sledgeh

Hi guys ... I have pulled my hair out on this one. The system runs FINE (bld 2114PRO is GREAT) -- with 192Megs of RAM until I try and play a Glide based game (Have not tried OGL Yet). I have the following hardware : Asus P2B-LS BIOS 1006 (I know I REALLY need to flash the BIOS) 192Megs Ram PII 400 Matrox Mil II PCI (8 Megs) Diamond Monster 3D II (Voodoo II - 8Megs) Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla Cheap AMD PCI 10Mbit ethernet card I just installed w2k bld. 2114 and if I have more than 64 megs of ram in my 'puter my machine locks with an error messge about "memmap -- unable to map memory" when I try to run a 3D game (Glide) -- literally the game will not even get to a title screen ... and it is a HARD freeze (Unreal is my best example) -- I have the latest INF file for the voodoo II off of ntgamepalace. Oh I have bios 1006 on the Asus board ... I went into bios setup and there is a graphics aperature setting (I believe in later bios revs it is called AGP graphics aperature) -- but even tho NEITHER card is AGP I tried cranking it up to 256 .... I tried 128 ... NO LUCK.... If I pull out 128Megs of ram everything runs fine.... any help would be GREATLY appreciated... Oh one last thing... just to make sure I didn't have bad ram I tried each stick individually and let Unreal run the time demo for about an hour ... Brian

So your the same SHS from MS beta news... I didn't get a chance to respond to you there yet.... but I will go ahead here.... it is in no way shape or form a hardware prob.... I have NT 4.0, Win98SE, Linux and Solaris X86 that all boot from this machine. They all load and play glide and open gl games / apps just fine with 192 Megs installed....with 98 D3D works just fine... ohh one other thing... your theory that it may be the positioning of the ram in the slots... well : A - I have 3 64 Meg sticks (rated 100Mhz CAS2 if anyone cares) not a 128 and a 64 ... the p2b-ls board does have 4 sdram slots tho.... and just for the heck of it I swapped them around.....no luck.... but.... B - As I stated above 4 other OS's work just fine..... As a last side note ... I would like to appologize to JimmyK -- It was late when I wrote that ... and I was real tired.... I posted an almost identical message on m.p.w2k.b.h, and I *DID* put in there where I work and that it was work related.... But anyway... I also would like to point out that it is *STILL* a waste of time to post messages like that ... everyone KNOWS that 2114 is an interim build... that does not change the fact that MS is accepting bug reports on it (which I did file) so it must be tested... if this were an INTERNAL release your statement would be valid... But just for the hell of it I am gonna try and get 2072 and see if it worked in that build... it which case this is all a moot point... Thanks, Brian

I guess you just did not bother to read the post... I work for REAL 3D....... I kinda HAVE to test what I am given..... 2114 is what I was given.....