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Your friends might have had the 1st generation athlon mobo chipset, the
Irongate.
Irongate chipsets are nice, but you must limit your AGP bus to 1x....
otherwise lock-ups are very common.

The new Via Apollo chipset mobo's for the athlon are they way to go.  I have
the Epox Kx7a and it works wonders on my eyes, plus i can use 4x AGP and AGP
Fast Writes.

GauntMan <illmound@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8cas6t$2as4$3@news.itv.se...
> According to my info there is a problem with TNT, TNT2 and GeForce
combined
> with the chipset for AMD�s. Several of my friends have had problems with
> their TNT/GF and they have AMD (Athlon, K6-2 etc) but when we try their
> cards in my PII450 they work fine for days in an row. Some of them have
> solved the problems by upgrading their motherboard bios but some didn�t.
it
> also seems that Voodoo2 and 3 have problems with AMD but everyone got
Matrox
> G400-cards to work. try your card on a PII PIII or Celeron. If it works
then
> it�s probably the chipset, sorry.
>
> Good luck
>
> /GM
>
>
>

According to my info there is a problem with TNT, TNT2 and GeForce combined
with the chipset for AMD�s. Several of my friends have had problems with
their TNT/GF and they have AMD (Athlon, K6-2 etc) but when we try their
cards in my PII450 they work fine for days in an row. Some of them have
solved the problems by upgrading their motherboard bios but some didn�t. it
also seems that Voodoo2 and 3 have problems with AMD but everyone got Matrox
G400-cards to work. try your card on a PII PIII or Celeron. If it works then
it�s probably the chipset, sorry.

Good luck

/GM

Thanks man, ive been having a few lockups... but not enuff to piss me off.
Im going to try that out and see if it cures my prob


Rob <wolf420@home.com> wrote in message news:38E8E44F.274ADC50@home.com...
> Hey,
>
> I managed to finally figure out how to get rid of the lock
> up problems I was having with my GeForce DDR.
> Here's my specs
>
> Enlight case, 300W sparkle power
> Athlon 600
> Epox 7KXA KX133 mobo
> Creative Annihilator Pro DDR GeForce
> 128 megs micron
> 13.2 gig Maxtor
> 32x panasonic cdrom
>
> I used the config. guide for the Epox mobo that is located at
> amdzone.com and some of the settings weren't quite right.
> The main cause of the lockups in my case was a setting in
> Advanced Chipset features in BIOS called
> Fast R/W turn around, when I disabled this feature the system became a
> lot more stable and did away with the lockups 90% of the time.  I still
> have some more tweaking to do though.
> I have also changed the AGP aperture setting to  64meg and this seems to
> add a little more stability, although it noticeably degrades performance
> . . .
> I'll take stability over performance if I have to though.
> It's amazing to me that Creative/Nvidia can produce a
> graphics card that costs  $275 and have so many issues  with
> stability on different systems.
>
> Hope this  helps somebody.
> L8tr,
> Rob
>
>

I think the more complicated it is the more it has a chance to fail.
Simple 2d, 8meg video cards run with no problems because of their
simplicity.


Rob <wolf420@home.com> wrote in message news:38E8E44F.274ADC50@home.com...
> Hey,
>
> I managed to finally figure out how to get rid of the lock
> up problems I was having with my GeForce DDR.
> Here's my specs
>
> Enlight case, 300W sparkle power
> Athlon 600
> Epox 7KXA KX133 mobo
> Creative Annihilator Pro DDR GeForce
> 128 megs micron
> 13.2 gig Maxtor
> 32x panasonic cdrom
>
> I used the config. guide for the Epox mobo that is located at
> amdzone.com and some of the settings weren't quite right.
> The main cause of the lockups in my case was a setting in
> Advanced Chipset features in BIOS called
> Fast R/W turn around, when I disabled this feature the system became a
> lot more stable and did away with the lockups 90% of the time.  I still
> have some more tweaking to do though.
> I have also changed the AGP aperture setting to  64meg and this seems to
> add a little more stability, although it noticeably degrades performance
> . . .
> I'll take stability over performance if I have to though.
> It's amazing to me that Creative/Nvidia can produce a
> graphics card that costs  $275 and have so many issues  with
> stability on different systems.
>
> Hope this  helps somebody.
> L8tr,
> Rob
>
>