Re: Is this a Voodoo2 hardware problem?

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From: Mark Powell
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 00:00

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In article <36EC36F0.21DCDE12@bigfoot.com>,
Markus Braun  <mbraun@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>For Quake2 :
>Did you install the newest Minidriver from 3dfx (get version 1.46 or
>higher)?
>Halflife :
>Which version of the minidriver did you use ?
>
>Better get the whole package from 3Dfx (250kB) it contains all drivers for
>all of the openGL games.
>
>When did DXdiag hang ?

I think after some experimentation it's directly related to heat. I 
hadn't over clocked the card, apart from what the Diamond drivers
had done, by running it at 92MHz. If I slow the card down to 86MHz,
it works flawlessly all the time. However, shouldn't a card work at
this speed, as it's Diamond's default? I'm running in a full tower
case with the cover off, so it's not hot at all in there. Of course
the V2 chips get so hot you can only touch them briefly when a 3D
game has been running for a while.
  The card should run okay at 92MHz though?

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From: mark@salfrd.ac.uk (Mark Powell)
Subject: Re: Is this a Voodoo2 hardware problem?
Date: 1999/03/16
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