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leadtek geforce 2 pro

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August 29, 2001 9:42:58 PM

I have a geforce 2 pro 32mb, it runs fine when I'm running 2d apps and games, but when I run anything in 3d it locks up my computer randomly. I'm using the Nvidia 6.50 drivers not the ones that came with the cd. I've tried other versions of the nvidia drivers and this one seems to be the most stable and has the fewest lockups (but still quite a few). Does anyone else have these problems with this video card?

The following are the specs of my system:athlon 1.2 ghz
dfi ak 76-sn rev b
256mb ddr sdram
40gb ibm 60gxp
sound blaster live x-gamer 5.1
3com 3905c
running win2k sp2

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August 30, 2001 4:20:20 AM

exactly the same card here.

ive had heaps of problems, but ALL apart from one are due to directx8 & Via driver problems.
did a fewsh install, no via drivers, no directx 8 (directx 7.0a used) and no problems so far
the only problem i THOUGHT i had was it locking up in serious sam, but i believe that has been fixed with a serious sam patch.
(must do more "testing" *grin*)

interesting that your also using win2k sp2. hmmms

could you possibly answer the following questions? try to pin down the possible causes.

1. which version of the geforce2pro do u have? the earlier version had a standard heatsink/fan combo, while the newer one has this big black heatsink over the GPU with the fan offset to one side.

2. u said it only locks up in 3d games. does it occur equally in all your 3d games?

3. does it also happen in BOTH direct3d and opengl games? (good test here is unrealtournament which can do both)

4. have you installed the winfox control pannel? if so there should be graphics card temp monitors on board. ideally your GPU should not exceed 75 C.

5. also try the 12.41 detonators... they went pretty good for me.

6. what actually happens when it crashes? complete lockup? crash back to the desktop? graphics corruption?

7. what version of directx are u using?

at this stage it could be lots of things, from some windows/driver/directx/detonator conflict to something more serious like your grahics processor overheating.
if you want, you could try underclocking your graphics card and leaving the side of the case open. this will hopefully eliminate overheating as the cause.

hope this helps,
master Poo + Hamster

I'll respect your comments & opinions, even if i disagree with them, Provided you display maturity.
Anonymous
a b U Graphics card
August 30, 2001 8:58:01 PM

I was previously running win98 and it was crashing left and right so I switched over to win2k but it still crashed. I don't have the winfox util installed yet but I did when I was in win98 and the gpu temps never got close to 70c the highest I saw was about 62-64c and that was on a hot day.

At first I thought it was a heat problem so I bought an exaust fan in the back and a slot fan to take the hot air away from the video card and the cpu. That lowered the temperatures a few degrees but it still crashed just about the same.

When it crashes it's not the type of crash that gives you a blue screen or brings you back to windows it locks up the entire system there is no responce from the keyboard and I need to shut the power off. It did this both in win 98 and 2k.

Yesterday I switched from the 6.50 drivers to the 14.61 drivers to see if there were any improvements, there are fewer lockups but still some. They seem to come at random and in both opengl and d3d (games like halflife and diablo2).

I went and disabled fastwrites in my bios, but then I ran nvmax and saw that fastwrites was enabled in software (I think it's software) and I disabled that along with SBA (sideband something).

After that my bro tells me it only crashed once as he was up all night playing counter-strike and unrealtournament. But that crash was a bit different compared to the others as it didn't lockup the system it gave a blue screen. I'm taking a wild guess that the software part of the fastwrites was causing the problems.

Oh yes and I have directx 8 installed.
Sorry for the long post!
August 30, 2001 11:35:20 PM

oooh no no no.
dont be sorry for a long post.
long posts are good. lots of helpful stuff.
unlike the usual "my computer crashes ever half hour. im using win98. whats wrong" kina posts with no extra info.

well we can safely rule out your card overheating as you tried extra cooling measures and that mine gets up to 65-67 after extended gaming too.

interesting that it does it both in win98 & 2k.
that makes me suspect either
A. a common driver used in both (i.e. directx8)
B. something bios related
C. hardware/psu problem.

i hope we can rule out C. as you have seen a decrease in crashes by doing things.

i suggest you go into your bios and turn off thing like the agp 4x, UWSC (put it to UC), and anything elated to the video card or agp.

just in case you COULD try reseating your video card, just to make sure.

and i strongly reccomend you use directx7.

apart from that i can really thinkof much more.

I'll respect your comments & opinions, even if i disagree with them, Provided you display maturity.
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