GF3 Ti200 probs (Gainward)

[LaVoS]

Heya im having Problems with Random Lockups after installing my new GF3 Ti200 (Gainward/Cardexpert) Golden Sample... it seems to run fine then all of the sudden the computer locks up... probly about ever 20 min or so... I donwloaded the Det XP Drivers and such and that did not help... im on a ECS K7S5A Mobo Athlon 1ghz 256sdram Antech 350 PSU... this was not a problem with my VooDoo 3 2000 that i just took out... any help would be greatly aprreciated thanx!

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Check to see if it's a heat issue.

 

[DARRIN]

Did you uninstall all the voodoo stuff first?

 

[LaVoS]

Hmmm well i did not uninstall my VooDoo stuff first... but it is not there any more... so im assumming that it has uninstalled it self (im running on win XP... seems to like to do a lot of stuff on its own LOL)... it could be a heat issuse cos i just put new ACII on my Heatsink.... but it doesnt seem to be running THAT hot... only 96 degrees F... so i donno.... other then that the DDR Heatsinks seem fine and the Fan on the Card is running fine... its not overclocked or anything... maybe i should downclock it or somehting... hmmm

 

[Challenger]

When uninstalling the voodoo stuff you do a search in Windows/system file for 3dfx,delete all of those then look for ogl.xxx right click it and if it says company name 3dfx delete it.Sometimes when you uninstall the 3dfx tools it will leave all those files in the system folder and cause conflicts.hope this helps!

 

[LaVoS]

Well i was right it looks like the 3Dfx stuff uninstalled itself... its not there i searched for it and everyhting... seems to be getting better now but its crashing in Soldier of Fortune the most... and Max Payne... Unreal Tournament is working fine (witch is odd cos its relly picky with 3D card drivers LOL) so hmmm... i guess ill just have to wait over nigth for the magic computer fary to fix it ;-) LOL

 

[PraetorChu]

get the ecs sis735 chipset agp drivers. along with amd agp drivers.

those fixed the problem for me.

 

[LaVoS]

Thanx! Any Idea where i could find thoughs AGP Drivers?

 

[LaVoS]

Ok i found the ECS K7S5A AGP Drivers... where can i find the AMD ones? thanx :-D

 

[NesuD]

PraetorChu is wrong you don't need any AMD agp driver only the sis agp and board drivers. There are no amd chips on that board other than the cpu and cpu's don't need a driver. Personally sounds to me like uninstalled voodoo crap though. Did you install regular voodoo drivers or did you just use the ones included in XP?. if you installed voodoo drivers other than the native xp ones then you have a problem. Those things are a pain to get rid of. I ended up doing a clean install of windows to get rid of them. Even after i uninstalled them it still kept messing up my Geforce until i formatted and reinstalled windows then all was well after that. There is a file for removing voodoo drivers from 2000/xp here is a link for the file that walks you through it. Don't know if it works worth a try though.