G400 and XP locks/reboots up in Both D3d and OGL

[AlphaMeridian]

Hello. I've been having some trouble with my G400 and Windows Xp for some time now. About 3 months ago, I was running a Dual Processor Celeron on a BP6, when the computer started to crash in Quake and Unreal Tournament. At that time, XP blamed (or the equivalent) the crashes/infinate loops on the g400.dll driver. The system configuration at that time was:

Abit BP6 (dual Celeron 433 PPGA)
Matrox G400
SB live plat
Intel 10/100 NIC
IBM 34GXP HD

Well, I had also thought that the crashes could be due to the multiprocessor system, so i didn't push the issue and gave up 3d apps. About a month later, i won at one of the AMD giveaways, and i'm now running

MSI KT266 Pro (Via 266) not 266A, i don't think
AMD Athlon 1800+ (1.53Ghz)
Matrox G400
SB live plat
Intel 10/100 NIC
IBM 60GXP HD

And I'm still getting the same kind of lockups in Ogl/d3d games. As of right now, I'm using the MS Driver, because that's the one which doesn't randomly reboot my computer (which, while i'm coding will almost instantly get me angry). However, i had used the latest beta, and it exhibited the same symptoms (I don't think MS has an OGL in their driver)

What will happen, when i'm playing is that the video will stop, and the sound will start looping while the computer is completely locked up. Have to hard reboot to get it back.

Here is my IRQ configuration:

ISA 0- System Timer
ISA 1- Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
ISA 3- Communications Port (COM2)
ISA 4- Communications Port (COM1)
ISA 6- Standard floppy disk controller
ISA 8- System CMOS/real time clock
ISA 9- Microsfot ACPI Compliant System
ISA 12- Microsoft PS/2 Port Mouse
ISA 13- Numeric Data Processor
ISA 14- Primary IDE Channel
ISA 15- Secondary IDE Channel
PCI 5- INtel(R) InBusiness(TM) 10/100 Network Adapter
PCI 5- VIA Rev 5 or later USB Univeral Host Controller
PCI 5- VIA VIA Rev 5 or later USB Univeral Host
PCI 5- VIA Rev 5 or later USB Univeral Host Controller
PCI 10- Creative SB Live (WDM)
PCI 11- Matrox Millennium G400

Any help will be apprciated, and i will do my best to fill requests for additional information.

Thank you,

AlphaMeridian

[RichL]

SB live plat

I believe that may be your problem. My system used to lock up occasionally in the same manner running Half-Life under Win2k.

Try getting the latest SB Live drivers and/or Via motherboard patch.

[AlphaMeridian]

Thanks, i'll try updating the Sound Card drivers when i get home. Before i left for class, I was downloading the new Matrox 5.82's so i'll try those out too.

I'll try to keep this thread updated..as posting at other sites has not gotten my ANY replies, (well, except for the main matrox site)...

Any more assistance would be appreciated.

Sincerely,

AlphaMeridian

[Maggi]

Welcome to the MURC, AlphaMeridian ...

you should use Matrox' TweakUtil for forcing your card to run in AGP1x only, because some VIA chipset based MoBos are known to produce too much busnoise to properly run in AGP2x/4x DiME mode.

[DGhost77]

Your should lower your hardware acceleration from your sound card. Go to your control panel in your sound and multimedia properties and check the settings of your hardware acceleration. By default it's setup to standard aceleration. Lower it a notch to put at basic acceleration. It should help

I've started checking what would be the best sound card to use with a Matrox card. Creative labs alwas had problems with Matrox and when you ask them how could solve this problem they just blame it on matrox.

Anybody who doesn't have the problem of sound looping and computer freezing in OpenGL and who doesn't use a creative lab sound card? Wich sound card are you using?