After 8 hours, found why XP and my Geforce would not work together !

[cotton]

I would like to pass on the problems and fix, that I had when installing a Gainwood Cardexpert Geforce 3 card.
I bought the above video card and installed a clean version of XP pro on my Asus CUSL2-C Pentium 3. After sucessfully installinig XP, I installed the latest drivers from Nvidia and did not install any of the Gainwoods programs that came with the card.
I then installed my DVD software (WinDVD) and tried a DVD. It locked up and XP rebooted on its own and when it restarted, XP gave me a message "it appears that your Nvidia drivers has caused a problem"
I then tried other Detonator XP drivers and same problem.
I then installed Max Payne and Unreal Tourn, and both games froze and XP rebooted and gave me the same message about Nvidia drivers causing the problem. I again tried other XP drivers and the games and DVD player froze.
SInce I had 98SE backed up an my second hard drive, I changed the ribbon to that hard drive, booted up and after the BIOS and memory check, the screen went black and and a small red square was flashing in the upper left corner and would not boot into 98.
The problem lied in the fact that I was overclocking the CPU (not the video card) I was running my P3 850 at 8.5 x 110
As soon as I reset the BIOS to 8.5 x 100 all was well, games and DVD in XP worked flawlessly, the hard drive with 98 booted up.
I hope that this helps some that may be experiencing problems with overclocking their CPU and running a Gainwood Geforce 3

 

[CraigRT]

Weird. You mustn't have been running that CPU at that speed very long.. I run my 700E @ 933 for over a year and even when i format and re-install the OS, i leave it at 933, it's been there forever (except when it was at 966 for a while) and has always worked great (same motherboard for the last half of the year, too)

 

[Vegito]

very weird, I seem to be seeing a lot of overclock cpu wont run well under XP..

 

[cotton]

Well, I the CPU has been in my computer for almost a year running at 935 with WIndows98SE and a Voodoo 5500.
Before installing XP on my other h.d., I installed the Geforce 3 in my AGP and left the cpu running at 935.
WHen I changed the ribbon to the h.d. with 98SE, it would not boot at 935 (as it always had in the past) with the Geforce. Also, I had already uninstalled all the drivers for the Voodoo prior to installing the Geforce. It just wouldnt boot up until I changed back to the default of 850.
SInce it had been running oveclocked for a year, I dont think it was a problem with the the CPU or the CUSL2-c.