Asus V7100 GeForce 2 MX gaming PROBLEMS!!

[jere01]

I recently bought a Asus V7100 GeForce 2 MX and i have had nothing but problems with games exiting into windows and crashing. I have a Celeron 2 600 overclocked to 900 on a Gigabyte motherboard... 128 megs of pc133 ram... I installed the latest drivers for the vid card and installed DirectX 8 etc and have pretty much updated everything because i formatted my HD when i got the video card. I cannot stand this anymore and just want to take the card back. The thing is... I didn't hear anything bad about this card until after i bought it and started gaming with it. After looking at the forums on the Asus website (which appear to be very useless and slow) I found that lots of people were having the same problems. I would just like to find a fix for this problem and get back to my games. If someone could help me i would greatly apreciate it. Thanking you in advance,

Jeremy

 

[jere01]

Can someone please help me with this problem. It is only happening wiht 3D games such as Halflife, Project IGI and Tony Hawk 2. Games like Age of Empires II and Command and Conquer don't crash. Any suggestions would be greatly apreciated!

 

[Cerb]

Get another brand MX.

 

[MeloManiac]

I don't have any problems with my V7100 on a TBird system. But I can see you have DirectX 8 - maybe you should get rid of that

 

[jere01]

I don't really want to get another brand MX.... because i'm sure this one is fine it's just something that i am doing wrong. How do I go back to Direct X 7? I thought DX 8 was uninstallable. Thanks a lot for your help.

 

[MeloManiac]

Go to www.reactorcritical.com, I think they have a link to the DX uninstaller.

 

[jere01]

ok thanks a lot
hopefully that will fix the problem
is DX 7 on that same web site?

 

[jere01]

For anyone else who had this same problem... although I'm not positive it will fix it... but you can find Direct X 7.0 at http://www.matroxusers.com/Driver/DirectX/dx70eng.exe

 

[Kaiser__Sose]

i had the same prob but ever since i installled powerstrip i no longer get lock ups.. if i forget to run powerstrip before playing a game it crashes.

 

[Kaiser__Sose]

i had the same prob but ever since i installled powerstrip i no longer get lock ups.. if i forget to run powerstrip before playing a game it crashes.

 

[jere01]

Kaiser do you have the same card? I installed powerstrip and i'm gonna go try counterstrike now... i am realy really hoping it's not gonna crash every 10 mins like it did before. This is really starting to get annoying and i have no idea how to fix it. Is there anything I have to set up with powerstrip?

 

[jere01]

This really sucks........
the same thing happens
although this time it took about 45 mins before it crashed.... but it could have been a coincidence. I have no idea what to do now.. can someone please help

 

[MeloManiac]

Are you sure that your OC'ed Celeron is perfectly stable with heavy 3D gaming? Your MX card could be generating a lot more heat than your previous gfxcard, so the first think I would do was to set it to 600mhz and see if it still happens.

 

[Mem]

jere01,
MeloManiac is correct you should go back down to defaults speed when you install a new graphics card,get the card stable first then start overclocking afterwards,btw what drivers are you using?& go into bios disable fastwrites & all video shadowing.

 

[loveturtle]

see if it is your power suply
get rid of all cards except the video then boot up and try a game if it works then your power supply is inadequate

 

[loveturtle]

is that a gigabyte mb?if so I heard that a lot of them cant supply enough power accross the agp bus when 3d is going

 

[jere01]

I really apreciate all the help I have been getting on this issue. I had thought about the processor maybe being unstable clocked up that high before but I didn't really want to consider it. I want that to be the last thing I try. How do I disable video shadowing and fastwrites? I looked in the normal motherboard bios and it's not there so I figured it must be in the vid card's bios but i'm not sure how to access it. I want to try this before I reduce my processor speed and reinstall windows. Thanks a lot

 

[Kaiser__Sose]

yea i have the V7100 mx

you don't have to reinstall windows to change the clock back to 600... i have a 533@850 and when i clock back to 533 it still crashes if i don't have powerstrip on..

in powerstrip i have the disable vertical sync option checked and everthing else unchecked.. i'm running in 2x mode. and the card is clocked at 195core and 200 ram...(i only overclocked the card after the board was stable)..
i still have lockups from time to time (every couple days) within 5mins of booting up.. but once i reboot everthing is fine.. it's funny but i don't know what it is... (never happened with the v3 or radeon)... i've done a fresh install since i had these cards in there so it's not a driver prob...
i'm just leaving my setup as is cuz i can play 3d games without crashing (for now at least).. ima get a fan on the hs and see if that helps...

 

[Mem]

jere01,it will be in the BIOS for motherboard,not all boards have fastwrites listed in there,however Video shadowing should be listed in there,check you manual on Bios info for motherboard.

 

[crash2much]

Unfortunatly I've had the same sort of problems with 4 different geoforce/nvidia based cards on 3 different systems. After much head banging, crying , and machine beating it turns out that these cards have voltage issues, or many motherboards have voltage issues with these cards. Guillemot was the only tech support team brave enough to give me the painful truth, lose the card or lose the motheboard. Flashing bios, changing drivers, changing aperture size , change IRQ did nothing. Changing motherboard to an Epox(the only one I found through trial an error) fixed the problem. Good luck.

 

[jere01]

Hey everyone thanks for all your help. I got it fixed last night! But you're probably gonna be surprised at what fixed it. The problem was actually quite simple. I was playing couterstrike last night for about 10 mins and I had died so I decided to open up my box and see how hot the heat sink was on my v card. It was really hot so I went and found this fan that I had sitting around, stacked up some CDs and put the fan on top of the CDs facing the vid card... I had the fan blowing on the vid car for the whole time i played which was about an hour and a half. Without the fan 3D games usually crash in about 15-25 mins.

Is it the fact that I have my processor overclocked 300 mhz a reason for this large ammount of heat from my geforce2? I guessing it probably shouldn't heat up that much because it didn't come with a fan or anything. Oh well I'm glad it's working well now. I'm gonna go format now and get everything running nicely.
Thanks for your help