Abit KT7 and Geforce2 MX, anyone have any luck yet? Stability Issues Inno3dGF2MX

[hopster]

I think the title says it all. I've read the FAQs which acknowledge stability issues and offer some possible resolutions but nothing seems to work.

Tried Detonator 5.22, 6.31, used the new VIA 4in1 drivers, and tried many BIOS settings as suggested on other sites such as the following FAQ: http://go.to/kt7faq

After 2 days of fiddling, I'm still not 100%. Games such as Crimson Skies crash and hang the system several minutes into play. Anyone have more luck with this combination of motherboard/video card?

If so, what was done to achieve stability?

 

[Maverick2002]

i got a kt7 and a leadtek card.......nothing was done.......just plugged it in and turned it on......

 

[hopster]

Maverick2002

Have you tried newer games such as Crimson Skys? I'm stable in older games, as well as 3dMark2000 but the high end newer games are killing me. Unreal Tournement is okay... with a lock every so often. (hour or so) Which Via/NVidia drivers are you using?

 

[Maverick2002]

i play counterstrike every day and quake 3 every now and then....no probs at all.....

 

[Dravic]

try uping you I/O volatge to 3.5

I was initially having some stability problems in 3dmark200 and quake3. 100% stable now.

The geforce2 family cards like the 3.5 I/O voltage.

I had always assumes that it didn't pretain to me since i was running an MX(lower power consumption and all), but low and behold it fixed it.

 

[hopster]

Yeah, tried the voltage trick as well. Still no go. Same stability either way. So far the games that are a sure thing to lock are Crimson Skies and Metal Fatigue. Many others are okay, and I can run benchmarks for quite a while. Took everything else out of the system and ran with Sound and Video only. Still no good. Crimson Skies is a pretty instense game with lots of action and I love it... Geez, this sucks.

Video card is the Inno3d Geforce2MX.

 

[Maverick2002]

try playing CS or something......at least a game i know about....then i may be able to help ya....

 

[Dravic]

hmm sorry to hear the no go on the volatge..

Have you tried the 6.31 drivers

 

[Maverick2002]

better yet 6.34 if ya have winME.......itll crash on most 6.31.... i found out the hard way....

 

[hopster]

My luck CS would probably work. Makes me wonder if there is something strange with Crimson Skies alone or something sorta like the TNT cards used to have problems with Midtown Madness if anyone remembers that issue. On the other hand Unreal Tournement does lock after 1/2 hour to an hour... so I know it's not totally clean in other games either.

 

[hopster]

6.31 was crashing, Really? I thought 6.31 was supposed to be AMD/Duron safe... Okay, I'll go and try 6.34 and 6.35 and see what happens. On top of that I just downloaded DirectX-8 and we'll see what that does.

 

[StickHead]

Hey, I have the exact same motherboard and video card. Mine works like a charm. Sorry.

 

[Maverick2002]

6.31 doesnt crash because of the hardware, it crashes because of winME.........it has a prob with nvidia cards and 6.31 drivers........blue screen of death comes up (windows protection error) when you try to shutdown after a lot of 3d use........

 

[THEJUICE]

I had some issues with this vid card and KT7 (raid) too-
got the 6.34 drivers (i thinkn they have spec. fix for metal fatigue too) and have directx 7.0 seems to be workin smoothly. managed to o/c the card to 205,195, with minimal artifacts