MojoMagic

I missread the message as dual PII...

Hey all! Got bit of a dilemma here. My TNT2 works fine with the 3.84e ASUS drivers. But I keep hearing good things about the 5.xx series. But every time I try to install them (5.22, 5.33) OpenGL dies on me. D3D works great, but OGL simply refuses to run. Does anyone know what to do? System: Dual Celeron 400 ABIT BP6 motherboard 256MB RAM ASUS AGP TNT2 (5.33 drivers)

Oops! Forgot to say that I'm running Windows 2000 sp1.

Oops! Forgot to say that I'm running Windows 2000 sp1.

Do you have an ABIT BP6 motherboard? Certain BIOS revisions for this board have been known to do this. If so, download the latest BIOS revision, and it should fix it.

Do you have an ABIT BP6 motherboard? Certain BIOS revisions for this board have been known to do this. If so, download the latest BIOS revision, and it should fix it.

What are the symptoms? My internal WinModem doesn't work under W2K either (currently using a borrowed 28.8). It dials and handshakes fine, but claims the port can't be opened. Sometimes it'll work for 2 minutes and then just stop without any kind of rror message. Used to work just fine in 9x.

Like many other BP6 owners on this board, I decided to flash my BIOS from the QQ (beta) to the QQ (final) versions. After doing this, most people seem to fall into 1 of 2 categories. a) Everything works dandy and everybody's happy. Windows refuses to boot and your PC is stuck in a reboot-loop. I unfortunately, like may others, found myself in the latter category. After many a reboot I acted on a hunch and looked at the power management settings in the BIOS. Low and behold, when the BP6 BIOS is flashed, all settings revert to their default values... Including ACPI power management, which seems to default to "disabled". Most of us BP6ers have installed W2K with ACPI support. So when W2K boots and tries to access it, it fails. Miserably. The beauty is that the solution to my (and hopefully many others) problems was simply to set ACPI (first option under Power Management in the BIOS - from memory) to "Enabled". W2K booted first go, and hasn't given me any fuss since. Hope this helps someone out there. PS: I have an internal WinModem 56K X2 (V.90 compat), that I got with my Dell XPS D333, that W2K identifies as a "3Com Windows Modem TI". It used to work fine under 98. Under W2K it dials and handshakes fine. But then complains that there was "no answer when opening the port". Anyone else have a similar issue? I'm currently running off a borrowed 28.8 and it's driving me insane. I'd appreciate any and all hlp on this matter. Thanks.

Yeah. I DID notice the 50% idle. But it wasn't totally hogging one CPU. It was more a 70/30 affair, with the second CPU taking most of the grunt. While the idle CPU time was @ 50% (bad), it didn't seem to slow the system down when I actually ran something. It also seemed pretty stable. Having said that, I still didn't trust it. So I reflashed back to the 2nd BETA just-in-case.