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VIA and athlon HEEEELP!

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erlangwho

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I had been hearing so many good things about AMDs new athlons, so I decided to take the plunge and go with amd on this upgrade. In fact, I took a friend with me. I bout 2 amd 1.2ghz (266fsb) and I got an asus a7v133 while my friend got an FIC az11ea. Both boards have the via chipset on them. On mine, the first thing I did was upgrade the bios to version 1005A, then I installed win2k and then the 4in1 drivers from viahardware.com (v432). Next I installed the latest nvidia drivers for my geforce ddr. In doing this I could not play quake2 at all, in fact after launching quake2 my computer would lock up. After hours of testing diff configs, I found that the thing that was making my computer lock during quake2 was the IDE controller or PCI (I dont remember the exact name of the drivers) part of the 4in1 drivers. The weird thing is, quake3 would run with no apparent problems. Ok, well dont install just that part I thought, well, while the agp 4x drivers for the chipset boost my opengl performance significantly, after running multiple timedemos or even just running quake2 for a few minutes causes my computer to simply reboot on its own. Similar things happened on the FIC board. I could install every component of the 4in1 drivers and quake2 would still run, but it would cause the computer to reboot after running the game very long. The same thing happens with quake3. The video card on this computer is a geforce2 mx. On top of all of this, when I tried to install win2k I would get a blue screen every time. I ended up removing all the pci devices, installing windows98, and then installing the nic and sblive in afterwards. Can ANYONE help at all??? I am getting desparate here.
 
I can't really help you here but being at the top of the queue can't hurt.

BTW, did you try installing an older version of the 4in1s? I'd step back a few versions and retest to at least eliminate or confirm that the 4.32s are the problem.
 
yes I did, in fact, I tried uninstalling and then installing earlier versions, as well as formatting, and starting with fresh install of older drivers first. Tried more than one of the older drivers, even tried different video drivers.
 
Try disabling fastwrites in the bios for your video. Normally if that is the case the comp just locks but I was having similar problems with games. I disable the fastwrites and it "cured" the prob
 
You should go to Windows Update and install Service Pack 2 and the Windows 2000 compatibility update. Without those, many games will run for awhile and then lock up.
 
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