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Help! My GF2 Ti is causing system problems

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December 28, 2001 2:48:05 AM

I have a GeForce2 Ti with 64 Meg of DDR.
I have followed the instructions to the T. I even formatted my hard drive and started over but i cannot get it to work properly. I had it working once with a game but after a reboot it screwed up again.

I updated all my device drivers after the format (including my monitor drivers.
Now when i reboot it only shows 16 colors and 640 by 480 resolution. Calling the tech support i was told by an anutomated robot that i had to update my monitor drivers which i did. This seemed to work until i rebooted when i was told that windows had a registry error and had to reboot. On rebooting i was prompted that my resolution was incorrect and it was reset to the 16 color 640 by 480 setting.

Can anyone tell me what else i have to do to get this card working? I cant get through to tch supoprt as they are engaged all day!

Please help me obi wan, your my only hope!

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December 28, 2001 3:44:25 AM

Give us your system info: processor, amount of RAM, motherboard, chipset, operating system, Driver versions for mobo, chipset and video card. Also your Bios settings: AGP Aperture size (should be half of system Ram up to 256 Mb), AGP 1x or 2x or 4x (should be 4x), make sure you've disabled onboard video if that is what you were previously using. Anyways give us more info and we'll sort it out. I use the same video card (mine's a Visiontek) without any problems. Currently using NVidia's ref drivers ver 21.85.
later
December 28, 2001 6:45:42 PM

AMDK6 400, 1022meg, ALi 1541 motherboard, Windows 98. the motherboard is running the Ali 1.82 AGP driver. There is no on board video. I am not sure how to change my agp settings in bios, i looked and couldnt find the setting. Hope this helps you help me. Just let me know if you need more info!

One thing I have noticed is that the display settings do not show any of the nvidia tabs that should be there. I continue to try the tech support folks to no avail.

Jason!
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December 28, 2001 7:31:39 PM

Do this first:
Open the System.ini (in your Windows folder)file in a text editor, such as Notepad.
Go to the [VCache] section.
Add these lines, or change the settings to this, directly under [VCache]:

MinFileCache=4096
MaxFileCache=262144

Save the changes and reboot.

Then go directly to the BIOS, and try to open the AGP aperture to 256, if the BIOS supports an aperture that large. That's pretty standard with 512MB of RAM or more. 1/2 the size of the physically-installed memory (but not more than 256).
The VCache is basically a set of memory addresses for the disk caching virtual device driver.

In Win9x, when you install 512MB of RAM or more, a bug in the OS correspondingly raises the size of the VCache, and this can become as large as 800MB when controlled by Windows. But the VCache settings must always be smaller than the size of the physically installed RAM, or it can cause blue screens and out-of-memory errors.

Also, the AGP port uses a set of memory addresses that are very close to the VCache. This is a cache for texturing, and so, for example, if you have a video card with 32MB of RAM, another 32MB is allocated for AGP texturing. If these addresses overlap, the again, you get blue screens.
December 28, 2001 7:40:24 PM

Now that you've set up the vcache got to NVIDIA's website and Download the latest drivers version 23.11 Install them either by extracting them to a folder you created on your desktop or if they're self installing double click them. If they are not self-installing then right click the MY Computer Icon and select properties. Now select the device manager tab. Scroll down to Display adapter and click the +. Click on the graphics card identifier (Probably Standard PCI adapter) and then click the properties tab at the bottom. Now select the driver tab and then the update driver tab. Then go through the installation specifying the location of the driver (that folder you created on the desktop which you extracted the drivers to). That should do it. By the way the credit for the VCACHE settings should go to a user named Toejam who pointed me in the right direction. Later
December 28, 2001 10:37:44 PM

Thanks. So far it is working fine!
You are the best!
I will holler if my pc blows up :) 

Jason
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December 28, 2001 11:04:10 PM

can you help
i have geforce2 pro and my tvout is not working at all
what can i do??
December 28, 2001 11:43:24 PM

What drivers are you using? And how are you hooking your card up to the TV? I use driver version 21.85 which doesn't allow you to clone (use the monitor and TV at the same time) and I hook up directly to the television with an S-Video cable.
December 29, 2001 2:42:45 AM

Should you make these changes with 512MB RAM or only if above 512? Also I don't get memory errors but I have been trying to figure out why I can't use any drivers past 12.90 without system freeze in first few min. 12.90 work great but I get more performance out of the newer drivers when they actually work.

Athlon 1.33
512MB PC2100 Crucial
MSI K7T266 Pro MB (useing Via 4in1 4.37a)
GF2 Pro (12.90)

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.
December 29, 2001 3:31:18 AM

In your case (512 Mb) use the following:
MinFileCache=4096
MaxFileCache=131072

The problem occurs with Win 9x with 512 Mb or more of installed Ram. This should allow you to instal newer drivers.
December 29, 2001 4:44:39 AM

Quote:
Now that you've set up the vcache got to NVIDIA's website and Download the latest drivers version 23.11 Install them either by extracting them to a folder you created on your desktop or if they're self installing double click them. If they are not self-installing then right click the MY Computer Icon and select properties. Now select the device manager tab. Scroll down to Display adapter and click the +. Click on the graphics card identifier (Probably Standard PCI adapter) and then click the properties tab at the bottom. Now select the driver tab and then the update driver tab. Then go through the installation specifying the location of the driver (that folder you created on the desktop which you extracted the drivers to). That should do it. By the way the credit for the VCACHE settings should go to a user named Toejam who pointed me in the right direction. Later


DO NOT INSTALL THE 23.11'S

THEY HAVE ISSUES WITH VIA CHIPSETS, THEY ARE BETA DRIVERS.


INSTALL THE 21.83 WHQL CERTIFIED DRIVERS. THEY ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE SAME SITE.

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December 29, 2001 6:08:57 AM

what if you have one gig of ram or more?
December 30, 2001 1:36:14 AM

Thx, I will give these settings a try next chance I get some free time at home. BTW where do you learn this stuff? I mean you gave me different numbers than the other guy and was wondering where you learned to calculate the number?

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.
December 30, 2001 2:27:29 PM

I got those settings from a THG User named Toejam. Then I did some research on the net about vcache settings and why there's a problem. The max file size is 1/4 of your installed ram in Kb.
December 31, 2001 2:05:20 AM

I didn't have any entry at all under vcache so I added what you said. How do I know its working? My system boot fine and no apparent problems, just wondering if it changed what I needed. I didn't use msconfig like I usually do for stuff like that, was I supposed to? And where can I learn about Vcache and well any cache stuff since I know nothing of chache at all.

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.
December 31, 2001 2:43:37 AM

To see the difference use a benchmark program like 3dmark2000 (or 2001 if your hardware can handle it) from mad onion with and without the settings.com. As for reading up look online there's lots of info.
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