Good Morning,
I have a Thunder K7, running Dual 1.2gig Athlon MP processors. 256 megs of Kingston memory (K4H280438B-TCB0), Bios Rev. 2.10, and 2 ATA100 Western Digital Hard drives. I am running the system with SCSI disabled, the on board NICs disabled, and the on board Video disabled.
I am not running any additional controller cards. I am using a Muse sound card, and a Realtek ethernet adapter.
My operating system is Windows XP professional. I have installed all critical updates to March 3, 2002.
My issue is with my video.
I am presently running a Radeon 8500 64megs DDR. I am running driver version 6.13.3276.
Issue: I am only able to run 2D applications. I can run any applictions that run in 2D mode without issue. The system fully recognizes the card and installs it correctly. No errors are present upon installation, and the event viewer is also error free. Upon running any 3D application (C&C Renegade, Wolfenstien, etc.), however, the system will run the application for a few minutes, and then completely reboot the system. The system then posts, loads back into WindowsXP, and runs 2D applications fine. However, the system reboots every time I attempt to run a 3D app. There is not a definate time that it reboots in. Somtimes it will run up to 20 minutes, sometimes it only runs 2 minutes.
I have formatted the system and reinstalled from scratch. I have also put Linux, and Windows 2000 on the system. I have had the same issues.
I attempted to swap the video cards. I have a second Radeon 8500, a Radeon 64 DDR VIVO, and a GeForce 2 Ultra. All of the cards did the exact same thing. Each card works fine in whatever OS, but crashes on the 3D applications. I have removed all of the PCI cards, reset the BIOS to its defaults, and reinstalled. I get the same issue. Each of the four cards that I have work fine in other systems. I attempted switching sockets for the DRam, and I have also attempted to run the system in single processor mode. None of which helped.
The oddity: I have a Trident Blade3D video card. I am able to run 2D with this card. I am also able to successfully load and run 3D applications with this card. However, they perform exceedingly badly (blotchy screen, etc.), even for a Blade3D with only 8 megs of memory on the card.
Each of the 4 cards I mentioned earlier have at least 64 megs of memory on board. The Radeon cards are DDR.
Please tell me what I can do to fix this annoying issue!!!??????
I did notice there are some new switches in regards to Video in the new 2.10 bios. Would any of these assist me?
Thank you,
Shawn.Riley@semnetwork.com
I have a Thunder K7, running Dual 1.2gig Athlon MP processors. 256 megs of Kingston memory (K4H280438B-TCB0), Bios Rev. 2.10, and 2 ATA100 Western Digital Hard drives. I am running the system with SCSI disabled, the on board NICs disabled, and the on board Video disabled.
I am not running any additional controller cards. I am using a Muse sound card, and a Realtek ethernet adapter.
My operating system is Windows XP professional. I have installed all critical updates to March 3, 2002.
My issue is with my video.
I am presently running a Radeon 8500 64megs DDR. I am running driver version 6.13.3276.
Issue: I am only able to run 2D applications. I can run any applictions that run in 2D mode without issue. The system fully recognizes the card and installs it correctly. No errors are present upon installation, and the event viewer is also error free. Upon running any 3D application (C&C Renegade, Wolfenstien, etc.), however, the system will run the application for a few minutes, and then completely reboot the system. The system then posts, loads back into WindowsXP, and runs 2D applications fine. However, the system reboots every time I attempt to run a 3D app. There is not a definate time that it reboots in. Somtimes it will run up to 20 minutes, sometimes it only runs 2 minutes.
I have formatted the system and reinstalled from scratch. I have also put Linux, and Windows 2000 on the system. I have had the same issues.
I attempted to swap the video cards. I have a second Radeon 8500, a Radeon 64 DDR VIVO, and a GeForce 2 Ultra. All of the cards did the exact same thing. Each card works fine in whatever OS, but crashes on the 3D applications. I have removed all of the PCI cards, reset the BIOS to its defaults, and reinstalled. I get the same issue. Each of the four cards that I have work fine in other systems. I attempted switching sockets for the DRam, and I have also attempted to run the system in single processor mode. None of which helped.
The oddity: I have a Trident Blade3D video card. I am able to run 2D with this card. I am also able to successfully load and run 3D applications with this card. However, they perform exceedingly badly (blotchy screen, etc.), even for a Blade3D with only 8 megs of memory on the card.
Each of the 4 cards I mentioned earlier have at least 64 megs of memory on board. The Radeon cards are DDR.
Please tell me what I can do to fix this annoying issue!!!??????
I did notice there are some new switches in regards to Video in the new 2.10 bios. Would any of these assist me?
Thank you,
Shawn.Riley@semnetwork.com
