Millenium II + Monster II + AMD K6-200: game locks up after some minutes! Help

[Moonstar]

Hi, I am trying to get a Millenium II running together with a Diamond Monster II under Win98 on an Asus TX-97X with an AMD K6 200 CPU. After a few minutes every game just locks up (freezes). 3Dmark 99 and 2000 freezes also after a couple of minutes.

- It is not a heat problem.
- Monster II runs forever on a PII-350 on a 440BX chipset. No problems at all.
- latest bios, latest drivers, latest directx
- remapped E/A of Monster to higher values
- Put Monster in all other available PCI slots.

This combo did run under Win95 using DirectX 5 with Diamonds 2.203 drivers. But since then (July 98) neither update of a newer DirectX Version 6, 6.1 or 7, 7.0a did work nor a driver update for the Monster to 2.205 or 2.207: crashed with the same symptoms!

My question, is anyone using a socket 7 board together a Millenium II and a Voodoo card able to run latest directX and drivers?

Or did anyone remember problems with 3dfx and Matrox cards when DirectX 6 came up.

Please help me! I am desperate because I ordered a K6-III 400 CPU which would be useless if I can't use the Graphics combo together!



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[Alec]

Monster II worked fine with that 350Mhz and BX system that u talked about WITH Millenium II?
If it was, it´s probably the motherboard...

Not much help, I´m afraid...

Good luck

[This message has been edited by Alec (edited 09 February 2000).]

[Moonstar]

Thanks for replying, :-)
No, BX Board has a Elsa Erazor II (RivaTNT) AGP card in it. But as for a try, I'll install both cards on the 440BX Board, they SHOULD not work there either.

I'll do that tomorrow and I'll tell you.

Moonstar

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[rylan]

I have a G400MAX and a Diamond Monster II 12mb card running on an Epox MVP3G-M with K6-III 450.

Not quite the same setup, but mine is rock stable. I was using the most recent diamond drivers (2.207) which aren't really new. I just switched to the 3dfx V2 drivers that are optimized for DirectX7, and they work great.
You should try those, and it seems that Diamond is no longer posting driver updates for their old products.

[Zaphod]

I did use a millinium and voodoo1 on a P133, for about 2 years and never had any problems, as long as i did keep my drivers and directX up to date, mind you that I always used reference drivers for the voodoo card.
Now the voodoo card is running on a K6-2 266, and again no problems.

That old millinium card was good i only just swapped it for a brandnew G400

Christian

[Moonstar]

Hi everybody!

Thank you very much for your help! You are right. As I couldn't get any further with my video drivers I had a look at all my directx drivers and I came across that those for my soundcard were pretty old. I went to the manufacturers website, but couldn't get any newer. So I just disabled the soundcard in the device manager for testing. I ran Unreal timedemo and X-Wing Alliance (games that I know that have virtually no bugs) and it worked.
I ran 3dfx Glide mode on Unreal timedemo letting it do 100+ cycles without crashes. Then I played some levels: also without crashes. After successfully trying X-Wing Alliance without sound I assume it were my sound drivers. I went to Microsofts WHQL site and I found a certified driver for my ESS clone, turned on sound again and it worked. No crashes!

I am now running DirectX 7.0a with the latest Voodoo2 DX7 retail drivers without serious problems or crashes so far.

The only thing that is still hanging up is 3Dmark 99 and 3Dmark 2000, but you can't play them anyway... :-)

Once again, to all of you: thank you very much for your help and support!

Moonstar :-)

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