Galvin's Problems

[Gurm]

Folks,

I think we need to make a concerted effort to help out poor Galvin.

At first I thought he was just a pain in the ass. But I've come to the conclusion that he is just very confused.

There is obviously something quite wrong with his system. It hangs on him and he gets icky texture compression.

So let's try to help him out, ok?

Galvin - let's start at the beginning.

Please answer the following:

1. What OS are you running?
2. What is your hardware?
3. What driver revisions?
4. IRQ's?

Let's take it from there.

- Gurm

P.S. No, this is NOT just a "flame Galvin" post. But in the past couple hours he has gone from massive texture corruption in Quake to lockups of the machine. In addition, he may or may not be using some bastardized drivers, etc. etc.

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[spazm_1999]

Gurm, your right there's something wrong I don't have all the prob he has with his PC... had some prob with vertex lightning which is a bug in the driver but I couldn't care less.

I have those some infos since I talked a lot with him.

1- Win2k
2- 384megs ram, CUSL2, G400 32mb
3- If this hasn't changed it uses the lastest like me.
4- don't know....

Spazm

[Galvin]

I am now Dr. Gurm's patient, I was sent to "matrox videocard gamers for the impaired" to get that extra help


Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 1 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name MILLENNIUM
System Manufacturer System Manufacturer
System Model System Name
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel ~737 Mhz
BIOS Version Award Medallion BIOS v6.0
Windows Directory C:\WINNT
System Directory C:\WINNT\System32
Boot Device \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Locale United States
User Name MILLENNIUM\Administrator
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 392,668 KB
Available Physical Memory 235,240 KB
Total Virtual Memory 1,139,860 KB
Available Virtual Memory 876,248 KB
Page File Space 747,192 KB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
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IRQ Number Device
9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
9 Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English
9 Creative SB Live! (WDM)
9 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI NIC (3C905-TX)
9 Intel(R) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442
9 Intel(R) 82801BA/BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2444
8 System CMOS/real time clock
13 Numeric data processor
6 Standard floppy disk controller
4 Communications Port (COM1)
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
10 Intel(R) 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller - 2443
14 Ultra ATA Channel
15 Ultra ATA Channel
==============================================
Intel 733 CPU, CUSL2 384MB 133mhz Sdram
SBlive original using liveware 3.


[This message has been edited by Galvin (edited 11 December 2000).]

[spazm_1999]

Galvin matrox drivers infos



Spazm

[ALBPM]

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[ALBPM]

I know WN2K is supposed to deal with this but it looks like you may need to move some PCI cards around.

For starters list what you have in each PCI slot. PCI 1 under the AGP slot should be empty so the G400 doesn't share with another Buss Mastered card.

Anyone else out there with a CUSL2 mobo want to help out here?????

It may be way too early in the morning for me to be thinking...but...doesn't the CUSL2 use the 815E chipset which is limited to a 64MB AGP aperature.... Could this in combination with WN2K be the cause for some of the Texture problems in gaming????

Paul

[This message has been edited by ALBPM (edited 11 December 2000).]

[Gurm]

Hrm, that's possible (the 64-meg aperture).

Have you made sure you have the latest BIOS for the CUSL2?

And need we ask... is your chip a true 733? Or are you overclocking...?

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[dZeus]

I don't think that setting the AGP size to anything higher than 49MB will make any difference in Win2k, due to Win2k messed up GART implementation (max. addressable non-local texture mem 15.8MB for G400)

I even wrote something about this on my page: http://dzeus.student.utwente.nl/win2k

correct me if I got something wrong on that page.

[spazm_1999]

I've got a P3b-f mobo which isn't limited at 64mb of AGP apparture and I have corruption in quake 3, but not as much as he has. I don't think that it's an apparture size problem. Anyway I'll have a more detailed idea tomorrow I'll change my mobo to a CUSL2.

Spazm

[Gurm]

Possible problems are heat, RAM, AGP, conflicts... a million things. But there's NOTHING wrong with the G400 drivers in this particular scenario, which is why we need to get to the bottom of this. Galvin? We need more info as requested.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Galvin]

Originally posted by dZeus:
I don't think that setting the AGP size to anything higher than 49MB will make any difference in Win2k, due to Win2k messed up GART implementation (max. addressable non-local texture mem 15.8MB for G400)

I even wrote something about this on my page: http://dzeus.student.utwente.nl/win2k

correct me if I got something wrong on that page.

That's suprising, think microsoft would of gotten it right since they been using AGP in win98/SE/ME.

[Galvin]

Originally posted by ALBPM:
I know WN2K is supposed to deal with this but it looks like you may need to move some PCI cards around.

For starters list what you have in each PCI slot. PCI 1 under the AGP slot should be empty so the G400 doesn't share with another Buss Mastered card.

Anyone else out there with a CUSL2 mobo want to help out here?????

It may be way too early in the morning for me to be thinking...but...doesn't the CUSL2 use the 815E chipset which is limited to a 64MB AGP aperature.... Could this in combination with WN2K be the cause for some of the Texture problems in gaming????

Paul

[This message has been edited by ALBPM (edited 11 December 2000).]

AGP G400
PCI 2 SBlive
PCI 4 Etherlink.

PCI 2 is not shared.
PCI 4 is shared with CNR LAN which is not used.
AGP slot is shared with Onboard VGA which is not in use.
PCI 2 and 4 don't share with eachother
removing possible conflicts.

The bios is 1003. PnP OS is turned off
in the bos, AGP apeture is set to 64mb the highest you can set on the 815 chipset.

[Galvin]

Originally posted by Gurm:
Hrm, that's possible (the 64-meg aperture).

Have you made sure you have the latest BIOS for the CUSL2?

And need we ask... is your chip a true 733? Or are you overclocking...?

- Gurm

No overclocking done it's 133:133:33
Clock multiplier is 5.5

[Gurm]

Turn PnP OS back on. Win2k is Plug and Play, running your motherboard in this mode will cause it to second-guess the OS and fuXX0r your resource allocation.

I'm not saying that'll fix the problem, but it'll keep you busy through a half-dozen reboots while all your hardware redetects. Heh.

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[Galvin]

Actually I turned it off to solve problems.
Turning it on will only cause me more problems.