Help with my V5

[nealh]

I built an AMD 1.2ghz system recently and had enormous probs with it...found out my V5 was not able to do hardware accel all of a sudden...I have run it at default cpu and memory speeds and V5 is not o/c...it runs 2D fine...but all 3D crashes...it can not even run directx hardware accel test consistently....now I have moved the card around but I am always careful about static...

I moved the card back to my piii system and same problem is present 2D fine no 3D hardware acceleration.....lockups up

I have tried different drivers and 3dfx tools even tried drivers only...no 3dfx tools same problem...

any ideas????

 

[RoboTECH]

that sucks man, sounds like your card is jacked up

🙁

 

[nealh]

Strange as hell...I moved it from the piii to the AMD system because I loved this card...got to work once for 45 min ...then I screwed with my pci cards and there slots and card never worked again....maybe I fried it somehow...but why 2D still works but not 3D.....

 

[nealh]

Anyone....

 

[RoboTECH]

that is very veyr strange indeed

have you used it on a fresh install of windows?

 

[nealh]

Yes more than once...I used with a clean install of WinMe and W98SE...I then put it back in my Intel bx based system..where it came from....same problem...runs 2D but not 3D...

Each clean install I would Fdisk then format C:...all with Win startup disk and either WinMe or W98SE

Robotech...thanks for the interest

 

[JonDude]

Just an Idea but perhaps one of the chips is blown ? If you can disable one try that .

 

[nealh]

Good point..thanks.I will try that...but then I have neuterd V5...not much performance...............