Athlon and Geforce... and site issues

[Kwantum]

First, sorry if this post is a repeat but, I am unable to search this site w/o IE freezing up. I only have this issue with the Anandtech pages. Is anyone else having these issues with this site?
Got a workaround?

The real topic:
I have an Athlon 700, Asus K7V, Prophet GeForce DDR card in a seperate system and I have seen a very slim amount of info regarding the stability issues I experience with this system combination. Are there any workarounds to get these to integratge smoothly? I have updated the mainboard with all the available patches and tried the latest detonator drivers as well as the Prophet drivers... still no luck. Unreal Tournament lasts anywhere from 2-15 minutes depending on video settings.

1) Can this be fixed?

2) Does the GeForce2 GTS knock out all of these problems?

3) Do I need to get a Voodoo5?

Please help, I will try to get on this site agin to check the respones but, the stability on this site might keep me from getting on here. Maybe some kind soul could email me some good referances and advice as well as posting it.

Thanks,
Kwantum

 

[Kitros]

What happens so that you are noticing "stability problems"?

See my signature...it's working fine, and I don't know anyone here who has "stability" problems with this site...

Perhaps a bad connection? Perhaps....everything.

We need some more details, man.

edit: Maybe you should start from scratch. Reinstall everything(if you found these forums, you can probably hold your own) Have you tried messing with everthing? Mabe it's a defective board....return it if possible and try a new one! Try everything else first....then you might learn something....which is a good thing.

 

[Kwantum]

Sorry, but, the two problems I listed are seperate and I should not have listed them together for lack of clarity.

I have an Athlon 700, Prophet GeForce (not GTS) DDR vid card, and Asus K7V m-board.

The problem is this:

3D applications freeze during D3D operation. Examples: Unreal Tournament and Asheron's Call. The time it takes for the program to freeze or boot me to the desktop seems to be linked to the video setins (ie. resolution and color depth).

Solutions I have tried:
First off the system has nothing installed but the two above listed games and Norton System Works. I have already updated all of the drivers (busmaster and agp, etc)from the Asus' website and all the different GeForce drivers (current Prophet DDR and two versions of detonator drivers, forget the version numbers). On top of that the machine has gone through 2 full formats and one of them was about a week ago. The video card was in my P2-350 machine prior to building this system and I never had a freeze up with it.


Does anyone have similar problems with this mainboard/video card/CPU comination? Did you get it repaired? Am I just an unlucky guy?

~Kwantum

P.S. Please help, my frustration is driving me to insanity. And, I wasn't that far from it before.

 

[Gstanfor]

The problems stem from the fact that you have a board with the Irongate (AMD) northbridge on it.

You could try:
* checking AMD's website for recent AGP drivers.
* forcing AGP 1x
* disabling sideband addressing
* installing the 3.62 "Athlon fix" drivers

Regards

Greg

 

[Bakwetu]

Uhm-it's not an Irongate mobo, it's a via kx133 mobo. Sorry I don't have much to add, but you could also try over at http://amdzone.pcstats.com/. Do you have an approved powersupply?