Big problems With G400 and Athlon Asus k7

[Jamie71]

Hi all
A bit of a Big problem
I get random freezing of my desktop/Opengl and D3D(I've tried 5.3 and 5.41 drivers ) sometimes after boot up all I get is a garbled display I've put my VIO down to 3.31v from 3.4 but this dose'nt seem to help I've turned off the Bus Mastering and this dose seem to help no more crashes but in 3d max 99 @ 640*480 32bit I got a score of 2500 Also whenever I enable AGP 2 on my G400 and play and 3d games like quake 2 U.T and Half life it freezes after 5-10 minutes, This dosen't happen if I disable it with the reg hacks (it AGP 2 So I'd like to run in AGP 2) or at least know why it dosen't want to play here are my specs:
Asus k7 Mobo
Athlon 650 (not o/c)
Matrox g400 DH
256 Generic Ram Cas 2 Pc100
Sonic Vortex 2 S/C (aureal 2)
IBM Deskstar 22gxp 13.5gb
Maxtor 90845D4 8.4gb
24x cd-rom (dvd player bust)
Iomega zip drive (external)
USB scanner
Philips cdr
FSP-300-60GT, 300w ATX PSU, +3v3 14A, +5v 30A, +12V 12A, +5Vsb 0.85A, -5V 0.3A, -12V 1A,

0 System timer
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
2 Programmable interrupt controller
3 Communications Port (COM2)
4 Communications Port (COM1)
5 SonicVortex2 Sound Blaster Pro Emulation
6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller
7 ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
8 System CMOS/real time clock
9 SonicVortex2 PCI Audio
9 SonicVortex2 Multifunction PCI Platform
9 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
10 VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
10 VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
10 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
11 Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English
11 IRQ Holder for PCI Steering
12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port
13 Numeric data processor
14 Primary Bus Master IDE controller (dual fifo)
14 VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller
15 Secondary Bus Master IDE controller (dual fifo)
15 VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller


Hope this helps
Thanks
Jamie 71

[Thomas Sempf]

Hello.

Try to use the aureal reference drivers.
I had the same probs with my Xelrate (Aureal 2), it crashes everytime i started a game, after installation of the aureal drivers all worked fine.

So good luck. :-))

[box]

Some small things that have helped me:

Set the VIO to 3.1(?)

Try setting your CAS Latency to 3 (I'm running my A700@798MHz so maybe that's just me)

Make sure your PCI latency is set to 64 (maybe try a higher number, see if that helps)

Never turn of busmastering, you only hurt performance this way.

And finally enable AGP2x.


Your IRQ's look fine by me, almost identical to my setup, so that's probably not it.

[matroxsuxs]

THE PROBLEM IS THAT MATROX DRIVERS SUX!! THEY NEED MAJOR UPDATES EVERY 2 WEEKS AND TO READ THESE FORUMS WHICH I DOUBT THEY DO BECAUSE I HAVE HAD THAT PROBLEM EVER SINCE I PURCHASED IT. OTHERS ARE ALSO SEEING THE "PLAID DEATH" PLEAGE! JUST EMAIL MATROX AND COMPLAIN...THATS WHAT I DID! IT JUST MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER!

[matroxsuxs]

THE PROBLEM IS THAT MATROX DRIVERS SUX!! THEY NEED MAJOR UPDATES EVERY 2 WEEKS AND TO READ THESE FORUMS WHICH I DOUBT THEY DO BECAUSE I HAVE HAD THAT PROBLEM EVER SINCE I PURCHASED IT. OTHERS ARE ALSO SEEING THE "PLAID DEATH" PLEAGE! JUST EMAIL MATROX AND COMPLAIN...THATS WHAT I DID! IT JUST MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER!

[Warchild]

**Looks around for his shotgun**

[CannyOne]

Thanks! Thomas and box! I'm taking notes. :-) But who's this other, um well, "POS"???

I guess it gets pretty bad when you can't follow suggestions and "set your system up properly"!!! (Just my 2¢ worth) I know other people are having problems. And with the help of the kind people on this forum, they are "working it out".

Sorry! I better go cause I'm starting to act almost as bad as he is.

[Vlip]

Was Just dreaming. Me in "my" trustfull M-109 Howitzer KAWEST having the opportunity to make a direct shoot at MS. (>1m*77cm^2*Pi of powder pushing 42kgs of steel right up his a**).

Woke up sadly, it was just a dream

Vlip, a sweet little student

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"A vaincre sans péril, l'on triomphe sans gloire"
Corneille

AMD Athlon 500, Asus K7M, 128Mb PC100 SDRAM, Matrox G400MAX, Sb Live and a lot more toys and gadgets.

[ALBPM]

Wow Vlip!!! Did the Swiss Army let you take your Howitzer home too??? Cool!!!

Paul

[Vlip]

No, ALBPM, they didn't accept this request. Didn't understand why! They said something about the SG-550 Assault rifle and the assault knife being enough. Kinda weird, would have been perfect to go shopping, wouldn't it?
25 tons of metal sucking a crazy amount of fuel only to start the engine. Making more noise than any computer speakers could never output. Vibrating like nothing in this world.

Well I believe I'll have to stay with "only" my Assault Rifle.

Vlip



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"A vaincre sans péril, l'on triomphe sans gloire"
Corneille

AMD Athlon 500, Asus K7M, 128Mb PC100 SDRAM, Matrox G400MAX, Sb Live and a lot more toys and gadgets.

[alessandro]

USUX??????

Every year ,there is always a new idiot in the forum that is aroused by making stupid comments and acting as a *****le.
Ther is always a cure in every disease like this one....JUST IGNORE HIM!!!