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ASUS A7V video problems

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mk1gti

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I just installed an ASUS A7V motherboard with a 750 mhz AMD thunderbird processor. In addition to a long boot up time, every time that I go into a glide / openGL / D3D game the system crashes. I thought perhaps it might be due to my secondary video card, a Voodoo 2, so I removed that completly yet it still happens. I tried adjusting the BIOS system setting from 'optimal' to 'normal' in adv. sys. perf. settings, which seemed to help a little bit; it allowed the computer to get into the new game screen, but again, when it went to the game itself it crashed.
I started off with a completly new Win 98SE install to remove any possible conflicts, and at this time I have the minimal amount of things in my directories to reduce the possibility of any other 3rd party vendor products affecting things, yet I'm still getting the video crashes. I also flashed the BIOS with the latest VIA 4-in-1 update, with no noticible change to anything. My system specs are below, hope someone is able to help to get this resolved, otherwise, as much as I would hate to do it, I may end up taking my motherboard back to the place I bought it and get a refund.

AMD Athlon Thunderbird 750 Mhz.
128 mb ram
300 watt Athlon approved power supply
Matrox G-200 video card on the AGP bus
Soundblaster Live Value
3DFX Voodoo 2 video card (since removed and left off until things are fixed)
Seagate Barracuda 27 GB hard drive
Sony 200 ES monitor
 
hmm, why don't you take out your matrox card and run the Voodoo 2 alone to establish the fact that your AGP port isn't the problem... when you installed the via 4in1 drivers did you enable DMA under IDE Bus Master? if not run the program again nnd do so, that may help speed up the boot, but i'm not sure. The long boot could really be a lot of different things, but the crashing under d3d, opengl could be due to old drivers, do you have the most recent matrox drivers? Again, switch over to the voodoo 2 and see if you can get glide/d3d/opengl to work, LMK
 
Ok its a long shot, but look at your IRQs, is your V2, AGP card, and sound card sharing an IRQ? Do you notice a bunch of devices crowding an IRQ? This happened to be the cause of my extremely long start up time and regular crashes, and all I did was use hardware manager to reserve the IRQ and everything dispersed, go figure.
 
What kind of memory do you have? PC100/PC133 and manufacturer
What do you mean by 'system crashs' and 'video crashs'? Do you blue screen? Does it hang? Specifics would help.
I doubt the problem is with the A7V or the AMD. Most likely a device driver problem, memory, or the glide / openGL / D3D game. Really doesn't sound like a hardware problem tho.
How does the system seem to be behaving for everything else? Other games/applications?
 
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