I have this really ridiculous problem with my hardware...wait till you read it for a good laugh:
my system is a Thunderbird 700@858 Mhz on an Asus A7V motherboard a GeForce Sdr video card and Win98 SE.
Now overclocking my cpu to 850 and 860 went very well,no glitches,3dMark 2000 is very stable it
doesn't crash nor do any other testing programs witch use the cpu extensively do and the temperature
remained normal.However when I entered the game NFS PU(I don't have Quake 3 or UT so I used this for testing...) it would crash very soon.
Same with Grand Prix 3,another car-game who uses alot of processing power.Now those 2 would crash
when the cpu was at 700 too,but only occasionally,whilst at 860 they would crash almost instantly,
need for speed at least.So after reinstalling the via 4in1 drivers,after even replacing my geforce with a voodoo3
for tests and changing all the settings I could,it hit me:those games were all played with my steering
Guillemot Ferrari Force Feedback Racing Wheel..so I tried playing them without the steering wheel
and guess what?no crashes whatsoever,they ran very smooth.Now how can this freak thing be?A steering
wheel who hates overclocking(quite a personality 😉).I tried using the ol drivers for it and no change
at all...The steering wheel is on an usb port...but my overclocking was done entirely by the multiplier
of my cpu not by increasing the fsb(another question is why I can't overclock it,I only increased it
to 101 from 100,anything more than 101 Mhz would mean no boot-up of either the system or windows)
Thanks for your patience,any advice would be apreciated,I wouldn't want to change all the voltage and dip-switches to boot at 700 Mhz each time I want to play car games...
my system is a Thunderbird 700@858 Mhz on an Asus A7V motherboard a GeForce Sdr video card and Win98 SE.
Now overclocking my cpu to 850 and 860 went very well,no glitches,3dMark 2000 is very stable it
doesn't crash nor do any other testing programs witch use the cpu extensively do and the temperature
remained normal.However when I entered the game NFS PU(I don't have Quake 3 or UT so I used this for testing...) it would crash very soon.
Same with Grand Prix 3,another car-game who uses alot of processing power.Now those 2 would crash
when the cpu was at 700 too,but only occasionally,whilst at 860 they would crash almost instantly,
need for speed at least.So after reinstalling the via 4in1 drivers,after even replacing my geforce with a voodoo3
for tests and changing all the settings I could,it hit me:those games were all played with my steering
Guillemot Ferrari Force Feedback Racing Wheel..so I tried playing them without the steering wheel
and guess what?no crashes whatsoever,they ran very smooth.Now how can this freak thing be?A steering
wheel who hates overclocking(quite a personality 😉).I tried using the ol drivers for it and no change
at all...The steering wheel is on an usb port...but my overclocking was done entirely by the multiplier
of my cpu not by increasing the fsb(another question is why I can't overclock it,I only increased it
to 101 from 100,anything more than 101 Mhz would mean no boot-up of either the system or windows)
Thanks for your patience,any advice would be apreciated,I wouldn't want to change all the voltage and dip-switches to boot at 700 Mhz each time I want to play car games...
