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Sigh... Another one. I can't believe how many times I have had to help people with this motherboard. If you do a forum search you will find several dozen threads that talk specifically about the Asus P5A. (I have one myself in my backup system so I know of which I speak)
Having said that, I will offer a quick run down anyway.
http://www.ali.com.tw
Download the v3.56 IDE drivers and the v1.73 AGP drivers.
ftp://ftp.acerlabs.com/pub/agp173e.zip
ftp://ftp.acerlabs.com/pub/v356.exe
I would recommend trying the PD5.52 drivers from Matrox in combination with this. (This assumes that you are running Win95/98, if you are running 2000 then you still need to install the ALi drivers but you'll need to just start trying random drivers from Matrox to find the ones that work the best.)
If that doesn't fix the problem then you may actually have a heat problem. Try the drivers first and see if that fixes the problem. You may also have some settings wrong in the your Bios. Which reminds me of another point, make sure you have the latest bios for the P5A.
ftp://www.asus.com/pub/asus/mb/sock7/ali/p5a/al5i107a.zip
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Crashing when games load
I started having a problem a few months ago with games crashing while they are loading. It would randomly stop with a Blue Screen of Death, and occasionally give me an error "DDHELP has caused an error in G400DD32.DLL". This was happening when No One Lives Forever was loading, and now that I've finished, I've gone back to Deus Ex, and it's happening there too. (it never was up to this point)
System:
K6-2 333
ASUS P5A
G400 Max (not overclocked)
Driver version: 6.21.003
DirectX version 8.0 (died in 7.0 too, tried upgrading with no avail)
The only thing I can think of that's changed is I put in a fan beside the video card to help cool it down, since it was preventing me from putting the case on the system.
Has anyone else seen this error and what might be causing it?
Thanks...
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