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Please help, serious problems with my GF2 and p3v4x

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hkssupra69

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I just recently got a PNY geforce2pro and installed it into my mobo, an asus p3v4x, it has been nothing but headaches in the past 12 hours. I can't play CS and I can't watch any videos for a prolonged period of time and I had to turn off all my sound associations and got rid of my desktop. I have removed all previous drivers of my previous vid card and i installed detonator 12.90 drivers along with bios version 1003. I've changed bios settings to AGP 1X and no fast write. This is such a headache, why does my computer freeze when I try to press the start button or try to right click with my mouse button or click on any menu for that matter? It has gone away since I removed sound associations for the time being but I still can't play CS, I'm gonna try watching another video next and see if it freezes again. Someone help me out, this is so frustrating!
 
Sounds like it might be an IRQ/resource conflict. Are you in Windows 2000? If so, try disabling ACPI (make your computer "Standard PC" in Device Manager)
 
I'm using win98se and there is no resource conflict, the only other thing its sharing its irq with is the PCI steering and that's normal from what i read.
 
Do you think it is because of the power supply? I do have a 250 watt power supply and I read everywhere that it should be okay, I've tried unplugging a lot of my cd drives as well right now, I think I might have to get a new tower and ps but any other suggestions?
 
Since it seems to be sound related, make sure your sound card is in a slot that does not share an irq with USB. If I recall correctly that would be slot 3 or 4. Check the manual to be sure as I'm working from memory here. This is real important if using a SBLive and USB mouse. Set bios AGP to 2X. Reinstall the VIA agp driver. Try standard mode first. Go to AGP 4x in bios and VIA AGP in turbo mode after things stabilize. The P3V4X had issues with some geforce2 cards. It simply would not boot with some installed. There is a wire trick to fix it but soldering is required. If you need the link PM me.
 
First off you need to flash the BIOS. The latest version is 1005. Next you need to download the Via 4in1 4.33 drivers which were released a week or so ago.

The P3V4X has a crappy AGP implementation and AGP issues are one of the main problems with this board. Do a search in the forums. You cannot use fast writes on this board nor AGP4X. I have tried it with both a GF3 and GF2 GTS. No luck regardless how much I fiddle with the BIOS setttings.

Update the two things I mentioned and smack it on AGP2X. AGP4X gains are a frame or two. Nothing to write home about. Disable fast writes and drop the buffer to 64MB. It should work fine.

I would also download the Nvidia 21.81 drivers from the Nvidia site. They will give you a 10-20% performance increase.
 
Plus, there was one AGP driver set that was released soon after the original drivers for the P3V4X which gave crappy 3D frame rates. If you have the latest VIA 4in1 drivers, you will be ok probably. The P3V4X was one of the fastest mobo's when it came out in the VIA133A chipset class... competed well against the Intel BX and 815 chipsets. If I were to buy a new mobo for the PIII platform, it would probably be the ASUS TUSL4 based on the Tulatin capable 815 chipset.
 
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