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The story goes like this: I had a geforce256 back in the day, in addition to a p3 500e. I believe I upgraded them both at the same time. I swapped in a geforce2 gts and a p3 1ghz. The problem is that I COMPLETELY forgot about the 2/3 AGP divider. In fact, this never occurred to me over two years of use like this! :disgust: My mobo doesn't have the 1/2 divider. So for about 2 years I've ran this setup with the AGP clock at 88.6. Amazingly I've had no problems with it...until now. It will now randomly crash in different ways. Sometimes it's a hardcore lockup with no mouse movement even and sometimes XP will report the nvidia device has failed and the computer needs to shutdown. Other times it will seem to lockup and then eventually come back and report the nvidia driver was in an infinite loop. Just last month I had to turn off the sleep mode, because about 1 out of 5 times the video wouldn't wake up from sleep mode. So in the last month this has gone from no problem to where I now have sleep mode turned off, and just today it crashed hard THREE times. For two years I've left this on 24/7 with virtually no crashes ever, so you can see how this is quite a bit irritating.
Anyway, I'm pretty much assuming the video card is not going to take that kind of abuse anymore. Right now I'm running it at 100mhz x 7.5 (750mhz) just to keep the AGP clock at the standard 66mhz. I plan on running like this for a few days to see if the video card STILL craps out. If it does then I really have no choice but to replace it, but either way, I'm not going to be happy running my old 1 gig at 750 just to make things work.
So now I'm not sure if I should be replacing the mobo with another old one with the 1/2 divider or what. I can't just go buy a p4 mobo because then not only is my video card possibly still a problem, but all my RAM *and* my CPU is useless as well. I don't want to replace my entire system at this time. I'm a broke-ass college student. (almost done!) So I would rather spend a little and get the same performance I've had or possibly slightly more until I get a real job and can replace this beast completely. I have several ancient video cards that will work if the card fails completely, but I need to play Vice City once in awhile too! 😛
Please check "my riggs" to see my hardware.
The story goes like this: I had a geforce256 back in the day, in addition to a p3 500e. I believe I upgraded them both at the same time. I swapped in a geforce2 gts and a p3 1ghz. The problem is that I COMPLETELY forgot about the 2/3 AGP divider. In fact, this never occurred to me over two years of use like this! :disgust: My mobo doesn't have the 1/2 divider. So for about 2 years I've ran this setup with the AGP clock at 88.6. Amazingly I've had no problems with it...until now. It will now randomly crash in different ways. Sometimes it's a hardcore lockup with no mouse movement even and sometimes XP will report the nvidia device has failed and the computer needs to shutdown. Other times it will seem to lockup and then eventually come back and report the nvidia driver was in an infinite loop. Just last month I had to turn off the sleep mode, because about 1 out of 5 times the video wouldn't wake up from sleep mode. So in the last month this has gone from no problem to where I now have sleep mode turned off, and just today it crashed hard THREE times. For two years I've left this on 24/7 with virtually no crashes ever, so you can see how this is quite a bit irritating.
Anyway, I'm pretty much assuming the video card is not going to take that kind of abuse anymore. Right now I'm running it at 100mhz x 7.5 (750mhz) just to keep the AGP clock at the standard 66mhz. I plan on running like this for a few days to see if the video card STILL craps out. If it does then I really have no choice but to replace it, but either way, I'm not going to be happy running my old 1 gig at 750 just to make things work.
So now I'm not sure if I should be replacing the mobo with another old one with the 1/2 divider or what. I can't just go buy a p4 mobo because then not only is my video card possibly still a problem, but all my RAM *and* my CPU is useless as well. I don't want to replace my entire system at this time. I'm a broke-ass college student. (almost done!) So I would rather spend a little and get the same performance I've had or possibly slightly more until I get a real job and can replace this beast completely. I have several ancient video cards that will work if the card fails completely, but I need to play Vice City once in awhile too! 😛
Please check "my riggs" to see my hardware.
