MSI 831 GeForce2 PRO crashes system when gaming. Need Help!!

[velvetwolf]

My card crashes and locks my system when I try to play Halflife. Just got the new system this weekend. Installed Windows98 and all the cards and drivers for everything. Everything else seems to be running fine. I've tried Direct3D and Open Gl. I just installed it into my new system. 3DMark 2001 aborts when I try to Bench. I've tried Detonator 12.41 & 12.90. I'm using NVmax w/ No vsync no AA. AGP Aperature set to 128. Not even overclocking it. The card installed w/o problems as far as I can tell. Could there be a conflict between the mobo and the video card? Or any other piece of hardware? Could there be a problem with the card? I couldn't get it to run properly in my old system either. With the old system it there were very very low fps, but it didn't crash the system and I could at least benchmark it. I figuered it was a conflict with an old ATI driver in the registry or something. I don't know where to go from here!! Any Ideas?? Thanks.



System:
AMD TBird 1.33@ 1.461
Gigabyte GA-7DXR
256 PC2100
Msi 831 Geforce 2 PRO
Windows 98
DirectX8

 

[V00DOO]

I have the same problem with the MSI 831 Geforce 2 Pro 64MB DDR. I wasn't able to play CS for more than an hour straight without Win 2k crashing. I reinstalled CS and reset all my hardware to Default settings to no avail. I finally traced the problem to the Video card generating too much heat and the onboard HSF does not provide adequate cooling. My suggest is change the Video card's onboard HSF with a blue orb. That's my own case, duno if it also relates to your problem. Good luck. Don't head shot me if you see me in de_dust.

 

[BlakkIce]

try to check if u have conflicts i used to have one between my geforce and my controller card causing hard locks

 

[velvetwolf]

I don't even have a chance for the card to heat up. I can't get the HL to run at all. As soon as I connect to a server and the session is going to begin the whole PC locks up. I can't even CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart. I have to reset. When I try to benchmark w/ 3DMark 2001 as soon as the testing demo begins the program aborts and I'm left staring at my desktop. WTF??? How do I check for conflicts? Also, how do I tell if my card has 5.5ns or 5ns RAM? And what does that refer to?