is to delete the HW tree in the registry... but screwing around directly in the registry is risky business and I'm not going there... somebody else can tell you about that, if it seems needful.

Anybody else got a better idea?

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Holly

[ALBPM]

Since your using your AT/66 Hard drive you should disable the Primary IDE in your Bios.

Paul

[KvHagedorn]

Holly, whatever you are doing now jobwise, i think you should quit and write computer books or teach a course. You might not be the geekiest geek on the block, but you explain things well.

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[wars]

"HL USED to be fault free, until I DLed the 5.30 drivers and the TurboGL. Anyone thinks that these drivers may be the reason?"

yes. If you were having no problems b4 updating the drivers, then it might just simply be a driver issue. Remove the newest update and restore the previous drivers. Looking over your irq list you have both com1 and com2/com4 enabled (assigned IRQs). Looking at your list, it looks like you're using a serial mouse, so you might not be able to disable com1...however unless your modem is using com2/com4, disable it in bios to free up an irq.

wars