First, the easy but extremely annoying one. I just reset two of my systems, clean installs, and on both of them, I can't get into the monitor power management settings. Basically, I'm stuck with a 15 minute shutdown, and can't alter it, which is highly annoying. I've gone into the BIOS, on both motherboards, and disabled all power management, to no effect. I'm flummoxed, because I reformat/reinstall my system about every three months, and have never encountered this before. When I go into power mgmt., there just isn't a pull down for the monitor at all, and when I go into my adapter advanced settings, the box where it says energy start compliant is checked and greyed, so I can't affect a change there either.
Any ideas would be great!
Second question: I just put together a new system:
1.4 T-Bird
MSI K7T266 Pro2, high performance defaults, all memory timings minimized, running an FSB at 133.
512 Crucial P2100
WD 7200rpm 20g in UDMA mode 4 (ata/66)
Asus GeForce 2 GTS and a Xtasy GeForce2 GTS-V (btw, is this expected to be worse than a regular GTS chipset?)
DirectX 8.0a
Win98b
I'm getting acceptable memory benchmarks from SiSoft Sandra2001, about 780/980
But with 3DMark2001, I'm getting a 3222 on the GTS, and a 2752 on the GTS-V
The *average* for this chipset on a 1.4 athlon is about 3800, and my box should be putting out at least that, if not a good deal higher than 'average'.
Any ideas why I'm getting such poor scores?
Again, I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
Any ideas would be great!
Second question: I just put together a new system:
1.4 T-Bird
MSI K7T266 Pro2, high performance defaults, all memory timings minimized, running an FSB at 133.
512 Crucial P2100
WD 7200rpm 20g in UDMA mode 4 (ata/66)
Asus GeForce 2 GTS and a Xtasy GeForce2 GTS-V (btw, is this expected to be worse than a regular GTS chipset?)
DirectX 8.0a
Win98b
I'm getting acceptable memory benchmarks from SiSoft Sandra2001, about 780/980
But with 3DMark2001, I'm getting a 3222 on the GTS, and a 2752 on the GTS-V
The *average* for this chipset on a 1.4 athlon is about 3800, and my box should be putting out at least that, if not a good deal higher than 'average'.
Any ideas why I'm getting such poor scores?
Again, I'd be grateful for any suggestions.