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Thread: Geforce 3 woes.

  1. 04-20-2001, 02:39 PM #1
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    Geforce 3 woes.

    I know this isn't really the place for this, just wondering if anyone has any magic tips to help solve this.

    I have an ELSA gladiac 920 (Geforce 3) just freshly installed into my system. Athlon 1ghz, VIA KT7A chipset. Win98, drivers 11.01.

    The system works fine, but after about 5 minutes from booting, I get lots of visual artifacts on screen. Appearing now. They appear very quickly when running 3D applications. AGP driver is on standard not turbo, all my BIOS settings are crancked to their minimum, and still it happens. After soo long it totally locks my system. Gfx card is irq 11, with only ACPI sharing irq 11.

    Is this a hardware thing, via thing, or driver thing? Anybody know?

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  2. 04-20-2001, 03:24 PM #2
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    Re: Geforce 3 woes.

    Unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question, but I was curious about where you obtained such hardware?

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  3. 04-20-2001, 11:10 PM #3
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    Re: Geforce 3 woes.

    i'd try installing the latest via service pack
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  4. 04-21-2001, 03:15 AM #4
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    Re: Geforce 3 woes.

    I got it from Nvidia, as part of the Gathering attendee deal.

    I've installed the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers. Even tried using the standard mode AGP driver instead of Turbo. ELSA technical support are closed all weekend!

    It locks my system up too.. to the point of not being able to do anything. I've had to change back to my old card for the time being.

    I also managed to reserve an irq for the gfx card alone.. but still made no differnce.

    The mainboard is an ABIT one.. if I failed to mention that before...

    Matt, Cass... any ideas? Surely some ppl at nvida have these cards.. anyone experience screen corruption with them? Should I try installing Win2k?

    I guess I'll have to wait until Monday to phone Elsa tech support.

    Thanks anyway... if anyone has any info at all about screen corruption fixes in via chipsets, please let me know ASAP!

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  5. 04-21-2001, 03:36 AM #5
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    Re: Geforce 3 woes.

    hm.. 12.00 driver is out.. have you tried those, too?
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    Re: Geforce 3 woes.

    I'm just about to try those now.

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  7. 04-21-2001, 04:21 AM #7
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    Re: Geforce 3 woes.

    Well it took me a while to get them installed, due to it not booting up.. but finally it's up. I'm still getting a small amoumnt of screen corruption.. but it aint crashed yet.

    I turned both my drives from UDMA to PIO.. I think there may be some connection... dunno..

    still intermittant corruption occuring now..

    hasn't locked up yet though, which is good.
  8. 04-21-2001, 05:06 AM #8
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    Re: Geforce 3 woes.

    I think I've fixed it.

    I'm using 12.00 drivers.

    I did the following 3 things.

    1) Used block transfere for page flip technique.
    2) Disabled support for enhanced cpu instructions (athlon)
    3) Disabled anisotropic filtering.

    I've gotten through a q3 demo, mad onion demo, crytek demo, and I've got no corruption or lock-ups anywhere..

    I assume it's one of those things then. Unless the card is deciding to play ball just for the moment...

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  9. 04-21-2001, 12:04 PM #9
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    Re: Geforce 3 woes.

    Never seen it with mine, but I don't touch Via chipsets with a ten-foot pole.

    - Matt
  10. 04-21-2001, 12:10 PM #10
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    Re: Geforce 3 woes.

    Originally posted by mcraighead:
    Never seen it with mine, but I don't touch Via chipsets with a ten-foot pole.

    - Matt
    Right, you were BX guy, right...

    Which motherboard do you have now?
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