Win2k Pro + in game lockups all the time

[LaughingJon]

Hiya all,
Ok this has been happening for a while now and has finally started to p1$$ me off soooo mcuh that i thought i would as you guys as i am stumped..

I keep getting lock ups in Win2kPro. Just completed Diablo 2 Lord Of Destruction, but during play i had about 6 crashes. The pooter just stopped with the sound looping.

I have:

Sb player 1024 with the latest drivers.
A7V + 900@1000 Mobo is cool ie < 30 Cpu is <= 40.
Latest 4in1s as well.

This also happens in UT occasionally as well, plus other games as well and even just in windows on the net etc...

Gfx card is currently not overclocked as i thought it could be that, it is also blue orb'd plus slot cooler next to it.
120mm intake bottom front, 80mm intake over cpu, 120mm exhaust at top.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers Guys
Jon

[Bolweval]

Try putting you CPU back to 900MHz, if the problem goes away, then come back and tell us and maybe we can figure out where your weak link is in your system that’s not letting you O/C.

I don’t think Win2k is your problem.

Originally posted by LaughingJon:
Hiya all,
Ok this has been happening for a while now and has finally started to p1$$ me off soooo mcuh that i thought i would as you guys as i am stumped..

I keep getting lock ups in Win2kPro. Just completed Diablo 2 Lord Of Destruction, but during play i had about 6 crashes. The pooter just stopped with the sound looping.

I have:

Sb player 1024 with the latest drivers.
A7V + 900@1000 Mobo is cool ie < 30 Cpu is <= 40.
Latest 4in1s as well.

This also happens in UT occasionally as well, plus other games as well and even just in windows on the net etc...

Gfx card is currently not overclocked as i thought it could be that, it is also blue orb'd plus slot cooler next to it.
120mm intake bottom front, 80mm intake over cpu, 120mm exhaust at top.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers Guys
Jon

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ßolweval

P3 850@1054mhz
Elsa G-Force2-GTS
384 megs PC133@124
Vortex2 Sound Card
60gig ata100 Maxtor
30gig ata100 Quantum
13gig ata66 Seagate
Abit BE6-2
Win2K Pro
WinXP Pro Build 2505 RC1
Linux Mandrake8.0 ___________________

Make it idiot proof, And they'll make a better idiot.

[LaughingJon]

Ok, i will try that and if it works/dont work then i will post back here to let you know

Cheers
Jon

[Racer^]

If its not an overclocking instability issue, it may be a driver for one of your hardware devices. I had similar problems on my system and it turned out to be my vid-card drivers. Try various Win2k versions of your vid drivers and see what works.

Originally, MS had Win NT 3.x running the video drivers as a service-so it could be simply restarted if something went wrong. However, in order to get more performance out of the system (which they needed to compete in the workstation graphics industry), they decided to make vid drivers run as a system (ring-0?) process starting with NT 4 and on into Win2k. This increases performance but makes a driver problem usually prove fatal.

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ABit KT7 (YH) VIA 4.29 /
256 MB PC133 RAM /
TNT2 16MB (oc 160/160) Det 7.58 /
Maxtor 5.1GB 85120A8 & 40GB 5T040H4 /
ESS 1869 & NetGear FA311 10/100 NIC /
Win2k Pro SP2

[LaughingJon]

I am using the Dets 12 90s which ones do you suggest?

Cheers
Jon

[Bolweval]

I haven’t tried the 12.90's yet, but I'm hearing there fast, right now I'm using the 12.41's They’ve been really good for me, so I’ve just left them.

Make sure you un-install the old drivers before you install the new. Windows cant over write files that are in use.

Originally posted by LaughingJon:
I am using the Dets 12 90s which ones do you suggest?

Cheers
Jon

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ßolweval

P3 850@1054mhz
Elsa G-Force2-GTS
384 megs PC133@124
Vortex2 Sound Card
60gig ata100 Maxtor
30gig ata100 Quantum
13gig ata66 Seagate
Abit BE6-2
Win2K Pro
WinXP Pro Build 2505 RC1
Linux Mandrake8.0 ___________________

Make it idiot proof, And they'll make a better idiot.

[LaughingJon]

That could be where i am going wrong, i just use the update driver button and do it that way.

Cheers for the info,

Lets just hope all of this goes to making my box a little more stable

Laters
Jon

[alphaash]

Okay, I might just have a solution for you..... First, I see you have the 12.90 dets - that's good. You need the 4.32 4-in-1's - you can get them from www.overclockersonline.com. Next, make sure your soundblaster doesn't have any cards in the slots adjacent (I would recommend putting it in the slot furthest from your AGP slot, and last and most importantly go into your bios and tell it to reserve IRQ5 for a legacy device. That should fix the problem.

[LaughingJon]

Hiya,

I have still yet to try the backing down of the processor and play games as i have been busy.

However, for more info on this:

Sound card is in slot 3 (a7v) which says the irq is shared with the onboard AMR slot (not used) therefore no sharing should occur.

I have the 4.32s installed. And i have IRQ5 reserved in the bios as well.

This is a pain in the a$$ isn't it

I will need to try the processor at 900 and see about that, however, i graduate this week so am away for a whole week. If anyone else has any ideas i will report back next week

Cheers
Jon

[shill88]

I have an Asus A7V133 as my sig states but any way my computer was running great except for in games just like yours. Then I installed this ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/asus/misc/utils/amdagp.zip registry patch and all was good!

Good Luck,
Shawn

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The 2 Maxtors are in a Raid 0 array. If you have never experienced Raid I really suggest you try it its unbelieveable and my drives aren't even that good!

[LaughingJon]

Thank you shill88, i installed this and so far it all seems stable.

However, i have yet to put it back to normal speed again. But at least i am able to play a bit of UT/diablo2 without the machine crashing every 5mins on me.

Thanks all
Jon