Various glitches.

what kind of sound card are you using?

i have the hercules game theatre xp and mine has the sound errors that you were talking about. this is a known error for them and apparently they dont plan to do jack about it. except they blame it on the newest highpoint raid drivers, which i do happen to have.

at any rate, maybe you need the latest drivers for your sound card.

as for the graphics problems, im not sure, just making a suggestion. do you have agp fastwrite enabled? if so try disabling it and see if that helps any.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by garett on 01/03/02 11:55 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

800*600@low details is good resolution for such a crappy GPU.
If you want antialiasing get Voodoo 5.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by mordy on 01/04/02 03:23 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

>Point Of View Geforce 2Mx200

There is your problem. This has to be by far the slowest gpu on the market. Its as slow as a 3 year old TNT2. Who gave you the advise the buy that card ?? Unless gaming is not your thing, but apparently it is. You'd would have gotten MUCH better results with a Duron 1.1 and GF2 GTS for less money.

= The views stated herein are my personal views, and not necessarily the views of my wife. =

with anti alilasing on, all bets are off man.

Turn off anti and you should run it fine.


A good videocard is WAY more important than a fast cpu for games.

"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
No Overclock+stock hsf=GOOD!

It does work as intended, however the [-peep-] videocard cant handle the stress, therefore your framerates suffer to unbearable levels.


Hangs can be caughed by plenty of things, the sound skipping may be an old soundcard. Are you using the same soundcard as you were in your old system.

"The Cash Left In My Pocket,The BEST Benchmark"
No Overclock+stock hsf=GOOD!

Sound from motherboard.

Enjoy.

Forgot, the RAM brand is Namya, Mimya or something, I don´t remember.
Would RAM really have anything to to with intro sequences stopping or bad sound?
I mean, if I can run other apps without problems I should be able to run games as well?.




Enjoy.

I have never run into onboard sound that doesn't occasionally skip and do the double sound thing. Sometimes i kinda like it though:

"Gooooggoooggoooooogggoooogogoooooo GOOOOOODDDD GOD Like, Unstoppable"

I've had that happen on a crappy sound card as well though.

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Your sound/lockup problems sound very similar to the problems I used to have on an old system that I eventually fixed with an updated BIOS flash.

In my case it was a Tyan Tiger 100 dual board with a sound blaster live.

The problem was so frustrating to me since I never knew what was wrong until it just magically was cured with the BIOS flash.

My advice to you: since the system is new and the problem might very well be hardware related, you should do a bit more testing. Specifically right now I would want to know if it might be M/B, RAM, or CPU related. If so try this: physically remove everything but the bare necessities (especialy soundcard and LAN), and run loop mode in 3DMark2K1 for like a day or 2. If with all the crap gone the thing is still locking up, I would certainly be considering replacing bad parts.

Not that I'm hoping you find bad parts, but just that it would be easier to return them under warranty if you do it sooner than later. This 3DMark2K1 test should effectively weed out the weak links.

Ha!Haa!

Problems solved!, everything is working fine.

I had to uninstall all the sounddrivers to make it work.
After I did that I browsed the driversCD and installed only one sounddriver.
I find it odd, isn´t it supposed to work with the drivers that are installed when I run the setup program on the cd?
It didn´t for me...
Now the computer runs fine except for occasionally lockups (happened twice in 4 days), but I can take that.

Well, thanks anyway for the tips!


Enjoy.