geforce and q3 demo

[Theslowone]

I was recently playing the quake 3 demo running my prophet geforce 256 ddr, and it runs smoothly just before it locks up. I don't know if this is with my video card or system itself. I am running a 566 celey@ 850, 128mb pc100 ram ran it both at 2 and 3 latency, 20gig maxtor hd 7200, a golden orb heatsink and about 4 case fans.

At first i thought it was because i had my geforce oc, but then i clocked everything normal, cpu, ram, video card, and it still had the same problem.
I changed drivers from nvidea to prophet, back to the windows me drivers, but none of this seemed to help. The lock up is happens regularly and is very aggrivating. I thought it could be anything but unreal tourny runs fine at almost any setting i run it at, and i know that unreal is more intensive on my computer than quake is.

Thanks for any help.
Theslowjoe

 

[MustangSVT]

hard ware lock up probably means heat related issue. Does it lock up exactly at same spot all the time? do u live in hot climate area? try running it not OC (video card) and with open case and a fan or something blowing in a fresh air. see what u get.

 

[Theslowone]

I have tried to see if it was heat b4, but i can take everything off and everything run normal temps and at normal clock and it still does it. I seriously thought it was heat also but like i said i can run unreal tourny for hours with no problems. Could it be a conflict of hardware and software?

 

[OuranosEXX]

did u reinstall video drivers? i suggest u use nvidia drivers, also quak3 demo is ful of bugs,maybe u just are stuck in one

 

[Theslowone]

Yeah I tried to reinstall the drivers, every set i had for the geforce, and none helped. I also just tried using a voodoo2 as the main accelerator, and that did not help. So i hope you are right and it is a bug.

 

[reefguy]

I also have a GeForce card (Tornado SDR) and I get lockups while playing graphic intense 3D games.
I have installed the newest drivers directly from nVidia and that seemed to help but did not eradicate the problem.:frown:
I am running with the case open and I live in a very moderate (New England) climate. I am able to touch the GoOrb fan on the CPU but have not tried to touch anything on the video card.
I am OC'ing a CelII 566 to 850MHz with 128MEG PC100. I have yet to contact Inno3D directly about this problem in favor of trying to exhaust other avenues.

 

[MustangSVT]

Check to see if your video card is sharing irq with other components, (mainly SB live!). First check from control pannel > system to see if they are sharing irq. then if they do see if u can manually change the irq setting either from system(in windows) or from bios.

if not Try this. Uninstall all components (sound card, network card, modem) then take those cards out and run pc only with video card on AGP and empty PCI. This will take long but if running games after that solved problems then it must be caused by other components. Then install one component at a time and run it to find the one causing the problem. Then try to install that component on different pci slot.

Another problem might actually be the heat. After running some games or graphic intensive program. AFTER GROUNDING YOURSELF!!!(very important) gently touch the ram or heatsink on the GPU to see if its hot. I think these DDR rams run rather warm as my Radeon's Rams are much warmer then GPU. And ive read some posts where Geforce's DDR rams are almost too hot to touch, so if this is the case buy some ram sinks and put them on, or if u are poor (or cheap) like me, slice up some old heatsink (with more fins(more surface area as they wont have fans on)) and put them on, see if it'll help.

If all these fail..(since u've tried fresh driver install, if not try detonator2 drivers) then i suggest u exchange your card for another one, or time to go shoppin for a new card.