JeffDogg1979
Member
Here's the deal:
I have a PowerColor 64mb Geforce2 GTS video card(I've tried all Nvidia drivers from 7.x up to 14.x), my buddy has a 32mb Diamond Viper v770.
He's running an Asus board with a 1.2ghz T-Bird, I'm running a DFI board with a 1.33ghz board. We're both up to date with all the latest drivers(chipsets/videocards/NICs/SCSI adapters/etc.) and Bios revisions, and everything is installed properly.
Here comes the problem. Both he and I crash constantly in Windows 2000. All the crashes/Stop errors are always Direct 3D or AGP related(as indicated by the stop error codes) and the games themselves when they throw GPF errors.
We've both installed Win2k at least a dozen times each. Interesting note, in Windows98 (we've both installed that at some point on these new T-Bird boxes), the mouse is extremely choppy and the everything runs very crappy in win98, but in win2k everything appears to be running ok, except it takes at least 5 seconds to empty the trash with 1 item in it, and opening a window takes forever.
He recently put in a 32mb ATI Rage Fury based card, and all his video related problems went away. I'm still plugging away with my Geforce2 GTS crashing constantly. I've actually tried to underclock my system AND card, but that doesn't prevent the machine crashing with the same stop/crash errors. Should I just ditch my video card and pick up another? This is the first time in my 8 years of building systems that anything like this has ever happened. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
My rig:
InWIN Q2000 Server Case with Dual 300W
1.33ghz 266fsb T-Bird
512mb 2100 DDR Ram
DFI AK-76SN Mobo
64mb PowerColor Geforce2 GTS
3 Maxtor 20gig IDE drives
Adaptec 2940 U2W
Plextor 8/20
Creative/Ensoniq PC128
3com 905TX
Creative 2nd gen. DVD drive
Thanks,
Jeff
P.S. I don't know if this matters, but in the BIOS under power settings, it indicates that the Power Supply is actually giving more power than is "required" . Like something that requires 3.5V is getting 3.6xV or 5v is getting 5.25V. I'm not sure if that matters, but I thought it was worth noting.
I have a PowerColor 64mb Geforce2 GTS video card(I've tried all Nvidia drivers from 7.x up to 14.x), my buddy has a 32mb Diamond Viper v770.
He's running an Asus board with a 1.2ghz T-Bird, I'm running a DFI board with a 1.33ghz board. We're both up to date with all the latest drivers(chipsets/videocards/NICs/SCSI adapters/etc.) and Bios revisions, and everything is installed properly.
Here comes the problem. Both he and I crash constantly in Windows 2000. All the crashes/Stop errors are always Direct 3D or AGP related(as indicated by the stop error codes) and the games themselves when they throw GPF errors.
We've both installed Win2k at least a dozen times each. Interesting note, in Windows98 (we've both installed that at some point on these new T-Bird boxes), the mouse is extremely choppy and the everything runs very crappy in win98, but in win2k everything appears to be running ok, except it takes at least 5 seconds to empty the trash with 1 item in it, and opening a window takes forever.
He recently put in a 32mb ATI Rage Fury based card, and all his video related problems went away. I'm still plugging away with my Geforce2 GTS crashing constantly. I've actually tried to underclock my system AND card, but that doesn't prevent the machine crashing with the same stop/crash errors. Should I just ditch my video card and pick up another? This is the first time in my 8 years of building systems that anything like this has ever happened. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
My rig:
InWIN Q2000 Server Case with Dual 300W
1.33ghz 266fsb T-Bird
512mb 2100 DDR Ram
DFI AK-76SN Mobo
64mb PowerColor Geforce2 GTS
3 Maxtor 20gig IDE drives
Adaptec 2940 U2W
Plextor 8/20
Creative/Ensoniq PC128
3com 905TX
Creative 2nd gen. DVD drive
Thanks,
Jeff
P.S. I don't know if this matters, but in the BIOS under power settings, it indicates that the Power Supply is actually giving more power than is "required" . Like something that requires 3.5V is getting 3.6xV or 5v is getting 5.25V. I'm not sure if that matters, but I thought it was worth noting.
