Most annoying, confusing, impossible video card problem... EVER

[piku]

Yes, thats right, ever. This is pissing me off more than anything before.

For some reason, ANY 3D game (and sometimes IE when it comes across image-heavy webpages) I try and run crashes my system. Nothing special, it just locks up. And I can't fix it at all. Ive uninstalled Windows ME (an adventure in itself). I've installed the default, basic drivers off of the CD that came with my system. Ive reinstalled all the programs - nothing seems to work.

This is the first problem at all ive experienced. This is a Athlon system with a Visiontek GeForce 256SDR card. Could anyone please help? I can't stand being away from Diablo 2 much longer...

 

[Adul]

have you installed the latest 41n driver for the viachipset if that is what you are using.

 

[piku]

My motherboard is an Asus K7V.

 

[Mem]

Try going here & don`t forget to tweak your bios.And this place is good for games that work & don`t work with Geforce cards click here .

 

[kuk]

Humm ... try this:

Decelerate your card in it's properties ... it's a slider, with about 4 or 5 options. set it back until no more IE crashes. Sad to say that this will disable Direct3D, and no game will run except in software mode. Then fire a call/e-mail down to Visiontek.

I've had a dimilar problem with my Diamond V550 AND Diamond Stealth III cards, when running a 9x kernel OS (Win95, 98 and ME) :| ... with W2k, no problems whatsoever.

 

[Mem]

Piku ,you should be able to get it running ,I even had my old TNT (AGP) card running great on my old LX board,& my current Geforce2 MX is running great on my AMD system so try all the tweaks, btw what PSU are you using since the Geforce SDR is very demanding of power.

 

[steelthorn]

Sigh! This is just another long standing problem with the nvidia boards. You don't hardly ever hear of the voodoo boards causing problems. Oh well, live and learn.

 

[piku]

Well the thing is the computer has been running fine for months now, so thats why I think its odd - it just started happening out of nowhere.

I am looking through the GeForce FAQ now and am going to try flashing my BIOS and the decellerating thing.

Thanks for the help so far everyone.



(edit:

<< Sigh! This is just another long standing problem with the nvidia boards. You don't hardly ever hear of the voodoo boards causing problems. Oh well, live and learn. >>



go away you aren't helping)

 

[Doomsday]

Are you running it overclocked? Because it could be crashing because of the heat making it unstable.

 

[piku]

No, its not overclocked.

It turns out I have the lasted BIOS... damn

I tried the video card thing with the slider, but the problem is it cripples the card so much it cant even run Diablo 2, and The Sims runs super choppy. Ah well, thanks anyway

I just don't get why this all of a sudden happened. methinks more investigation my myself is needed

 

[Mem]

Have you got any other software running in the background,I had a few games that did not like software running in the background.

 

[RayEarth]

1st, if you have a high quality power suply that's 300W or is AMD approved &amp; your computer has no problem turning on, then it's not the power supply.
2nd, if your computer is overclocked &amp; was working fine &amp; just started to lockup with no error messages &amp; the num lock light on your keyboard can't be turned off, your mouse is frozen &amp; all you can do is push restart, the cause can be due to overclocking, even if the temp is in reasonable conditions, I was running my retail cB0 700E@933 with pc133 right out of the box fine for a month or 2, &amp; then out of no where I got frequent hard lockups with no error messages &amp; no fatal errors, just hard lockups &amp; all I can do is push restart &amp; let it do a scandisk, &amp; the temp was between 33-35C, I had to lower my cpu down to 882mhz &amp; now no lockups.
3rd, often happens at work, a piece of the memory on the videocard or the videocard itself is starting to get bad &amp; replacing the videocard solves the problem.
4th, if you cpu is not overclocked &amp; you did a clean installation of win98 or winme &amp; you still &quot;only&quot; get lockups with no error messages, but don't get any fatal errors, blue screens or illegal operations &amp; this happens quite often, you cpu may have a problem, this happens at work sometimes, but the percentage of this problem doesn't happen as much as bad memory modules which cause fatal errors &amp; windows protection errors, but if you have no errors &amp; just lockups it's more likely a cpu.
Your problem can be one of the 4 described above, &amp; your member icon of you with one bigger eye &amp; your tongue hanging out is probably caused by the after effects of the stress of this problem, too bad your tongue can't hang out longer &amp; your big eye isn't filled with giant veins, &amp; remember to support everyones favorite software pirate, Guybrush Threepwood.