Help?! Parhelia troubles :(

[Ant]

The Parhelia is the only card, system has 1Gig of PC2100. I'll grab those SIS drivers.

[Protege]

That's your problem to much ram! DOh! Just kidding. Strange these locks your getting what if you turn off all the special features of parhelia like set it to single screen does reef still lock? It may be a 3 head issue. try turning off AA and seeing see if you can narrow down where the bug is coming from. Maybe a driver issue did you try the new one that they have out recently? I think you need a certified driver. I know their not out yet... soon... I hope!

[Jediphx]

Ant did you see my response about the AMD agp miniport? Are you running AMD or Intel?

[isochar]

He has an SIS chipset.

[isochar]

Just got off the phone with Shop matrox... They will reimburse the value of the card and the shipping, as well as pay for the card to be shipped back to them. However, they say that I will need to wait until the next shipment arrives SOMETIME NEXT WEEK before they can ship a replacement.

[Ant]

I'm running an AMD XP2000+. I'll have a go installing the drivers when I get home from work, I'm sure its just a driver/BIOS tweak that's needed.

I've been running the reef demo in single screen mode so no triplehead yet to complicate matters. I've noticed if I have the mobo set to AGP 4X the demo locks as soon as the credits start to disappear and the reef loads up. If I set it to AGP 1X I get about 10 seconds of fishy goodness before it locks.

Originally posted by Jediphx
Ant did you see my response about the AMD agp miniport? Are you running AMD or Intel?

[Ant]

Well I installed the drivers, did everything I can think of and the reef demo still locks the system up hard. I guess it just ain't meant to be

[The PIT]

Motherboard bios ???? Agp size?? hardware acceralation??
Disabling fast writes, agp writes etc, Bios defaults disabling acpi.
Just slap on win2k and that will probably fix it.

[az]

AGP drive strength? Yet another card?

Best of Luck! Hope this wasn't the special "surprise" R0M told us about?

AZ

[thop]

hehe

[Ant]

I guess by the end of all this I will have found every possible problem to get around with the Parhelia

[Protege]

well if all else fails switch it again.....Don't know if that will help? Did you try it on another system and try the good old fishies on the other system?

[frankymail]

Ant, you're still working at you venerabe age??? Man, by the time I get 200 years old like you( ), i'll be long retired and stinking rich (well, maybe not the second part )...

Anyway, I sure you've got some old 440BX or i815 motherboard laying around with some ram and an old cpu; I suggest that you check if you card works fine with the old setup...

If the card is fine, here's what I'd do:

1) reset BIOS defaults (no O/Cing at first) and no RAM tweaking (don't forget to set AGP as your primary display adapter in the BIOS and disable on-board sound)
2) boot directly form the Windows CD and install it from scratch (no "previous windows installation repairs"...)
3) go watch some TV as you're in for more than an hour...
4) go to the stripper club as you probably need to "work" some of that frustration off (besides, i'm sure they offer a rebate for the elderly )
5) When Windows is installed, Windows Update everything system/bug/drivers related.
6) reboot(s) (Well, you kinda have now choice, do you?)
7) Install the SIS AGP drivers
8) Reboot (yeah, I know you're tired of hearing your computer say "beep", but just remember when the internal speaker used to rumble when it was checking the ram integrity at boot.. see, told ya it wasn't soo bad )
9) Then Install Parhelia's drivers and PowerDesk HF.
10) Now rejoy my friend, as your Parhelia breaze through the reef demo... or flame me because that f*ing ?iece of ?hit still isn't working and you've lost 2 hours of your precious time thanks to me (at a certain age you start to appreciate the value of time a little more )

Besides, if your only concern is the reef demo, you can always buy three fish tanks and have some "Kinda-Surround-Semi-Snorkeling"(tm) action

[Ant]

I've <a href="http://www.applefritter.com/hacks/macquarium/showoff/index.html">found the solution!</a> Took the tubes out of my monitors, put perspex tank in, filled up with water and added fish

[Protege]

where did you get the shark? COOL!!!