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Time to solve this problem.
Ok gang, I've had these troubles for a while now, and it's really beginning to bug me now, and I could use some assistance trying to fix it. I think most of the regular [MU]'s have heard me bitching at some point in time, and have seen me suddenly drop from games fairly regularly.
So, here's the problem. A little over a month ago I bought a 32mb SH G400. Now when it works, it works great. Trouble is, it stops working fairly regularly.
Symptoms are as follows:
In Windows 2000 SP1 using either 5.10 PD or 5.11 PD, while playing Unreal Tournament, everything works fine for about a half hour, and then my computer hard locks. No C-A-D, no Alt-Tab, no Windows hot key, although for about the first 5-10 seconds, num-lock does still work(which means that it doesn't completely lock right away).
While playing Diablo II in D3D can play for several hours, but eventually I get the same thing, hard lock.
All OGL games(ie, Heretic II, Half-Life, Quake) lock within 5 minutes of starting.
Unreal in D3D locks within 5 minutes.
Now, in theory, since I install 2000 w/ACPI support IRQ's shouldn't be a problem. Nevertheless, just for the info, my G400 is sharing with my SBLive, my PCI Modem, and IRQ Steering on IRQ 7.
My hardware specs are in the sig. The memory is on 2 sticks of 128MB generic 3-2-2 PC133 SDRAM. I've tried installing the VIA driver pack, and it just makes things worse. It currently is not installed(except for the USB filter).
AGP is currently at 2x(I think), aperature is at 128. I tried 256 and it causes games to lock my 'puter in less than a minute. There is no Video cacheing of any sort turned on in the BIOS. I have a 300W AOpen PSU.
Furthermore, just as a reference I also have 98 installed on my system. I have the Via 4.23 driver pack on that and PD 6.0whateveritis. OGL games work basically fine under 98, although they still do lock eventually, but it takes several hours. UT gets that awful garbled screen lines everywhere mess after about 5 minutes every single time. 98 is also detecting the G400 at AGP2x I believe.
I used to have a G200 in this system, and I never had ANY problems. Nothing was blazing fast or anything mind you, but at least it was all stable.
Ok, that was a rather long and rambling post, but I think I got most of the important details all in there.
Thanks for any sage wisdom you guys can impart.
Ian
So, here's the problem. A little over a month ago I bought a 32mb SH G400. Now when it works, it works great. Trouble is, it stops working fairly regularly.
Symptoms are as follows:
In Windows 2000 SP1 using either 5.10 PD or 5.11 PD, while playing Unreal Tournament, everything works fine for about a half hour, and then my computer hard locks. No C-A-D, no Alt-Tab, no Windows hot key, although for about the first 5-10 seconds, num-lock does still work(which means that it doesn't completely lock right away).
While playing Diablo II in D3D can play for several hours, but eventually I get the same thing, hard lock.
All OGL games(ie, Heretic II, Half-Life, Quake) lock within 5 minutes of starting.
Unreal in D3D locks within 5 minutes.
Now, in theory, since I install 2000 w/ACPI support IRQ's shouldn't be a problem. Nevertheless, just for the info, my G400 is sharing with my SBLive, my PCI Modem, and IRQ Steering on IRQ 7.
My hardware specs are in the sig. The memory is on 2 sticks of 128MB generic 3-2-2 PC133 SDRAM. I've tried installing the VIA driver pack, and it just makes things worse. It currently is not installed(except for the USB filter).
AGP is currently at 2x(I think), aperature is at 128. I tried 256 and it causes games to lock my 'puter in less than a minute. There is no Video cacheing of any sort turned on in the BIOS. I have a 300W AOpen PSU.
Furthermore, just as a reference I also have 98 installed on my system. I have the Via 4.23 driver pack on that and PD 6.0whateveritis. OGL games work basically fine under 98, although they still do lock eventually, but it takes several hours. UT gets that awful garbled screen lines everywhere mess after about 5 minutes every single time. 98 is also detecting the G400 at AGP2x I believe.
I used to have a G200 in this system, and I never had ANY problems. Nothing was blazing fast or anything mind you, but at least it was all stable.
Ok, that was a rather long and rambling post, but I think I got most of the important details all in there.
Thanks for any sage wisdom you guys can impart.
Ian
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