Video card problem

[morkinva]

I've tried to upgrade a video card to a Viper II Z200 card, but I keep getting random lockups which require a hard reboot. After several tries it was able to get throught the dxdiag tool without incident - but then I put it to a video test that made it lock up again. When it locks up its not from playing games, just stuff like opening outlook express.

I tried different drivers from Diamond, removed the modem in the slot next to the agp slot, all to no avail.

The card was delivered to me in a box that had a big gash in it; could an impact have affected this card? Could it be a power deficiency problem?

The setup is:

EFA motherboard ZX chipset E6ZX-AT
win98se
directx 8.1
sis 6326 4meg agp video (the old card that performed rock solid)
sblive
aopen fm-56 modem
pinnacle studio pctv
pixie 770c monitor
logitech cordless mouse usb
usb hub

Thanks for any input

 

[redbeard1]

Savage based video cards had a lot of issues when it came to gaming, though I'm not sure about how they were in normal 2D use.

Something I have run into before, is that some remants of old video card drivers, goof up the new card. One system I had to wipe and reload, because I couldn't get it to play certain games. Then it worked.

 

[morkinva]

Thanks for your response.

I formatted my c drive and reinstalled windows with the viper card. Then I installed the viper driver along with directx 7. It passed the dxdiag test.

After that I tried to install the sblive drivers, and it locked up like before. After a hard boot, I tried to install the modem drivers and it locked up. The card is not getting very hot when it locks up.

 

[TheCorm]

Are you installing the latest drivers? Does the Viper graphics installation install any extra software that might be causing issues? Are there not DirectX 8 compatible drivers that you can install?

How about leaving it installed as Standard PCI Graphics Card, installing other devices and installing the graphics card last?

Corm

 

[morkinva]

Thanks for your help. I'm currently using an old driver for win95 from this page that seems very stable. The only thing wrong that I can see is that it won't play realvideo at full screen, but it can play windows media at full screen.