Severe sound artifacts since installing GF2 MX card...

[madhazerad]

Im a newbie to the forum, thanks in advance...
I have a FIC 503+ MB (pcb 1.1a) running a k63-400, 2*128m of pc100 DIMM, a SoundBlaster Live Value and Diamond Viper770 (TNT2 chip). Recently I purchased a Hercules ProphetII (GForce2 MX)and started having trouble with 'noise' running D3D games, specifically SystemShockII and UnrealTournament. SSII 'crackles' and Unreal is almost unplayable with very heavy 'scratching' (its a little hard to descibe, almost like a high frequency pinging noise). Ive gone through the drivers and have fixed nothing. Im not a novice and I realize that there are alot of possible causes, including hardware issues that I have not yet ruled out (swapping the sound card comes to mind). My question would be: has anyone had trouble with AGP support on this PCB? I seem to recall some issues with FICs implementation of the AGP port on older MBs, could the 4x capacity of the card be causing a freakout? I am currently running the card at 2x, the max allowed on the MB. My Viper770 worked flawlessly. Any feedback? Thanks

 

[LuciferHaze]

Your K6-3 is the bottleneck in your system. You MUST upgrade to an ABIT-KT7A and an ATHLON 1.3Ghz. This'll solve yer problems.😀

 

[madhazerad]

Thanks for the input, spot me the 300bucks and I will be good to go 😀
Actually I bought the G2 MX BECAUSE I have a slower system. It seemed like a good 'halfgrade' since I didnt want to go balls to the wall with a total PC conversion right now. Actually there is a HUGE FAQ regarding GF2 issues that cover SS7/MVP3/AGP1.0 issues so I will be trying some of the solutions found there first (http://www.geforcefaq.com/#hw:gef:troub:mbc:ss7 )

Thanks for the post Luc, I dont want you to think Im dissin ya. I will post a solution if I find one.

 

[madhazerad]

PS- By the way, the Abit KT7a-Raid was on my VERY short list when I was entertaining a socketA upgrade, so nice call on that ;D