How many have had problems with the GF2 here?

[Cam]

I run the V7700 on a A7V and its flawless. The A7V BIOS 1007 has made my system bulletproof. It never ever crashes anymore. I also use a good 300 watt PSU which helps make T-birds more stable. Dropping the CUV4X to AGP 2x mode may help alot while only affecting performance minimally.

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Cam

My rig is...

AMD Athlon 1000
ASUS A7V
ANTEC 300 watt PSU
Western Digital 40 GIG ATA 100
256 Megs PC 133 @ CAS2
SB Live! Value
ASUS V7700 Geforce 2 GTS 32 Meg
Dell 19" Trinitron Monitor

Sure beats the old k6-2

[ClawViper]

Originally posted by Miracle Max:
I just built my new machine. I'm running a AMD 1333 on a Gigabyte GA-7DX motherboard, and using an Elsa Gladiac Ultra 64. The system runs great until I get into a game; then the program crashes, or the system will hang. Anyone have any suggestions on what I should try to fix this problem?

There are alot of good things you can try on www.geforcefaq.com . Check back here if you don't find a solution at that place, And i'll try to help you.. (a blind man leading another blind man)

[scheherazade]

This is what the problem is... the gf2 uses a lot of power.

look on your power supply, the 5 voly wire (yellow) should have an amperage rating. the minimum you should have (for it to just work without damaging anything, without many cards and having a fast cpu) is a 28 amp rating. if you wanna get rid of your problems, and if you don't want to have to have your RAM/clockgen/IO voltage up, jsut get a power supply with an insane power rating.

Enermax 451 is good. it has a 44amp rating for the 5 volt wire. (btw, the cpu, cards, mobo, etc, mostly run off the 5 volt, drives and such use the 12 volt) 44 is complete overkill for the typical computer. but if you're using a faster cpu (1000+) or have a lot of cards, you're gonna need it to have power left over for the gf2.

once you got enough power, the triangles will stop flickering, the lockups will go away, agp4x will work (hehe, even 2x for you poor 25 amp people). and you'll be a happy camper. AND you won't need an upped clockgen/io/ram voltage for things to work.

btw, this is why the higher glockgen voltage fixxes stuff... raising the voltage will raise the 'potential' for the device (i.e. it'll respond stronger). but raising the voltage also drops the current usage. therefore if you don't have enough amps you'll be saving on them by raising the voltage. the card will actually run cooler too, since current is what generates heat, not voltage. only problem is that you risk damaging the card from a lack of sufficient current. you'll see this as a permanent scar later.

i.e. before raising the voltage you have video artifacts. after raising the voltage they pretty much went away. you would still get a triangle flicker here or there once in a while.
after you get a higher power supply the last remnants of any visual artifacts will go away completely. but if you take off the io voltage rise, you'll be back to normal voltage, but you'll still get a triangle flicker here or there once in a while (same performance as with a lower supply and a higher voltage, but now the voltage is normal). it'll be a reminder that you shouldn't use expensive cards in underpowered systems that little flicker here or there will be on that card forever from then on

btw, damage did not occur from too high a voltage setting, it happened form a too low current. anyone who'se geforce starts to get video artifacts about a day or so after you insalled it [regardless of weather you ever raised glockgen/io/ram voltage](and you had a weak power supply), that card will never perform like new again...

-scheherazade

p.s. i have 5 pci cards plus my gf2u on the agp, 4 hard drives, 2 cdroms, a floppy, 256 megs ram, and a 1200 mhs processor. before getting a bigger power supply, and without raising the clockgen voltage, my computer couldn't run more than 30 seconds in q3a without the video turning to complete crap and the computer locking up.

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A7M266 w/ 1200 + 256ddr 1600
GF2Ultra
WinBlowsME
Cooling? hah! when it blows buy one more up to date

[falconflyer]

The only problems that I have had with my GeFroce is that it would not allow the computer to "wake up". Every time it went into uspend mode, when it came back on, gibberish would fill the screen. Only the previous drivers would let it resume normally.

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1.0GHz Thunderbird
ASUS A7V133
512MB PC133 CAS2 SDRAM
Elsa Gladiac GeForce2 GTS 32MB
SBLive! MP3+ 5.1
Maxtor 30GB ATA/100 HD
Antec SX840 Workstation Tower
APC Back-Ups 650

[scheherazade]

actaully, i've never had a computer return from suspend. it just doesn't seem to wanna work for me. so i just set it to always on, with my monitor turning off in 15 mins. not like it matters when it's on always, the lifespan of all your components is longer than they will be useful. you'll throw them away before you need to replace them. unless you have an ideological issue with using more power than you need to (greenpeace anyone?) just turn off suspend and forget your problems.

-scheherazade

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A7M266 w/ 1200 + 256ddr 1600
GF2Ultra
WinBlowsME
Cooling? hah! when it blows buy one more up to date

[overdriver]

i have Asus v7700 deluxe. no problem with my MSI board. one of my coworker sold this to me since he couldn't POST using his new abit board. he bought Herculis Prophet 2 pro board and it was same! well.. that's another story.. anyway, GF2 works fine with my machine. I overclock and did some serious load but all games run really fast except UT <- this game has occasional slow-down no matter what I do(default clock + old or new drivers).

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Cooking Tbird900@1Ghz at 35C~42C, MSI K7T Pro2A, Asus 7700 GF2 deluxe(220/360), Micron PC133 256MB SDRAM and Philips Acoustic Edge, 7431 3Dmark score.

[ClawViper]

So i guess i'm screwed then...
My rating on my PS is 25Amp for +5v. And it's 300w. I get lockups when VIO is at 3.56 (default) but other than that everything looks good in both d3d and opengl, and at 3.31 i have no lockups but tearing in opengl, and some wierd horizontal lines when zooming in d3d.

I have only had this card for about 2.5 months so this must be coverd by the warranty. I'm gonna send this card back and hopefully exchange it for another or a radeon!

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Athlon 1GHz @ 1.13GHz (1.75v fsb oc only)
Superorb (It chipped my chip man!!)
Asus A7V rev 1.007
256mb Mosel vitalic cas2
Asus GF2 GTS Deluxe 32mb (damnit!)
2x46Gb IBM 75gxp
Sb live player 5.1
Hitachi DVD gd7500
300w case w 1x80mm fans
Nokia M5122 ADSL Modem on a 768Kbps line (up&down)

[scheherazade]

and get a stronger power supply, so you don't kill your next card with that power hungry cpu of yours...

-scheherazade

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A7M266 w/ 1200 + 256ddr 1600
GF2Ultra
WinBlowsME
Cooling? hah! when it blows buy one more up to date