I have no idea what the problem is, i've tried all sorts of proccesses of elimination using more than 2 different systems, mixing & matching etc.... still no solution.
The problem? Constant lockups in 3D games. All sorts of games... I'll be playing away happilly, proud of my newly purchased hardware, then all of a sudden it's game over. The system just locks up, most of the time the sound keeps going to a certain point, but the graphic side of things comes to a halt. Very rarely a game will dump me back to the desktop, but 98% of the time it's reboot or nothing.
As mentioned earlier, I've tried all sorts of combinations, trying to pinpoint a suspect piece of hardware, but nothing yet suggests that any of my parts are faulty (except maybe motherboard/cpu i guess) but one thing I have noticed just recently is that it only seems to happen to games running in D3D... OpenGL games run fine, for as long as I leave them running, same goes for software mode, not that I consider that to be a worthy solution =).
I did have some issues recently with some conflicting AGP drivers and the VIA drivers I had loaded at the time, but that was somewhat fixed by new VIA drivers and loading the correct AGP driver... However I'm thinking something still aint right.
Any ideas?
Current system specs:
Abit KT7 m/b
Athlon (tbird) 800
asus v7100 Geforce2 MX
SBlive value
Quantumn fireball LM 20.5 gig
128 meg pc133
western digital 20 gig
It's a very frustrating problem, because when the games run, they run fine, better than anything any of my previous pc's have shown... but then they just stop. My thoughts are that if it was a hardware issue, they just wouldn't run at all... or run well at least.
Any help offered will be GREATLY appreciated...
The problem? Constant lockups in 3D games. All sorts of games... I'll be playing away happilly, proud of my newly purchased hardware, then all of a sudden it's game over. The system just locks up, most of the time the sound keeps going to a certain point, but the graphic side of things comes to a halt. Very rarely a game will dump me back to the desktop, but 98% of the time it's reboot or nothing.
As mentioned earlier, I've tried all sorts of combinations, trying to pinpoint a suspect piece of hardware, but nothing yet suggests that any of my parts are faulty (except maybe motherboard/cpu i guess) but one thing I have noticed just recently is that it only seems to happen to games running in D3D... OpenGL games run fine, for as long as I leave them running, same goes for software mode, not that I consider that to be a worthy solution =).
I did have some issues recently with some conflicting AGP drivers and the VIA drivers I had loaded at the time, but that was somewhat fixed by new VIA drivers and loading the correct AGP driver... However I'm thinking something still aint right.
Any ideas?
Current system specs:
Abit KT7 m/b
Athlon (tbird) 800
asus v7100 Geforce2 MX
SBlive value
Quantumn fireball LM 20.5 gig
128 meg pc133
western digital 20 gig
It's a very frustrating problem, because when the games run, they run fine, better than anything any of my previous pc's have shown... but then they just stop. My thoughts are that if it was a hardware issue, they just wouldn't run at all... or run well at least.
Any help offered will be GREATLY appreciated...
No offense.
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