GeForce4 4400 crashing problems....Agp voltage?

[BeyondGomer]

Specs:
Athlon XP 1800+
Soyo Dragon Ultra kt333
3x Corsair 256 mb Cas 2 pc2700
Winfast Leadtek Geforce4 4400 Ti
WD 80 gig
330 W power supply (antec)

My crashes have occured after 1- 10 mins of playing games.. I get sometimes blue screens and sometimes just dumps to the desktop..
I have every driver up to date and I have toyed around with stripping down all video features

...i just reacently came across this. It is from VIA:
" Some motherboard manufacturers have reported a power drain issue with higher end video cards like the new GeForce 4 cards. If your video card does not have enough voltage supplied to the AGP port by default, you will experience the loop error. If your CPU does not receive enough voltage you will get a drop to desktop, not an AGP lock up. VIA are working very closely with all of our motherboard customers to ensure that all motherboards using VIA chipsets have the correct voltage settings for the latest video cards. "

b]...so what do I do??!?!?!?!!??!?![/b]

What do I need to change my agp voltage? what should I change it to?
Also, would plugging in the 12v agp pro power supply (4 pin on the mb) help, or is that only for agp pro cards explicitly?[

 

[Jwyatt]

Check in the system bios to see if there is a agp voltage setting. Take it up a notch or 2

 

[Jwyatt]

I have also read people using the AGP driving control to help overclock the video card. You can try that. Set it to manual then go down to then next selection and increase this value. Its letters and Im not sure what they are, but go up a couple notches on that. I think its actually a voltage increase? I might be mistaken though.

 

[BeyondGomer]

strange thing.

i adjusted the agp to 1.7v....but after a while, it goes back to 1.5 volts! (bios is still at 1.7, but HW monitor says 1.5)

..and I still get an infinate loop error....screen freezes..and I get a sound file loop=(

 

[AnAndAustin]

Yeah, nVidia actually recs setting the AGP Driving ctrl in BIOS to DA (IIRC DO NOT QUOTE ME ON THAT) which is a little higher than the default. This is essentially AGP voltage coded in hex. The way hex works is 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E (we use 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). So when 1 digit is full up, like when we get to 9, the number has to use 2 digits ie. 10. So in hex don't change the first number or letter as it's far more significant than the right-hand one. Eg don't change DA to EA, change it to DB or DC.

It could be a prob with having all 3 DIMM RAM slots filled, many mobos experience instability so try taking 1 out. Also try switching the 2 in use around as it could be 1 stick has developed a fault.

The VIA mobos have issues with the PCI bus, fixes are found every where, so download and run it. And the 4in1 drivers along with the latest non-BETA drivers for ALL hardware, be sure to check both manu and chipset's websites.

Otherwise you need to swap in good components 1 at a time to see if that helps. It could be the CPU, HSF, mobo, RAM, gfx card or PSU (even though it's a great PSU it can still have manu defects). You can try to re-install Windows to see if it could be a sw fault.

Gotta go my wife wants the PC!

 

[lindholm]

You didnt tell us what OS you are running.

I would bet its Windows XP or w2k though.

http://www.charnleys.co.uk/NVmax4.exe

Download and install this util. (If you are having trouble with the installationprogram, download the zipped version from www.nvmax.com somewhere).
Look through the settings and mark the box that says 'BSOD 'infinite loop' fix'.

I hope that works.
Regards,
Daniel Lindholm

 

[BeyondGomer]

thanks, I will try removing all but 1 ram stick and see what happens=)