Before i start sorry for the length of this
The system:
Celeron 333
Gigabyte GA-686-LX3 mobo (intel 440lx)
224 meg
Fujitsu 4.3 gb hd
Aureal Vortex Sound Card
Radeon 7000 AGP (9039 drivers - The first catalyst ones)
Innovision Savage 4 pci (fachman 1.6 drivers)
32x crdom
56k modem
floppy drive
Windows 98
Direct X 8.1 (have tried 6, 7.1 and 8)
Yes i know it sucks, too much money spent on the car!
The problem is that the system totally crashes on ALL 3d games. When the radeon is in use this usually happens as soon as a 3d game is loaded. When the savage is in use it can take anything between 2 mins to 30 mins. The system crashes totally and will not even turn off without using the switch at the back of the case.
The Games are :
Quake 3
UT
Need for Speed 4 and Porsche Unleashed
Tiger Woods 2k1
Populous
Colin Mcrae 2
The problem occurs on all drivers ive tried for both cards (and ive tried a shedload! including rade3d's tweaked drivers)
It started a few months ago when my Voodoo3 3000 packed in. The shop where the comp is from replaced this with a creative tnt2 ultra. This caused all games to crash, so i took this card back thinking it was faulty and was given the radeon 7000. This also did the same. So i think that the video cards are not to blame here (i didnt have the savage at this point). When i got the savage i tried it because i thought that maybe the voodoo had fried the agp port when it conked out. This disproves that theory as the savage is pci. Ive tried the savage on its own and the radeon on its own, still the same.
So today ive tested the ram, which is a 32 meg stick, a 64 and a 128. I tried them all on there own in each different memory bank, still the same happened. I now think that maybe the voodoo knackered the mobo? Could this be true? I cant see the processor being the problem, because all windows apps and other apps work fine, baring a few illgal operations now and again. Windows has been reinstalled many times too. I really am lost for what the problem is, so has anyone got any ideas? Nothing is overclocked.
Thanks in advance!
The system:
Celeron 333
Gigabyte GA-686-LX3 mobo (intel 440lx)
224 meg
Fujitsu 4.3 gb hd
Aureal Vortex Sound Card
Radeon 7000 AGP (9039 drivers - The first catalyst ones)
Innovision Savage 4 pci (fachman 1.6 drivers)
32x crdom
56k modem
floppy drive
Windows 98
Direct X 8.1 (have tried 6, 7.1 and 8)
Yes i know it sucks, too much money spent on the car!
The problem is that the system totally crashes on ALL 3d games. When the radeon is in use this usually happens as soon as a 3d game is loaded. When the savage is in use it can take anything between 2 mins to 30 mins. The system crashes totally and will not even turn off without using the switch at the back of the case.
The Games are :
Quake 3
UT
Need for Speed 4 and Porsche Unleashed
Tiger Woods 2k1
Populous
Colin Mcrae 2
The problem occurs on all drivers ive tried for both cards (and ive tried a shedload! including rade3d's tweaked drivers)
It started a few months ago when my Voodoo3 3000 packed in. The shop where the comp is from replaced this with a creative tnt2 ultra. This caused all games to crash, so i took this card back thinking it was faulty and was given the radeon 7000. This also did the same. So i think that the video cards are not to blame here (i didnt have the savage at this point). When i got the savage i tried it because i thought that maybe the voodoo had fried the agp port when it conked out. This disproves that theory as the savage is pci. Ive tried the savage on its own and the radeon on its own, still the same.
So today ive tested the ram, which is a 32 meg stick, a 64 and a 128. I tried them all on there own in each different memory bank, still the same happened. I now think that maybe the voodoo knackered the mobo? Could this be true? I cant see the processor being the problem, because all windows apps and other apps work fine, baring a few illgal operations now and again. Windows has been reinstalled many times too. I really am lost for what the problem is, so has anyone got any ideas? Nothing is overclocked.
Thanks in advance!
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