GeForce 2 MX400 64meg Viv Card Problems

Hey there people.

I have an Athlon 1.2 with a Gigabyte 7zxm Mobo. Over 700 meg ram and have just intsalled a Geforce2 MX400 64 Meg Video Card.

When I play CS I contsantly have problems with the machine locking up. I hve downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia Drivers but it still does it.

I have also installed the latest copy of Direct X.

When it locks up the puter it goes into a continuos sound loop. I cannot reboot the machine by using the old 3 finger salute nor can I just hit the escape key.

I have to reboot from the button on the tower.

I have also spoken to another gamer with the same card installed and he too has the same problem.

Whilst at the EVO lan my machine locked up that many times it gave me the #$((@@@. So if you are able to shed any light on this problem I would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Hopefully you'll find something here to help.

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Dean, had the same problem myself, but only under winXP, try 2k, just dont install the service packs or it willl do it as well :-)

I get the same under win2k and XP.....always have...

Managed to get it a bit more stable under 2k...

XP will sometimes recover by 3 finger salute

I think its a combination of vid(nvidia)/sound(live)/motherboard driver issue and the HL engine

most stable for me with win2k SP2, latest soundblaster live drivers and 21.85 Detonators

make sure motherboard BIOS is latest and running latest chipset drivers (4in1 VIA or Intel)

mmm Okay peeps am gonna check all the drivers again and see how e go. Ta for the help.

2 issues here I know of..

1/. Sblive and Via chipsets lockup. I dont have any great details on this, but it seems to be well known amongst some circles..

2/. Win2K/XP and Athlons, page problems.. I know of this one and there is a patch for it on AMDs site.

Spongemeister, we all suffer from it. I have Athlon, SbLive, Via chipset, Win2K.....

I often get lockups. [Blocked image]

I tried what was suggested in the link up the top...

Spent 2 hours changing XP so it didn't use ACPI anymore....went into my BIOS and manually assigned IRQs to various slots and _eventually_ got my SBlive on an IRQ all by itself.

Quite cuffed at my achievement I jumped into a game and 5 mins later fire..fire..fire...fire..fire....fire....fire

3 Fiinger salute...

Only improvement so far is tha about 3 out of 5 times now the 3 finger salute will recover and I can end the HL.exe process rather than every lock requiring a Hard reset.

Using Latest creative driver (CS voice works now)
Detonato 23.11 (tried 21.81s and 21.85s - no diff)
Intel chipset drivers not currently upgradeable under XP

The only other thing that I know of is that have you tried reinstalling Half-Life and then tried???
Cos that doesnt work, what you need to do is go through the regedit and find anything that had to do with Half-Life (after unistalling it) and delete it all.

If you dont know what to look for when deleteing stuff in regedit for Half-Life then you shouldnt bother trying otherwise you might have to REFORMAT [Blocked image]

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Sly_Fox:
Spongemeister, we all suffer from it. I have Athlon, SbLive, Via chipset, Win2K.....

I often get lockups. [Blocked image] <hr></blockquote>

I had the same configuration and had lockups too for a while, but it somehow fixed itself (Iam sorry I don't remember how/why... I'll let ya know if it comes back to me). I now have an Ali-Magic chipset an its been sweet [Blocked image]

mmm Dont a full reinstall of Half Life and CS on different drive. Problem still persists. Gonna uninstall Nortons Antivirus then see how we go

Thanx people

Sponge,

try the detonator 22.50 nvidia drivers.

they fixed all my problems.

if you need to get them I have them on my ftp

raker.homeip.net

if you want icq me 123450827 and Ill setup an account so you can access it.

Also there are lots of other progs that may help you there too.

Lots of key gens and patches.

Let me know.