I would like to pass on the problems and fix, that I had when installing a Gainwood Cardexpert Geforce 3 card that only took me about 8 hours to find out the problem
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
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
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