GF3 freezes in OpenGL

Fa1liure · Feb 13, 2002

Help with Graphics card..

Hi! I have a Visiontek Geforce 3 64mb agp installed on my Athlon 1.3ghz with Win2k.

When ever I am playing an opengl game, on some times my computer freezes.

It doesn't happen all the time but it happends usually in the middle of a game. Sometime it happends and sometimes it doesn't....

not only in games but I also got a screensaver with opengl and that too freezes...

I know its my GFX card so can anyone help me?

My mobo is MSI kt7 turbo with 512mb of ram.

thanks.

Didou · Feb 13, 2002

Might be the infamous infinite loop lots of people are getting...

Here's a thread that's related : NVIDIA BSOD's

Feel free to roam around the OLD BOARD to look for help & BTW welcome to the forums

Mictlantecuhtli · Feb 13, 2002

Freezes, literally, or crashes to BSOD? There's a difference. It could be bad driver, AGP (strap/fastwrite) problem, overheating/clocking (not likely), ..

Fa1liure · Feb 13, 2002

I know the problem, its because my irq number on the gfx card is the same of some of the other components...

anybody know how to fix this?

Mictlantecuhtli · Feb 14, 2002

Yep, disable ACPI from BIOS. But you'll need to reinstall your OS, the machine type should then be "Standard PC".

Mictlantecuhtli · Feb 14, 2002

General Description of IRQ Sharing in Windows

The ability to share IRQs should not prevent any hardware from working in general.

:haha:

Arris · Feb 14, 2002

Always a good source for info about geforce problems

www.geforcefaq.com

Phantasm66 · Feb 14, 2002

Originally posted by Mictlantecuhtli
Yep, disable ACPI from BIOS. But you'll need to reinstall your OS, the machine type should then be "Standard PC".

Or you could try changing hardware abstraction layers.... hhehehe..... results might be funny, though. Should work.

Go into device manager, expand computer, and see ACPI uniprocessor PC. change driver to standard PC.

You will also have to disable ACPI in the BIOS as well.

I am sure that this works, otherwise its disable ACPI in the BIOS and reinstall the operating system.

ToRN · Feb 15, 2002

There is no spoon

Originally posted by Mictlantecuhtli
Yep, disable ACPI from BIOS. But you'll need to reinstall your OS, the machine type should then be "Standard PC".

No, you don't. Change the driver of Computer under device manager. As you statet later, the IRQ sharing is not the problem.

uncleel · Feb 15, 2002

assigning the IRQs is possible in the BIOS submenu.

IRQ conflict?
control panel> system> device mgr> computer>
did you check for (!) any conflicts?
What irq's your using (they're listed)

IRQs problems with sound cards (SB Live, Aureal cards)
Windows has to reconfigure the IRQs when new componets are added (IE: NIC cards)
IRQs gets reassigned & the sound card ends up sharing IRQs with other devices.
Erratic sound card detection and also instability is the result.
These problems I usually fixed by manually reserving IRQ5 for the sound card.

Rather than radomly switching cards around in pci slots,
& depending on your bios:

Depending on your Motherboard & Bios:
Go into BIOS,see if there's a pnp/pci configuration.
on the Rh side should be four "pirq" settings.

Manually assigning the IRQs is possible in the "PnP/PCI configuration" BIOS submenu.
PIRQ_0 is for AGP and PCI-1
PIRQ_1 is for PCI-2 and PCI-3
PIRQ_2 is for PCI-5
PIRQ_3 is for PCI-4, PCI-6 and USB controllers.

The AGP slot and PCI-1 share an IRQ
PCI-2 and PCI-3 share an IRQ
PCI-4, PCI-6, and USB controllers share an IRQ
PCI-5 has its own IRQ

I'd set Sound for IRQ 5
Video for IRQ 9
Modem's good @ 11

sharing is ok except for devices

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