SOS !!! SOS !!! computer freezes

[ruslan2001 0]

Hello my friends

help me out here please.

 

i tried to play Demo Delta Black Hawk Down my after 3-4 min. (always deferent places) game freezes and i must manualy unplug it. i had this problems before too. when it hapenned i manualy uplug then pug again and continued to played. i dont know what to do.

 

i have this system

 

motherboard Nvidia

audiocard Nforce

video (myself installed) Gforce 4200 Ti 132Mb

AMD Athlon XP 1900, 384 RAM

[WRX_Rocky 0]

Well Alec, I am having near the same problem too! But I have (as you saw my post before on the XP2600+ BIOS settings) a different system. I have

 

ASUS A7V8X motherboard (1010 BIOS, but did try their new 1011-008 Beta too)

XP2600+

512 DDR400 Crucial memory

Audigy2 (and latest drivers)

DX9 installed

Radeon 9700 PRO with the latest Catalyst 3.0 drivers

 

And after BHD Demo crapped on me, suddenly my system all last night was unstable! Suddenly there would be a screech, and then my system would go blank or reboot. Sometimes the desktop would be in 16 color 640X480 or not, but the dreaded SEND ERROR dialog box would be up and saying that the Radeon drivers were at fault. I don't know what to do. Right now the system has been stable overnight while it was on standby and so far now while I type this, but I have not played any 3D game with it yet.

 

I also looked over the links you sent me about the XP2600+, specially that one about the mis-labeled "C" packaged 2600 - but I checked mine and it is a "D" which is correct. Yet I STILL seem to have problems with correct settings. If I try to set it to manual and do the 12.5X166 it hangs at boot. If I set it to 2083 speed from the menu selection, it boots but only get AUTO or 333 as the memory setting. But when I do ASUS Probe is now shows up as a 2600+. When I set it to 16X133 it boots, shows 400 as memory speed (though won't boot with the 1011-008 Beta BIOS), but in ASUS Probe it shows it as an XP2200+ with speed of 2200 and memory bus at 133. Boy, things sure were a lot simpler in the old days

[WRX_Rocky 0]

Thanks Alec. Ooops, yes. It was Chai over at Rojacs that sent me the link. Mighty interesting too to find that out about the C & D versions! How some XP2600+ 333FSB packages in fact had the 266FSB inside them!

 

As for the Radeon drivers - the Catalyst 3.0 (latest 6255) is made for DX9. Not sure how the older will work with DX9, and to remove DX9 is a real PITA. But I might try that later . . . .

[WRX_Rocky 0]

Alec, here is the hole story I posted on another forum:

 

Well guys, I found the problem, and what a tale too! Seems that first off, the Enermax case I bought had a bad power supply (330W too) that was very erratic in both power and fan speeds (according to ASUS Probe - sometimes would jump from below the 1200rpm threshold on up to 18000rpm). But that was not all though!!!!!!!!! Somehow, during assembly, someone at the factory had placed the speaker, power, LED, etc wires in a place where it got pinched against the metal on the front of the case! And when I went and traded in my A7V8X for a new A7N8X mobo (thank God for FRY's loose return policies!!!!!!) and installed it - the speaker wire crumbled in my hands. When I took the front of the case off, I found a real horror story there! Quite a few wires were burned right through, and the speaker wires were, well, WERE no longer there. Good I had an old bad power supply laying around, as I was able to cut the wires off that and slice them in and solder the splices.

 

Ok, ready to go, systems all green, time to launch this puppy! WHAT???????? Nothing! Turn it on, the fans spin for a sec, then nada! Take out the NEW power supply (they gave me a nice discount on an Enermax Whisper 350W) and go back to the store only to find out it tested fine. HUH???!!!! Well, turns out I *missed* one pin on the old style plug of the floppy drive! Came home, made sure it was on right and systems all GO! YES!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Now, . . . the dreaded VIA 4 in 1 drivers!!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!! Had to go into safe mode recovery to rename them and force the system to error out. But what now? Won't boot, so had to use the XP install CD then. The darn XP CD has an error in repairing???? Turns out my SONY DVD Rom drive has probs reading regular data CD's. Took awhile to discover this, but glad I did! Good I have a separate burner, cause that did the trick. So, I did a repair on the system and got it up and running, installed all the nForce2 drivers and away I go . . . . . . untill idiot me tries the NV 2.0 ATAIDE drivers! Now I go into a reboot loop!!!! Got that taken care of and now back to normal. But now the last problem. The Radeon control panel was corrupt and I could not uninstall it for days! And the drivers were not being recognized by it. Thanks to ATi Techs, I deleted some files and folders, reinstalled, and now all is fine! Well, to a point hehehe.

 

The system now runs, runs great in fact! The problem with the screeching was NOT the 9700, but had to do with the old flakey power supply that came with the new Enermax case, as well as the wires buring out and thus shorting out. So all that is solved. My only sad part is that I can not seem to be able to OC the XP2600+, not even a tiny little bit I tried the 1001G that came on the N8X, tried the 1001c, and now the UBER 1002-004 with the latest SATA BIOS in it. System fails to boot unless I have it at 12.5X166. Oh well, but it is running!

 

And so now I have the newer Whisper 350W power supply, and bought the 3 stage Volcano 9 HSF. No more probs except for the no go on the OC'ing of the chip.

 

But thanks for all your help guys!

[WRX_Rocky 0]

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P.S.=> The VIA drivers part I have not had hassles with here myself, I use the current 445 "hyperion" builds... boy, you really went thru the whole 9 yards of sorrow putting that rig together, hardware TO software... good to hear it works, you must be a patient & perseverent person to have put up with all that & done it yourself: Good deal & Good job is all I have to say! apk

Well, I used to get into tweaking my computer as well as breaking it and learning how to fix it as a hobby hehehe. But now a days, I just want to play my games and do the work AT work. But I still do enjoy a challenge every so often. And who knows, perhaps what I went through and posted, might save another hours of hassles?

As for the Hyp 445 drivers, when I installed the A7N8X mobo, I had not uninstalled the 445 drivers yet, as there was no uninstall program for them. And when the PC would not boot, when going into SAFE mode, I saw it was stopping at the VIAAGP.SYS driver. So, I knew then that the VIA stuff was not happy with the nForce2 components. So, I had to find a way to get back into XP to remove them (or install the NF drivers). So all is well now (so far LOL)