Cant get g4mx to work with any detonator driver

[serric]

Abit Suilaro Geforce4 440mx,
Abit KT7 (i think.. been a long time since i bought it) motherboard with a Athlon t-bird 1.4ghz,
Sound blaster live platium 5.1 w/ live drive connected
NIC,
and a ATI tv card running on windows xp

I had this problem with windows 98, ME and XP, basicly, the drivers that came with the card and that i get off a-bits website work, they never crash, but, some games they are _horribly_ slow on. Dosnt matter if i put the resolition up, turn options on or scale them down, its still just as slow.. if i install any version of the detonator drivers, things look great, smooth as silk, none of the games have speed issues, but the computer crashes every 10 seconds to 2 minutes when running a game. (Everquest, Unreal 2, just about anything)

Has there been something wrong with my card from the start? is there maby a bios setting thats screwed up? Ive tried with every version of the detonators that i can find, but still no luck =( I had this same problem with my Guillemont maxi gamer xentor 32 (tnt2ultra)

[speedstream5621]

The only thing I can think of is that the ATI drivers are conflicting with Nvidia drivers, but the ATI harware is not a video card so I don't see how that could be a problem. Take out the TV card, remove ALL of the drivers for it, and see if that helps.

[serric]

Just did, no luck =(

Took everything out but a minimal amount of ram, hdd and video

[Blue_MiSfit]

suggestions
1) Set ur BIOS to AGP 4x
2) Turn FastWrites off if you can
3) Do you have latest Via 4in1's ? aka Hyperion
4) Reinstall XP with nothing in there but the Video Card
5) Get a real video card

[serric]

1) Bios is at 4,
2) Off by default
3) Via 4n1's? I have no idea what that is =/ I lost my knack for knowlage back when the tnt2 was the big thing.
4)Its been a problem since day 1, ive reformatted and tried clean installs of just about every windows post 98
5) Im broke =( stronger tranny and turbocharger is higher on the priority list right now

[cablejuggaloz]

3) Via 4n1's? I have no idea what that is =/ I lost my knack for knowlage back when the tnt2 was the big thing.

They are very important. Here is a link to get the newest ones!

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2

[cablejuggaloz]

P.S. - It is best to install them on a clean format right after first boot before installing drivers for all your cards and installing apps.

[serric]

What exsactly is a 4n1?