pIII-450@600 and G400 HELP!!!!

[MariusT]

Hi.
I've tortured my cpu/system with both "CPU-stability-tester", various
3d-benchmarks and matrox tech demo.
All of these work flawlessly, not a single crash. I even get ROCK STABLE 6/6
in the stability-tester after a long time.

However my system randomly hangs in some games like Driver and Delta Force
2.
Could this be an AGP-problem?? (agp bus is at 89mhz, agp 1x)
Do you think this is game-glitches or isn't my system stable after all??

My system:
p3-450@600
Abit BH6 rev. 1.01
Matrox G-400 32MB (not sharing with anything at IRQ9)
256MB pc-133 ram
IBM ATA/66 7200rpm 23gb
Maxtor diamond max 7200rpm 9gb
Creative SB pci-128
Creative dxr3-dvd
Yamaha 6x4x16 cdr
Eicon diva 2.0 ISDN adapter
+++

Bios:
133 fsb
sel100/66 signal HIGH
Level2 Latency DEFAULT
agp 2/3
2.2v

AGP aparture size 64MB (I have tried with ranges from 32-256MB, No differ.)

Thanks for your help
Marius.

[Stringy]

it might be the AGP... I've gotten my G200 upto 150Mhz FSB, and it's rock stable with only a few differences from your setup...

I'd set your AGP apeture to 128, because of your large main memory..
and maybe set the CAS latency to 3, because this timing might help out the AGP if it's trying to access a noisy memory buss...


goodluck
Craig

[This message has been edited by Stringy (edited 13 November 1999).]

[ALBPM]

Try setting your L2 cache to 8 instead of default. This sounds strange but when I was overclocking a P3-450 (the default for P3-450's is 8) I had much better success by using 8 rather than (Default).

Above 8 disables the L2 cache which will slow down performance. You might try lower setting EG.: 7,6,5 and see how your system performs.

Also you might even increase your voltage to 2.3 V. Hope you have a good heatsink/fans on your P3

Paul

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