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Started by Kev Cross
Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00
GeForce Temporary Freezes in NT 4
Author: Kev Cross
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00
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I am having a lot of trouble with my Creative Labs Annihilator Pro GeForce DDR Graphics card. The card installed flawlessly into the PC and has continued to run in 2D perfectly. The problems I am seeing seem to be in Open GL and is visible when playing games such as Quake 2, Half Life and Unreal Tournament. Believe it or not, Q3A runs flawlessly, even with dual cpu support enabled. When running these games, the card works fine initially, but after a period of time, the game suddenly freezes. This freeze lasts for about 10 seconds and then the game continues to run normally. While frozen, it would appear that the whole CPU is frozen since nothing happens gamewise in the background - I return to the same spot I was in before the freeze. The freezes continue occuring and seem to get faster and faster as time progresses. I read a lot of Deja News posts and a lot of fingers pointed at the Power Supply and hence I increased this to a 300W unit. Believe it or not, this fixed the problem with Quake 2, but none of the other games. All fingers therefore still point to a power supply, or an overheating problem. I have tried direct cooling the unit with an external fan and the case off and this didnt seem to make it any better so I'll assume this is not the problem. Does anyone else have any ideas what else it could be, or suggestions for what to do to fix it? The system has the following spec: Soyo (6IBA+III) Dual Slot 1 Mobo Dual Genuine P3 500 2 x 128MB PC100 Cube Branded RAM Soudblaster 128 PCI Soundcard D-Link 10/100Mb NIC Eicon Diva PCI ISDN Card I am running the system on Win NT 4 running SP6a and all the latest drivers for the cards (I have flashed the Mobo BIOS as well). I have tried several versions of both the Creative and nVidia drivers for the GeForce, but all exhibit the same problem. Help, please, someone - the card is superb when it runs, but freezing mid-frag session online is a real headache and is badly affecting my clan performance ;-) TIA Kev aka [DP] Davross
Re: GeForce Temporary Freezes in NT 4
Author: Will Matthews
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:00
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I seen this before under NT (maybe ;-) Check for hardware conflicts! I saw it once (on a network card) everything seemed to be fine then it would drop the connection! after about 10 seconds. Just a thought! /Will Kev Cross <kev@davross.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:954257498.21280.0.nnrp-06.c1edc1d0@news.demon.co.uk... > I am having a lot of trouble with my Creative Labs Annihilator Pro GeForce > DDR Graphics card. The card installed flawlessly into the PC and has > continued to run in 2D perfectly. > > The problems I am seeing seem to be in Open GL and is visible when playing > games such as Quake 2, Half Life and Unreal Tournament. Believe it or not, > Q3A runs flawlessly, even with dual cpu support enabled. > > When running these games, the card works fine initially, but after a period > of time, the game suddenly freezes. This freeze lasts for about 10 seconds > and then the game continues to run normally. While frozen, it would appear > that the whole CPU is frozen since nothing happens gamewise in the > background - I return to the same spot I was in before the freeze. The > freezes continue occuring and seem to get faster and faster as time > progresses. > > I read a lot of Deja News posts and a lot of fingers pointed at the Power > Supply and hence I increased this to a 300W unit. Believe it or not, this > fixed the problem with Quake 2, but none of the other games. > > All fingers therefore still point to a power supply, or an overheating > problem. I have tried direct cooling the unit with an external fan and the > case off and this didnt seem to make it any better so I'll assume this is > not the problem. > > Does anyone else have any ideas what else it could be, or suggestions for > what to do to fix it? > > The system has the following spec: > Soyo (6IBA+III) Dual Slot 1 Mobo > Dual Genuine P3 500 > 2 x 128MB PC100 Cube Branded RAM > Soudblaster 128 PCI Soundcard > D-Link 10/100Mb NIC > Eicon Diva PCI ISDN Card > > I am running the system on Win NT 4 running SP6a and all the latest drivers > for the cards (I have flashed the Mobo BIOS as well). I have tried several > versions of both the Creative and nVidia drivers for the GeForce, but all > exhibit the same problem. > > Help, please, someone - the card is superb when it runs, but freezing > mid-frag session online is a real headache and is badly affecting my clan > performance ;-) > > TIA > Kev aka [DP] Davross > > >
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