I was at my friend's house this weekend, and his TNT2 is messed up, I don't know if it's the card itself at fault or if it just has bad drivers.
The card posts and boots up perfectly fine, but there are problems when you try to do anything. For example... If you click on to display properties and click screen saver, it'll freeze instead of displaying the little preview monitor thing. It's possible to get out of that with alt-ctrl-del, though. Also, no games seem to work (freezes).
What could be wrong? I already asked him if he was sure the fan on the card was plugged in and working properly, and he confirmed that it was. I can't really think of anything else... Perhaps its incompatible with his system? He has an Athlon 550 on Asus K7V with 64MB PC133 SDRAM.
Currently he's using a 4MB Creative Labs Graphics Blaster I think. He said that StarCraft would not run. I don't see why it won't... This leads me to suspect that there's a problem unrelated to his video card, but I can't think of anything!
Could the card possibly just be defective? I don't see how it would just not work properly.
I brought over the Banshee (PCI, 16MB) when I was at his place. We couldn't find any drivers except for a Banshee AGP one. We used it anyway, even though the card was PCI. Everything seemed to work fine, but some things weren't performing to great, so I wanted to eliminate any possibility of the drivers causing trouble. Eventually we got our hands on the latest Win9x Banshee drivers from 3DFx and set them up. Well, after that, 640x480 would not work properly! We could play in 800x600 and 1024x768 (his 14" wouldn't go higher), but 640x480 wouldn't work! It looked as if the monitor wouldn't support it, all distorted and everything.
I am suspicious of his system... It just doesn't feel right. I just know there's a problem somewhere, but I don't know what it is! It's not normal for things to be as screwy as they were on his comp. Also, we overclocked (after messing with the Banshee, not before). We went in the BIOS and selected 105 instead of 100, and got 577MHz. Then 110 and we got 605MHz. Seemed to work fine, but after 2 seconds of 3D gameplay it froze, so we clocked back down to 550 (100).
Aaanyways... I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions you can offer! Thanks. 😀
Cretin
The card posts and boots up perfectly fine, but there are problems when you try to do anything. For example... If you click on to display properties and click screen saver, it'll freeze instead of displaying the little preview monitor thing. It's possible to get out of that with alt-ctrl-del, though. Also, no games seem to work (freezes).
What could be wrong? I already asked him if he was sure the fan on the card was plugged in and working properly, and he confirmed that it was. I can't really think of anything else... Perhaps its incompatible with his system? He has an Athlon 550 on Asus K7V with 64MB PC133 SDRAM.
Currently he's using a 4MB Creative Labs Graphics Blaster I think. He said that StarCraft would not run. I don't see why it won't... This leads me to suspect that there's a problem unrelated to his video card, but I can't think of anything!
Could the card possibly just be defective? I don't see how it would just not work properly.
I brought over the Banshee (PCI, 16MB) when I was at his place. We couldn't find any drivers except for a Banshee AGP one. We used it anyway, even though the card was PCI. Everything seemed to work fine, but some things weren't performing to great, so I wanted to eliminate any possibility of the drivers causing trouble. Eventually we got our hands on the latest Win9x Banshee drivers from 3DFx and set them up. Well, after that, 640x480 would not work properly! We could play in 800x600 and 1024x768 (his 14" wouldn't go higher), but 640x480 wouldn't work! It looked as if the monitor wouldn't support it, all distorted and everything.
I am suspicious of his system... It just doesn't feel right. I just know there's a problem somewhere, but I don't know what it is! It's not normal for things to be as screwy as they were on his comp. Also, we overclocked (after messing with the Banshee, not before). We went in the BIOS and selected 105 instead of 100, and got 577MHz. Then 110 and we got 605MHz. Seemed to work fine, but after 2 seconds of 3D gameplay it froze, so we clocked back down to 550 (100).
Aaanyways... I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions you can offer! Thanks. 😀
Cretin
