Voodoo 5 keep locking up in windows 2000 under unreal tournament

[Chromeus]

I just got a uumm used voodoo5 and before i had a voodoo3 , did a fresh install of windows 2000 and its works great in tribes and other games ,but freezes the system everytime in unreal tournament !!
Even in the server refresh screen ,I had this problem before and i found out one of the fans on the voodoo 5 stoped spinning I flicked with my finger and its spinning fine now , but ut is starting to lockup th whole system again (sigh) and i looked everywhere in event viewer and nothing shows up ,:|
its does seem like heat would be the problem but i dont know for sure , I can play tribes for 6 hours straight with 4x FSAA on and it never ever freezes , i turn off FSAA when playing ut but it still locks up I check my bios and turned off 4x agp still froze, changed the apiture size still froze
turned on 4x agp again still froze opened case still froze I have all shadowing turned off and its still freezes I has the lastest drivers and it locks (I am going crazy and miss my voodoo3 ) I dont think its my system
I have a kt7 pro2-a (anandtech review) and a sound blaster live
along with an amd t-bird 950 (big cooling fan ) and three more 80mm cooling fans in the case (q500)
please help if you can

 

[Chromeus]

hmm does anyone answer these things

 

[Wingznut]

""hmm does anyone answer these things"

Dude, relax. It was only eight minutes between your posts.

Anyway, do you have either the cpu or V5 overclocked? Even though it runs fine with Tribes, it might not with UT. If you are overclocking, first step is to clock back down, and see if the lockups go away.

 

[Chromeus]

LOL i know it wa only 8 mins But i had posted before several times before and never got a response
weeks ago oh and no over clocking here i run everything at default Doh!

 

[velferdskiller]

What is your i/o voltage at, and does the Voodoo5 have its own power connection? That it doesnt share a powercable with i.e. a harddrive?
Are you using latest via drivers? What power is your PSU rated at?
It has got nothing to do with agp aperture size etc etc, since the voodoos dont use it anyways. Shadowing wont make a dramatic increase/decrease in any ways.
Good luck

 

[Magikal]

Do you run Zone Alarm? Because if you do it will crash UT and QUake3 and Half-life under win2k.

If you are using it turn it off before you play. *note: this only effects multiplayer and lan games not single player in UT it will crash as soon as you load up the server refresh screen. It will however kill Quake3 as soon as you load it up.

If you are not using ZA or do have it off than maybe the card is bad. It is used and some one may have oced it before. I know that with stock cooling on the v5 it oces vary poorly (at least in my system). You probably have a messed up vid card.

 

[Chromeus]

no zone alarm ,and the person who owned it before me never overclocked it (didnt even play games with it) and it does have it own power connector ,the power supply is a 300 watt sparkle
and everthing else checks out I switched it with my brothers v5 and it never locked
but mine does for some reason

 

[Magikal]

Have you tried reinastalling direct x? Also try different drivers. I am using the latest off of the web page and Direct x 8. I had to totally uninstall dx than do a fresh reistall of dx8 to get rid of some problems that I ws having. (nothing as serious as lock-ups though but it is well worth a shot.

 

[badguy]

Have you tried it in Win98?

 

[Chromeus]

uuuuugghh i dont think i could ever go back to 98
but i tried something else and it works ..... I turned the settings to single processor only and ut never crashed but if i set it to both ie fastest performance than ut crashes right away but tribes still playes fine on both ??

 

[velferdskiller]

Maybe one of the heatsinks on the v5 is not seated properly on the chip. Since the other v5 works, it cant really have anything to do with software.
I would take off the heatsinks, and put on some thermal epoxy. Not the horrible styff that is there from before.