KT7-Raid and Geforce 2 MX crashing starting games

[LordKevii]

After a long night of trying to figure this out... I decided to come to this message board...

I just bought a KT7 Raid with a thunderbird 1ghz. Everything installs fine, but when I attempt to run a 3d application (Half-life, Quake3) the machine locks up.
I've already tried increasing the I/O voltage and that seemed to let it run a couple seconds longer. Video Bios Shadowing is disabled I just don't know what else to try. Please help.


My specs:
kt7-raid
prophet mx II
athlon T-bird 1ghz
Kingston Pc100 128 meg
Kingston Pc133 128 Meg

-Kevii

 

[natedog]

Try soaking it a big tub of warm water. Those computer parts tend to dry out very quickly. Make sure to keep them nice and moist so that they don't get to hot or anything. You're welcome in advance......

Natedog


HAHAHHAHAHAHAH

 

[AC]

which OS?
which drivers?
could it be irq sharing?

 

[natedog]

I'll help my friend out a little since he didn't say everything he could have in his message. His machine had been working perfectly fine, then he got a new mobo and cpu, then this problem started. He tried a different video card and it still did it. That rules out a problem with the video card. His cpu doesn't seem to overheat. It maxes out in the low to mid 40's.

My suggestion is something is set up wrong with the mobo. Looking at the different bios screens there doesn't appear to be anywhere to set the agp clock, so it just defaults to 2/3, or is there a way to change it?

Ok, now maybe someone can give more help?

He's using windows 98 SE by the way. And I don't think drivers are a problem since he swapped the vid card and reinstalled his current one 3 times with no avail. Thanks for helping him.

Nathan

 

[Mem]

LordKevii did you install the 4 in 1 drivers?,go into Bios disable fastwrites,try setting memory timings to slower speed,even try AGP at 2x until you can get it stable in games,btw the Nvidia 6.31 drivers seem to work great (at least on my system).Is he running the ram at 133mhz or 100?try running them at 100mhz.

BTW last note try going here for more tips.

 

[Mark R]

Try the fail-safe BIOS defaults, and try adjusting the 'AGP drive control' parameter in the BIOS as directed in the KT7 FAQ (linked by Mem).

Have you got a different graphics card? If so, try that. You may find that changing to a different brand of Geforce or another type of accelerator solves the problem.

 

[natedog]

He fixed it. Was the MX300 problem. Installed the reference aureal drivers and it works fine now.