Updating Driver (help please lol)

[-Justin-]

Ok, Im running windows XP. I uninstall the driver for my video card from the control panel, I then restart my computer. XP tries to auto install drivers but I stop it, I then install the new drivers 40.41's.


Everything is fine it registers as the 40.41's now I fire up 3dmark the latest version, First two test's go fine i notice a small FPS drop, on Dragothic on the high detal test it freezes, everytime.

Now I do have my card overclocked, it ran through the test's fine at 220/520 with the 23.11's. When I put it at the usual 240/530, it locks up at Dragothic high level. It only locks up there if i run the test's before that one though. With the 40.41's its been locking up even with the clock speed at 220/520. I haven't tried lowering the clock speed anymore because it always ran fine at that speed with the 23.11's.

I re-installed the 23.11's again and its working fine at 220/520, so im looking for some advice. I got the same problem before when I tried updating to the 30.xx I can't remeber what version exactly.

It seems that for some reason only the 23.11's wanna run stable as a rock for me.

My 3dmark score is around 6700, thats not to bad. I have reason to believe that the reason my score isnt as high as I think it should be is mainly because of the chipset on the K7AMA, The Ali Magik chipset isnt so great, There was a mistake in shipping and I recived a K7AMA instead of the k7s5a and I just took credit cause I was in a hurry to get the system built and I did not really want to be sending it back and waiting for them to send me the k7s5a.

Anywho, I started ordering for newegg shortly there after lol.


Anyway, Thanks for any help with this problem.

****EDIT****

I forget to mention I also got Detonator Destroyer, and I set it to run in compatability mode from 98/me and it worked. I left that out of the message.