DOScrash

Can anyone recommend any software for my STB TV PCI video card (based on the BT848 chipset)? What software is the best for watching television or using the video capture in Windows 2000? Which ones are comaptible? I found many drivers on http://www.driverguide.com. Many of the drivers were uploads of different brands of the chipset. Would it be safe to use those? Which one in your opinion is the best? Thanks for the time and advice! ------------------ AMD K-6 550mhz 128mb PC100 SDRAM Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 Ultra Sound Blaster Live! Value Seagate 8.6gb Mitsumi 4048TE CD-RW Toshiba 40x CD-ROM Asus P5A Socket 7 motherboard

Hey, on an update to my problem and the final solution, what I did was disable EXTERNAL CACHE on my Asus P5A-B motherboard using the Award BIOS version 1010 Beta 2 (although it might work with previous versions). The computer stopped crashing and became completely stable, however, there is a little slowdown, but so unnoticeable that you only notice it if you know that the EXTERNAL CHACHE was disabled

I just clean installed Windows 2000 on my PC and my Nvidia TNT2 Ultra card is extremely unstable. The official Nvidia Microsoft drivers cause the OS to freeze on startup After about 20-30 minutes of normal OS use such as browsing folders, installing programs or browsing the internet, with the latest Detonator 2 v5.22 drivers or the beta Detonator 2 v5.32 drivers, my computer blue screens everytime saying that there is an error with the "nv4_disp.dll" file. This is the display dll for the Nvidia Detonator 2 v5.X drivers. I ran a few tests and here is what I found: When I load up the operating system with the latest Nvidia 5.X drivers and leave my computer alone, it will not crash. When I run Quake 3 in a demo loop for a long time, nothing happens, it runs fine and never crashes. I had it run for about 1 and 1/2 hours. When I run a Winamp song in a loop it crashes within 20-30 minutes. After 20-30 minutes of miscellaneous operating system use, it will crash. I have heard that the P5A has trouble supplying power to the GeForce cards and some people have told me this could be the problem. I have flashed the BIOS on my motherboard from the official 1007 to the beta 1010 version. I have also adjusted the voltage settings on my motherboard to increase power to the AGP card. Both have not worked. I have e-mailed Diamond Multimedia customer support and they advised me to configure BIOS settings. None of these worked. Also, I have downloaded the latest AGP drivers from Acer/ALI's website. My brother's computer is identical to mine except he has a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee. When I put the Nvidia TNT2 Ultra in his computer with the latest drivers, it will also behave the same way and crash. I tested a different Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 Ultra from a friend's PC and it behaved the same way. I then tested a Creative Labs Annihilator Pro GeForce2 GTS 32mb card and it behaved the same way. I then tested a 64mb Voodoo 5 and the computer is completely stable! (possibly since it uses it's own power supply and/or different drivers?) I found that the Detonator 3.78 Drivers work but that they don't support OpenGL or Direct 3D! I also found that if I use the Detonator 2 5.XX Drivers and keep the Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to the left (any other notch will make it crash) the computer is stable, but the display of course is very sluggish! With the Detonator 5.32 Drivers, the computer will also crash DURING THE GAME in the latest Star Trek Voyager Elite Force Demo (Quake III engine) Here are my complete system specifications: Asus P5A-B Socket 7 motherboard Diamond Viper v770 Ultra TNT2 32mb AMD K6-2 550 128 PC100 SDRAM Sound Blaster Live! Value Seagate 8.6gb HD Creative Labs 48X CD-ROM Mistumi 4804TE CD-RW 3com Ethernet 3509B ISA card Realtek Ethernet PCI card Diamond SupraMAX 56i Modem

I updated my AGP drivers through Acer's website, but that didn't help any with the Detonator 5.X drivers. I tried the 3.78 drivers and they worked! My computer is stable! (However, will games run as fast?)

I just clean installed Windows 2000 on my PC and my Nvidia TNT2 Ultra card is extremely unstable. The official Nvidia Microsoft drivers cause the OS to freeze on startup After about 20-30 minutes of normal OS use such as browsing folders, installing programs or browsing the internet, with the latest Detonator 2 v5.22 drivers or the beta Detonator 2 v5.32 drivers, my computer blue screens everytime saying that there is an error with the "nv4_disp.dll" file. This is the display dll for the Nvidia Detonator 2 v5.X drivers. I ran a few tests and here is what I found: When I load up the operating system with the latest Nvidia 5.X drivers and leave my computer alone, it will not crash. When I run Quake 3 in a demo loop for a long time, nothing happens, it runs fine and never crashes. I had it run for about 1 and 1/2 hours. When I run a Winamp song in a loop it crashes within 20-30 minutes. After 20-30 minutes of miscellaneous operating system use, it will crash. I have heard that the P5A has trouble supplying power to the GeForce cards and some people have told me this could be the problem. I have flashed the BIOS on my motherboard from the official 1007 to the beta 1010 version. I have also adjusted the voltage settings on my motherboard to increase power to the AGP card. Both have not worked. I have e-mailed Diamond Multimedia customer support and they advised me to configure BIOS settings. None of these worked. Also, I have downloaded the latest AGP drivers from Acer/ALI's website. My brother's computer is identical to mine except he has a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee. When I put the Nvidia TNT2 Ultra in his computer with the latest drivers, it will also behave the same way and crash. I tested a different Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 Ultra from a friend's PC and it behaved the same way. I then tested a Creative Labs Annihilator Pro GeForce2 GTS 32mb card and it behaved the same way. I then tested a 64mb Voodoo 5 and the computer is completely stable! (possibly since it uses it's own power supply and/or different drivers?) I found that the Detonator 3.78 Drivers work but that they don't support OpenGL or Direct 3D! I also found that if I use the Detonator 2 5.XX Drivers and keep the Hardware Acceleration slider all the way to the left (any other notch will make it crash) the computer is stable, but the display of course is very sluggish! With the Detonator 5.32 Drivers, the computer will also crash DURING THE GAME in the latest Star Trek Voyager Elite Force Demo (Quake III engine) Here are my complete system specifications: Asus P5A-B Socket 7 motherboard Diamond Viper v770 Ultra TNT2 32mb AMD K6-2 550 128 PC100 SDRAM Sound Blaster Live! Value Seagate 8.6gb HD Creative Labs 48X CD-ROM Mistumi 4804TE CD-RW 3com Ethernet 3509B ISA card Realtek Ethernet PCI card Diamond SupraMAX 56i Modem [This message has been edited by DOScrash (edited 03 July 2000).] [This message has been edited by DOScrash (edited 03 July 2000).] [This message has been edited by DOScrash (edited 09 July 2000).]

Is there a dual socket 7 motherboard I can use with Windows 2000? I can't find any company that sells such an item.

I just clean installed Windows 2000 on my PC and my Nvidia TNT2 Ultra card is extremely unstable. The official Nvidia Microsoft drivers cause the OS to freeze on startup, the latest Detonator 2 v5.22 driver and the beta Detonator 2 v5.33 drivers. After about 20-30 minutes of normal OS use such as browsing folder, installing programs or browsing the internet, my computer blue screens and kernel dumps everytime saying that there is a problem with the "nv4_disp.dll" file. This is the display dll for the Nvidia Detonator 2 v5.X drivers. I ran a few tests and here is what I found: When I load up the operating system with the latest Nvidia 5.X drivers and leave my computer alone, it will not crash. When I run Quake 3 in a demo loop for a a long time, nothing happens, it runs fine and never crashes. I had it run for about 1 and 1/2 hours. When I run a Winamp song in a loop it crashes within 20-30 minutes. After 20-30 minutes of miscellaneous operating system use, it will crash. I have heard that the P5A has trouble supplying power to the GeForce cards and some people have told me this could be the problem. I have flashed the BIOS on my motherboard from the official 1007 to the beta 1010 version. I have also adjusted the voltage settings on my motherboard to increase power to the AGP card. Both have not worked. I have e-mailed Diamond Multimedia customer support and they advised me to configure BIOS settings. None of these worked. Also, I have been suggested to download the latest AGP and IDE motherboard device drivers from ALI's website. However, I have a terrible connection with the website (since it is in Taiwan) and cannot download the drivers much less load the driver website page. My brother's computer is identical to mine except he has a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee. When I put the Nvidia TNT2 Ultra in his computer with the latest drivers, it will also behave the same way and crash. I tested a different Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 Ultra from a friend's PC and it behaved the same way. I then tested a Creative Annihilator Pro GeForce2 GTS 32mb card and it behaved the same way. I then tested a Voodoo 5 64mb and the computer is completely stable! Here are my complete system specifications: Asus P5A Socket 7 motherboard Diamond Viper v770 Ultra TNT2 AMD K-6 550 128 PC100 SDRAM Sound Blaster Live! Value Seagate 8.6gb HD Toshiba 40X CD-ROM Mistumi 4048TE CD-RW 3com Ethernet 3509B ISA card Realtek Ethernet PCI card Diamond SupraMAX 56i Modem [This message has been edited by DOScrash (edited 03 July 2000).]

Hello. Under Windows 2000 Professional, after using the 5.22 or 5.30 Detonator 2 drivers for a while (20-30 minutes), my computer blue screens and kernel dumps everytime. I've tried some tests to see if it was overheating, bad drivers or bad software. Here's what I've done: I booted up Windows 2000 Profesional and left i on without any activity. No crashes occured and I stopped observing it after an hour. I then started a Winamp song in the background and the computer crashed within a half an hour. Under normal use (i.e. opening up windows, browsing the web) it crashes within 20-30 minutes everytime. Does anyone know what the problem is? I would gladly appreciate any help on the subject. I tried the Microsoft drivers but the OS freezes up during startup. Also, I'm told that Microsoft drivers have no OpenGL or Direct 3D suppport which I greatly need for games. ------------------ AMD K-6 550mhz 128mb PC100 SDRAM Diamond Viper V770 TNT2 Ultra Sound Blaster Live! Value Seagate 8.6gb Mitsumi 4048TE CD-RW Toshiba 40x CD-ROM Asus P5A Socket 7 motherboard