Well Chipmunk we are in the same boat. I can however play Quake3 all night long if I wish when using the Asus e-Geforce drivers 6.27. They are fast and dont crash. Direct X gaming is questionable though. Alot of games hard lock the system after 20 minutes or so of play. So I have come to the comclusion that I have plunked down almost $1500 in upgrades to be able to play quake3 rock stable. Kinda sucks. I DO use my machine for other tasks (photoshop, 3ds max etc) and there are NO problems. I can only play Directx games stable with the OLD and SLOWER 5.xx drivers. Here's my setup.
Athlon 750 on a MSI k7pro MB and a 550 on same MB (second pc)
Geforce DDR 140core ocd ???mem I forget Geforce256(second pc)
512MB pc133 ram 256MB pc133cas2 Crucial(second PC)
SBlive Value (both pcs)
2x13.6gigz 7200rpm Striped 13.6gigz 7200rpm(second pc)
Intel pro100 NICs in both machines
A ton of USB ****.
4x Burner, 50x cdroms, 12xDVD
zip drives,
So there you have it. Both machines exhibiting the same behavior........ Only games running stable are Quake3 and Counterstrike. I never had this much trouble with my Intel boxes. Im starting think that my next pc upgrade will be using Intel components. Who is running a ROCK STABLE rig using AMD and Nvidia components?
Thanks!