Dissolving G400- Doesn"t Anyone Know?????

[caprig]

Re: ACPI

Originally posted by Jorden
ACPI. Do you have ACPI on? Do you want it off? If so, you need to reinstall your OS, and somewhere halfway disable ACPI if possible in the BIOS, and set it to APM.

I would go for a change from ACPI to APM first though (I don't have ACPI, so I don't know the exact sequence, someone else has to tell you that!)
Then reinstall Win98.

That is, if you can change ACPI to APM in your BIOS. If not, then go back to the first original setup you had, all cards having their own IRQ, and I stress again, not the PnP OS install set to yes.

And keep an eye on Juno, ofcourse

Jord.

The dense recipient of your post (namely me ) is a bit lost. I think my last post passed yours on its way to be posted.

I will wait to see if you answer my last post and we can go from there. I do not want to get into the criss cross message thing. My day is already too complicated for that


Just remember to explain ACPI to me, OK?

Thanks,
capri

[caprig]

Jord wrote:

And keep an eye on Juno, ofcourse

Yeah, while they spy on me......


HAHAHAHHAHAHAA

Capri

[bradwark]

Hello,

I had a similar problem. In Internet Explorer 5.5, after a while the screen would go nuts - flashing web pages, black icons, random lines, and smeared graphics. The solution was to switch the motherboard BIOS performance option from "Optimal" to "Standard/Normal."

I have owned the Asus A7V for a year and my G400 for 18 months, so I have pretty much tried every other solution, such as bios and driver updates, different CPU's and power supplies, and various RAM modules (PC100/133, CAS2/3). Nothing worked but the solution above.

Maybe this will work for you.

System:
Asus A7V Rev. 1.01 Bios 1.008e
Duron 800
512 MB PC133 CAS2 RAM
Matrox G400 MAX
Windows 2000 SP2
SB Live Value
USR Sportster 56k
etc.

[caprig]

Originally posted by bradwark
Hello,

I had a similar problem. In Internet Explorer 5.5, after a while the screen would go nuts - flashing web pages, black icons, random lines, and smeared graphics. The solution was to switch the motherboard BIOS performance option from "Optimal" to "Standard/Normal."

I have owned the Asus A7V for a year and my G400 for 18 months, so I have pretty much tried every other solution, such as bios and driver updates, different CPU's and power supplies, and various RAM modules (PC100/133, CAS2/3). Nothing worked but the solution above.

Maybe this will work for you.

System:
Asus A7V Rev. 1.01 Bios 1.008e
Duron 800
512 MB PC133 CAS2 RAM
Matrox G400 MAX
Windows 2000 SP2
SB Live Value
USR Sportster 56k
etc.

WHEE!

I will try this. I was just perusing my BIOS for fun(does it mean a person is in need of help when they do that?) and wondered what the difference would be between optimal and standard.

Funny you should mentioned that.

I will let you know what happens...

thanks
Capri

[Jorden]

More ACPI

It might be that some of our posts have crossed eachother

ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) is an open industry specification co-developed by Compaq, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba.

ACPI establishes industry-standard interfaces for OS-directed configuration and power management on laptops, desktops, and servers.

ACPI evolves the existing collection of power management BIOS code, Advanced Power Management (APM) application programming interfaces (APIs, PNPBIOS APIs, Multiprocessor Specification (MPS) tables and so on into a well-defined power management and configuration interface specification.

The specification enables new power management technology to evolve independently in operating systems and hardware while ensuring that they continue to work together.

More on this link for instance. Do a search on ACPI through Google and be online for a day

And I said before that what ACPI does is put all IRQs on one big heap and for you to try to make heads and tails of it. ACPI is used for Win2k and newer NT versions mostly, where all power IRQs are on one IRQ, to save IRQs left for other hardware.

Okay, motherboard (mobo) specifics I don't know about. I didn't even ask you which kind of BIOS you are using, Award or Phoenix or other.

You like your DOS games, so do I
But I can play them without my SB emulator, because my SB is a 32PnP ISA, so it doesn't use an emulator. Did you ever try to play a DOS game through Windows without the emulator? It's just something to try out
Transport Tycoon works great in WinME, which doesn't have any DOS support

The Free ISP: Check around on the internet, or use Google above to check for a free ISP in your neighborhood. You never know

Your Car is Dead, so you ought to go to a garage to check on the battery first, then check the tank, then check the windscreen wipers
Let them stick a size 10 screwdriver in the contact and try to turn it... now it might be really dead

One option also given to me, with thanks to Gurm, is for you to check if your CMOS battery has enough umpf left over. Try changing your CMOS battery, if you lose BIOS info !!

Jord.

[Dilitante1]

re: ACPI

ACPI also know as.. Automatic Computer Problems Immediately




-Dil

Free Beer on IRQ 11?!.....not here, they ran out from my last visit


btw...this USED to happen on my G200, after I bumped the PSU up to 300watts it hasnt happened

[Nuno]

Hi capri. Bienvenido

Welcome to the wonderful world of A7V + Matrox G400. Been there, done that. That was exactly what I was experiencing.

To fix it, force AGP 1X. You can do it with Matrox tweak utility or simply force AGP1X in the bios.

Do not set "system performance" to normal. You´ll be loosing quite a bunch of overral performance. With AGP1X, you won´t loose nothing. You may want to play around with AGP drive strenght.

I´m not sure if this will fix your problem, but it looks like exactly the one I was having. Funky screen corruption with a hard lock.

[caprig]

Re: More ACPI

Originally posted by Jorden
It might be that some of our posts have crossed eachother

ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)

The specification enables new power management technology to evolve independently in operating systems and hardware while ensuring that they continue to work together.

......

And I said before that what ACPI does is put all IRQs on one big heap and for you to try to make heads and tails of it. ACPI is used for Win2k and newer NT versions mostly, where all power IRQs are on one IRQ, to save IRQs left for other hardware.

Okay, motherboard (mobo) specifics I don't know about. I didn't even ask you which kind of BIOS you are using, Award or Phoenix or other.



You like your DOS games, so do I
But I can play them without my SB emulator, because my SB is a 32PnP ISA, so it doesn't use an emulator. Did you ever try to play a DOS game through Windows without the emulator? It's just something to try out
Transport Tycoon works great in WinME, which doesn't have any DOS support

The Free ISP: Check around on the internet, or use Google above to check for a free ISP in your neighborhood. You never know

Your Car is Dead, so you ought to go to a garage to check on the battery first, then check the tank, then check the windscreen wipers
Let them stick a size 10 screwdriver in the contact and try to turn it... now it might be really dead

One option also given to me, with thanks to Gurm, is for you to check if your CMOS battery has enough umpf left over. Try changing your CMOS battery, if you lose BIOS info !!

Jord.

ACPI:
I would prefer not to run any power management. I have been lazy and really did not turn it all off. Is there a place in both Win98SE and the BIOS to disable, or will disabling the ACPI do that all?

I could do a search on google ( I always seem to write goggle instead and then wonder why it does not work) for that someday when I have nothing else to do......AHHAHAHAHA

I think I am running Award BIOS. Being as dense as I am today, I can not remember....HAHHAHA

SB EMULATOR
Not really sure how this works anyway. I have a 2 year old, so my computer business and troubleshooting time (as well as just plain playing with it) are at an all time low. I have not done much computer work since she was born.

I never had the time to know how this worked. I assumed the thing was necessary to run games in Win98SE, but if it isn't, then how do you do it? Is it automatic, or something you ahve to set up?

Since I do not know hot it works, I can not know how to use DOS games without it....

ASIDE QUESTION FOR FUN:
Ever play SPACE BATS or SKY ROADS?

FREE ISP:
Thank God Google is free I will be giving it a workout........

NOW FOR THE CAR:

What kind of battery do you recommend? Should I try offering it free beer?

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Works for IRQ's maybe it will work for cars.

BIOS INFO

Have not lost any BIOS info so I doubt it would be the CMOS battery. I will keep that in mind though.

JUNO
It is a pain and takes a lot of resources, but nothing like CS/AOL used to do. That nightmare took over the entire computer, but that is another story for another day......

Thanks for your help.

NOW ON TO VCR's
One of my errands was going to be to return the box that overrides the copy protection on videos. Know anything about that? HAHAHAHAHAHA

Just so you don't worry, we have a TV/VCR combo and the VCR died. To save money (ha ha) we bought a new VCR. BUT because of the dead VCR in the TV, it thinks that we are always trying to record.

We need the overrider just to watch commercial videos.

So much for saving money.

Thanks so much for all of the time and breaking down everything so well. It feels good to be messing with computers on a deep level again.

Ooops- did I say that?

Capri

[caprig]

Re: re: ACPI

Originally posted by Dilitante1
ACPI also know as.. Automatic Computer Problems Immediately




-Dil

Free Beer on IRQ 11?!.....not here, they ran out from my last visit


btw...this USED to happen on my G200, after I bumped the PSU up to 300watts it hasnt happened

Hmmm.

I am already at 350watts, and not running a whole lot.

It is so interesting to see the things that set this silly video card off.

Capri

[caprig]

Originally posted by Nuno
Hi capri. Bienvenido

Welcome to the wonderful world of A7V + Matrox G400. Been there, done that. That was exactly what I was experiencing.

To fix it, force AGP 1X. You can do it with Matrox tweak utility or simply force AGP1X in the bios.

Do not set "system performance" to normal. You´ll be loosing quite a bunch of overral performance. With AGP1X, you won´t loose nothing. You may want to play around with AGP drive strenght.

I´m not sure if this will fix your problem, but it looks like exactly the one I was having. Funky screen corruption with a hard lock.

Yes, sounds like the same problem. Were your IRQ's all piling up on 11 or 9 too?

I forget how to check for the AGP. I thought I changed it to 1X, but who knows, I could have put it back it was a while ago now.

How do I do it with BIOS?

What do you mean by AGP drive strength? I am a bit slow mentally today.

Thanks!
Capri

[caprig]

BTW

Where do you guys get all of the cool little pictures you have by your screen names?

Capri

[Jorden]

re: BTW

Now just sit back and hit this link to the FAQs and if you read through you may know

[Nuno]

When booting, go to motherboard bios (press del)
Go to advanced -> chip configuration

You´ve got there those options. Set AGP to 1x (it should be at 4x or 2x by default). Set AGP Drive strength to manual, and then you may alter the values. But BE CAREFULL. you can seriously mess the system changing AGP drive strenght settings.

By far your best bet is to force AGP 1x with Matroxx tweak utility. Here: http://www.murc.ws/Utils/mtstu418.zip

Enjoy

[Buback]

I've had this problem too, lots of screen corupion and stuff. hapened to me mostly in 3d games.

I was overclocking, and so putting it back to normal helped, but did not stop it.

next i tried irq stuff, worked pretty good for a while.

i tried turning on apci but don't even bother, it only makes more problems.

my current soulution is to unplug one of my extra exhaust fans. i havn't had any problems for 6-8 months. if you have any extra fans you added then try unpluging it. i think it might dirty the power and **** everything up. you might have problems with heat, but you can underclock i guess, or leave your case open, at least to try it.

ps. i also have a single head g400. maybe this is the cause of our problems?

kevin

[Jorden]

Some more reading for you caprig. It sounds a bit like the same problem this guy had. Yet Buback has a point as well More reading

Jord.