Q: Hi,
I just built a computer:
Athlon XP1800
K7S5A Motherboard
Geforce 2 Ti
256megs dimm
400w power
fullsize case
Right at present a fan blowing on the processor, but has room for six more fans in front and 4 in 2 back.
Anyway, it works fine until I try to any intense 3D games or demos turn . it freezes after about 3 to 5 minutes in the game. I do not know what is causing this. The video card has a fan and heatsinks on. My system moderate reads about 87 Fahr. when I restart the computer after the crash and the processor is about 125 or so. I use the new detonator drivers. I use Windows ME and its the same setup on my old computer setup, I probably need to reinstall, but I do not think this is the problem, I can wrong.
Any help would be greatly appreciated . I have more fans? Do I have the video more cool? I thought that the stable should be able to carry out of the box. It is not overclocked.
update: Umm . I just checked my IRQs and it seems like the motherboard sound card has the same IRQ as the video card . Maybe this is it. If so, how can I IRQ for my sound card mb?
thanks!
Best Answer: Try this first if you have no luck email me
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Download the Autoruns.exe from Microsoft download:
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Locate the entry on the Startup list and remove.
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1… First, try to clean up your caches, Internet files and delete cookies
by doing this:
Click Start >> Control Panel >> Double click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options.
On the IE properties windows you will see these Tabs:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs |
Advanced
Under General Tab clear your History, Internet Files and Cookies.
Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
Then click on Programs Tab and click Manage Add-Ons and Disable all non
Verified Add-Ons (You should Renable them later one-by-one and see the
culprit and update it or remove it.
How to manage Add-Ons:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883256
Scan for malware from here:
Spybot Search & Destroy
Re:Hi people…
In case anyone wanted to hear the end of this story, I think I figured it out. Everything was working so well at one point, I reenabled by USB ports. This caused my modem and sound card to think they should use the same IRQ, thus all of the strange crashes. I can't believe that IRQ conflicts can cause such grief. I still can't get all my devices to work at once without trying to share IRQ's and all I have are a sound card, modem, video card and usb camera. That shouldn't be too much, right? Well, it seems to be. Is there an easy way to manage IRQ's?
thanks to everyone who responded
Re:I've just got a sound card (Ess-1), and a lucent modem installed… 1 cdrom, 1 cdrw
one thing, my motherboard supports the old style dimms and the newer style… maybe the old ones just aren't cutting it? That is, I have PC133 168 pin DIMM SDRAM's in it, 2 128's… it has room for the DDR ram but I'm not using it. Could these just not be good enough?
I tried that simm tester program and it doesn't seem to complete the tests… I don't know if that means I have bad simms or what….
Re:hmm possably bad memory? you can check the memory out with a free program from http://www.simmtester.com/
other than that.. run somthing that checks your voltages somthin might be out of wack..
What other cards do you have in your machine?
Re:Oh boy am I having problems…
It seemed for a while like it was working…. then I started to have problems again. I did everything, I reformatted, installed the newest AGP driver, uptodate geforce2 ti drivers (detonator), flashed bios, turned off bios caching, set the dram timing to "safe" and this is what happened:
I was trying to play the Ultima I remake demo at 1024×768x32bit. I had played it for a while before and it just hung up. This time, my whole computer shut off!! It SHUT OFF! I can't understand it. It's back on, now… of course…
I've got a CoolerMaster DP5-6I31C fan on the chip; I thought that should be enough…. is it that my cpu got too hot and that shut it down or is it the temp inside of the case? The temp normally sits at about 32C/89F for inside the case and 51C/123F for the CPU. I've got 3 case fans blowing… one blowing in from the front, one out of the side and one out of the back. Or, is my 400W power supply just not enough and I drew too much power?
help please!!
thanks
Re:I am using windows me and its the same installation from my old computer setup, I should probably reinstall but I don't think this is the problem, I might be wrong
Did you swap over just the hard drive to your new system you have listed ?
Athlon XP1800
K7S5A Motherboard
Geforce 2 Ti
256megs dimm
400w power
fullsize case
If you did then there is a good possibility that your drivers are conflicting from the old hardware to the new , if nothing resolve the issue per your responses then it maybe time for a fresh install of your OS !.
Re:I would keep PCI slot one empty which`s nearest to AGP slot (to stop it sharing with agp) ,did you try downloading and installing the latest SiS AGP driver from here (http://www.sis.com/support/driver/utility.htm) . Also some bios tweaks might help,disable system bios cacheable,disable video ram cacheable,I normally disable all video shadowing as well.
Re:Thank you!
I got the IRQ conflicts resolved and that helped somewhat, but it was still crashing. Next, I got the newest bios for the motherboard and flashed it… I can play!!! (at least so far) no more crashes! 
Your help was greatly appreciated! (as I played through the jedi knight 2 demo)
Re:Tried a BIOS update?
Also, try lowering your memory timings.
Your temps are a little high but (IMO) not high enough to cause crashes so I think you have a memory timing issue.
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