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by **Marc Elliot** » Wed, 24 Feb 1999 04:00:00

I have the following system:

Abit BH6, Celeron 450 (300A)
64 MB SDRAM
2 Diamond Monster II's SLI
SB Live! Value (Just Installed)
Thrustmaster Nascar Pro Wheel

I am running Glide 2.53, but recently (after installing my SB Live), I have
experienced freezes while driving (only while driving), where the video
locks up, but the game still plays, as I hear sounds of cars around me, my
acceleration or braking, and my hitting walls as I can't see wher i'm going.
Esc-Enter doesn't work, but Ctrl-Alt-Del dumps me back out to Windows. Has
anyone else had these problems? I am assuming that it is the SB, as that is
newly installed, but if anyone has any input, it would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Marc.

by **AKH** » Wed, 24 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Try reinstalling or uninstalling and then reinstalling GPL.

Alan

> I have the following system:

> Abit BH6, Celeron 450 (300A)
> 64 MB SDRAM
> 2 Diamond Monster II's SLI
> SB Live! Value (Just Installed)
> Thrustmaster Nascar Pro Wheel

> I am running Glide 2.53, but recently (after installing my SB Live), I have
> experienced freezes while driving (only while driving), where the video
> locks up, but the game still plays, as I hear sounds of cars around me, my
> acceleration or braking, and my hitting walls as I can't see wher i'm going.
> Esc-Enter doesn't work, but Ctrl-Alt-Del dumps me back out to Windows. Has
> anyone else had these problems? I am assuming that it is the SB, as that is
> newly installed, but if anyone has any input, it would be appreciated.

> Cheers,
> Marc.

by **Eric T. Busc** » Wed, 24 Feb 1999 04:00:00

The screen-freeze can be a symptom of a heat-related problem on the
Voodoo2, so it's possible that adding the SBLive! somehow disrupted
airflow in the case. An easy way to test this without opening the case
and moving cards around would be to just underclock the Voodoo2 and see
if the lockups go away.

If underclocking the cards solves the problem, you might want to
rearrange the cards to give the Voodoo2's a little more breathing room,
or possibly add a fan or two to cool the cards directly.

FYI, Diamond clocks their Voodoo2's at 95MHz (I believe it drops to
93Mhz when run in SLI) though the chips are only rated by 3Dfx at 90Mhz.

Eric

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