Kt7-Raid and Geforce 2 Crashing (Part 2)

[LordKevii]

First off, to the people who read my previous post, thanks for the info given so far.

My computer crashes whenever I try to run 3d programs.
This is what I have:
Kt7-Raid
Athlon Tbird 1ghz @1ghz
Prophet II MX
Kingston ValueRam Pc133 128meg
IBM Deskstar 75XGP 45 gig

Starting over, this is what I did.
I double checked my Bios settings... AGP4x was disabled, Aperature size = 64 meg, fast write disabled, and Video Bios shadowing was disabled.
As far as I can tell its not sharing an IRQ.

I did a clean install of Windows98se, Installed the most current 4in1 drivers(after finally finding VIAGART.cat)
Then I installed the VIA usb update, the MS win98se USB update, Directx 7.0a, and finally the Nvidia Det3's. After the quick install of my sound card I attempted to play Half-Life. It freezes during the movie at the very beginning. The point of freezing changes each time. (once I almost made it all the way through). After much frustration, I remembered to flash my bios. Did that and nothing. I'm at complete loss. http://go.to/kt7faq was helpful, but didn't solve my problem. I'm |-| this close to returning the board. Any and All help would be nice!

-Kevii

 

[BlueScreenVW]

This is sort of a longshot, but I had a lot of trouble with my GF2 MX on KT7 RAID initially. It would crash about every second time I fired up Q3A, just at the intro (when switching resolution). After most recent VIA 4in1, BIOS flash on both KT7 and GF2MX, and new drivers, the problems where gone. Unfortunately, I don't know what caused them - I did all the updates at the same time, and didn't identify the problem very well. Also, I had some trouble with "twin view" not being correctly disabled in some detonator driver (but this shouldn't affect you). After the updates the card was stable at default speed, but the card's memory wouldn't overclock more than 5 MHz without artifacts. Thus I tried raising the I/O voltage in bios: no success. Then I tried lowering the I/O voltage, and voilá! With a setting of 3.20 V in bios (detected as 3.28 by mobo), the memory suddenly overclocked another 20 MHz. I almost didn't believe it at first, but after having verified it with a couple of different games there isn't shadow of a doubt: a 20 MHz gain.

Also, I have every other setting that affects AGP in bios tweaked in the performance direction: after the voltage adjustment, the board is stable as a rock. I believe the capacitive (as opposed to resistive) nature of SDRAM is the reason why lowering the voltage can have this not-at-all-obvious effect.

Sorry about the funny language! I'm not only swedish, but also tired...