Hi, I was just barely looking for a forum to post my problem in and everyone here seems to have a lot of experince with hardware so here is my problem. I have an NEC computer, it has an AMD K6-2 450mhz proccesor, 256mb of sdram, a 13gb hard drive, LAN, Modem, and an onboard 8mb of video. The problem is with my video. I put a new video card in my computer (it is a Diamond Stealth 3 s540 with 32mb of memory.) It is a PCI video card because my computer does not have an AGP slot. I installed the card in one of my PCI slots and then turned my computer on. As it booted up I went into the BIOS and changed the configuration of the video to run through the PCI instead of my normal onboard one. Then it finished booting up. I installed all the drivers and then went into my system configuration in the control panel and disabled the onboard video and my card seemed to work fine. Then i began to play a game I had on there previously called Half life: CounterStrike . It worked for about 10min then just completley froze, nothing would respond so i restarted my comp. It kept doing it at random times between about 1min - 30min time. So i decided to try some other 3d games. I then loaded on Motocross madness 1. I can play that game fine and it has good fps and good graphics also. Then i loaded on Motocross madness 2 and played it for about the same amount of time as counterstrike, and it froze up too. I know that all three games use direct 3d, but what confused me was that motocross madness 1 didnt freeze up ever and it still doesnt. There! Confusing enough? Well if you have any suggestions or help to give me i would be very thankful.
Thanks,
Joe
Thanks,
Joe
A K6-2 450 would still benefit greatly from GF2MX, GF4MX420 or Rad7500 all of which are much faster and stable than a Diamond Stealth 3 s540.
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