I got my friend a Visiontek GF3, and in ever game, every 3d app. Every 5 or sdo seconds their will be a slowdown. In Elite Force the FPS counter goes from liek 100 to 13 or 14 then back to 100 .. int he chameleon demo every 5 or 7 seconds it will slow down (and it is not durring the chameleon texture transitions either...)

Any Ideas?
here are system specs.

Asus P3f-b Mobo
P3 850
256 megs of ram (agp apature at 128)
win98 SE
VT GF3
Diamond Mnster sound MX400
Ethernet Card

No idea whats going on with it...
I really neeed to get this thign back to him.. so if anyone has any clue .

BTW everything in the background is closed ive checked everything, startup, MSconfig, registry)

no program running is causing this..

Thank You

Nick D

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