ASUS V7700 vs ASUS P3V4X

[prum555 0]

I recently bought a V7700 Pure and I have a lot of grieves

using the new board. My system consists of the following

 

Mobo : ASUS P3V4X Bios 1005

VIA 4in1 : 4.91a

CPU : PIII 600eb

RAM : 256MB @ 133mhz

Video : ASUS V7700 Geforce2 GTS 32MB DDR

 

Initially I am using Windows ME and the ASUS GFORCE2 Driver

is 6.31c. Windows ME hang on me for a couple of times. I

tried to use nVidia 10.08 and ASUS 5.33 drivers. Both

cases didnot fixed the problem. This morning I boot up with W2K for the new board and use the ASUS 6.49 driver for NT. I encountered the same problem of system hang when I playing video or D3D games. Any suggestion?

[prum555 0]

I came across another discussion thread in Insane Hardware. One guy had the similar problem and he suggested to turn off the FAST WRITE in the BIOS and the problem went away. I immediately made my change to my P3V4X Bios and viola it worked and I have been using it for the last 3 to 4 hours with no recurrence. I think this is the answer to my

problem and I like to share with you guys.

[Brian Frank 0]

Hmmm, never run into that problem. I have a Hercules 3d Prophet II MX board, and I stopped using their drivers after I kept getting BSOD's after exiting Descent 3. I only use the Nvidia reference drivers, and those are the latest betas--12.00 dets.

I also would suggest that you use the Win2K drivers, because there are specific ones for Win2k, so Im guessing thats what your problem is from what youve put up.

I know Asus is quite thorough with their drivers, so there should be Win2k drivers on one of the asus discs. If not go to Asus website and get the drivers, or pick up the latest 12.00 Dets at this website.:

http://www.the-ctrl-alt-del.com/

 

Im running fast write w/o a problem on an Asus A7V with a Duron and have had no problems.

 

Well at least I know about GF2 cards under a P3 Via 133A setting. I have yet to replace my wonderful Voodoo 3 on my P3 system, but I'll probably pick up an MX card for it. So at least I'll know a fix for it if something like that pops up.

[ThC 129 0]

are you running the VIA patch on 2k? Also i know this is w*rez but look for a copy of Win2k SP2 if you can find it and try that.