Help Pleeeeze!

[Jack]

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Decided to treat myself to a top range system. But only one small and
annoying snag 🙁
It will run a 3D screensaver for about 1-2 minutes before freezing
solid! It does not freeze in normal operation.

The system is:-

MSI K7N2 Delta - ILSR Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP3200+ and AMD Fan (Retail Pack)
2 GB DDR Ram
2 x Serial ATA Hard Drives
GeForce FX5600 XT 256MB Graphics Card

Running XP Pro
Service Pack 1
DX 9.0
Updated Drivers for GeForce

Got a vague idea it might be graphics related but can't figure it out.
Just wondered what you clever guys thought.

TIA Jack

 

[Guest]

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"jack" <jack123@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Decided to treat myself to a top range system. But only one small and
> annoying snag 🙁
> It will run a 3D screensaver for about 1-2 minutes before freezing
> solid! It does not freeze in normal operation.
>
> The system is:-
>
> MSI K7N2 Delta - ILSR Motherboard
> AMD Athlon XP3200+ and AMD Fan (Retail Pack)
> 2 GB DDR Ram
> 2 x Serial ATA Hard Drives
> GeForce FX5600 XT 256MB Graphics Card
>
> Running XP Pro
> Service Pack 1
> DX 9.0
> Updated Drivers for GeForce
>
> Got a vague idea it might be graphics related but can't figure it out.
Check your BIOS Sleep time out. Sometimes that will fight with the screen
saver.

 

[jad]

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DirectX version up to date?


"jack" <jack123@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:brl070lsqkin7gd44cusltegbrnuc3r2b5@4ax.com...
> Decided to treat myself to a top range system. But only one small
and
> annoying snag 🙁
> It will run a 3D screensaver for about 1-2 minutes before freezing
> solid! It does not freeze in normal operation.
>
> The system is:-
>
> MSI K7N2 Delta - ILSR Motherboard
> AMD Athlon XP3200+ and AMD Fan (Retail Pack)
> 2 GB DDR Ram
> 2 x Serial ATA Hard Drives
> GeForce FX5600 XT 256MB Graphics Card
>
> Running XP Pro
> Service Pack 1
> DX 9.0
> Updated Drivers for GeForce
>
> Got a vague idea it might be graphics related but can't figure it
out.
> Just wondered what you clever guys thought.
>
> TIA Jack

 

[Jack]

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On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 18:47:58 GMT, "William W. Plummer"
<William.PlummerXNOSPAMX@alum.mit.edu> wrote:


>Check your BIOS Sleep time out. Sometimes that will fight with the screen
>saver.
>
Where exactly is the 'Bios Sleep Time Out' and what should it be set
to?

 

[Guest]

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"jack" <jack123@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 18:47:58 GMT, "William W. Plummer"
> <William.PlummerXNOSPAMX@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>
> >Check your BIOS Sleep time out. Sometimes that will fight with the
screen
> >saver.
> >
> Where exactly is the 'Bios Sleep Time Out' and what should it be set
> to?

Sorry, but I don't want to shoot down my system to look for this. Poke
around for words like "hibernate", "sleep", "power down" etc. Sometimes on
portables, there is a timer that will turnoff the hard disk after X minutes
of inactivity. My advice is to disable all those power saving options on a
desktop machine.