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by **Ray Bryde** » Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:19:33

After installing a new 64 Mb card, all hell broke loose trying to get my
system running again. I traced it to the AGP aperture size and all is well
now - almost. In my quest to find the solution I booted in safe mode and ran
Norton WinDoctor which cleaned up a few things in the registry, etc. nothing
dramatic.

I have 2 modems an internal USR 56K winmodem and an external 28.8 USR
Sportster. I use the external one for GPL-VROC at 26400 bps with all
settings as recommended by the experts. Anyway, now I have no access to Dial
Up Networking and my old shortcuts to the GPL modem have died. The DUN for
the other modem still works - Wierd... I even uninstalled and re-installed
DUN itself but I still can't get it to open.

But I found the old GPL DUN inside the Network config and defaulted the GPL
modem so I could trigger it to start up when I opened a network app. It
worked and getting into a race is no problem, but after about 10 minutes
give or take, the sound of the car's engine stops (although the Tach says
it's still running) and I can still hear my wheels screetch and other cars'
engines. Then about 20-30 seconds later my GPL modem kills the connection,
but my car still runs the track and I get a message saying something like
"10049: Problem with the network connection" and I get rising Q bar until it
boots me out a few seconds later.

At first I didn't think the sound and disco problem were related, but it has
happened 4 times in exactly the same way. BTW, most of those races were well
attended (12-19 drivers?). I dialed down the connect speed to 24000 bps, but
it didn't help.

I then tried a race with 5 other drivers with my winmodem at 49333 bps (not
VROC optimized - compressions on, etc) and all went well. ??!!!??

Anyway, I hope someone has some ideas, because I don't. Can't figure out how
the engine sound is tied to a connection problem. Or maybe that starts the
trouble...Should I just revert to the winmodem with VROC optimized settings?

HELP

Ray

System Specs:
Dell XPS T450 - P-III 100 MHz bus
160 Mb RAM (was 96 until yesterday)
Voodoo3 3000 AGP with latest drivers
Turtle Beach Montego II S/C
Win98

by **Laurence Wilme** » Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:25:27

The engine sound is also the first thing to go for me if I'm racing
late and forget my scheduled tasks. Scandisk cuts in if I haven't
cancelled it - the only effect I notice is a very quiet engine. So I
assumed it was a memory problem.
Dunno if that helps,

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by **David Ewin** » Sun, 18 Feb 2001 03:54:06

> after about 10 minutes
> give or take, the sound of the car's engine stops (although the Tach says
> it's still running) and I can still hear my wheels screetch and other cars'
> engines. Then about 20-30 seconds later my GPL modem kills the connection,
> but my car still runs the track and I get a message saying something like
> "10049: Problem with the network connection" and I get rising Q bar until it
> boots me out a few seconds later.

> At first I didn't think the sound and disco problem were related, but it has
> happened 4 times in exactly the same way. BTW, most of those races were well
> attended (12-19 drivers?). I dialed down the connect speed to 24000 bps, but
> it didn't help.

> ISystem Specs:
> Dell XPS T450 - P-III 100 MHz bus
> 160 Mb RAM (was 96 until yesterday)
> Voodoo3 3000 AGP with latest drivers
> Turtle Beach Montego II S/C
> Win98

Ray,

I don't have an answer for you, but the exact same thing has happened to me a
few times lately - not the DUN problems, but the loss of only the engine sound
followed by the network connection error.

My system is fairly similar to yours -

Dell XPS-R PII 400 MHz
128 MB RAM
Voodoo3 3000 AGP (I'm one driver revision off the latest, I believe)
Turtle Beach Montego I (Dell OEM version)
Win 98 original
DirectX 7.0A

I'm connecting via a US Robotics modem (not a WinModem) at 26,400.

This just started happening with no modifications to any hardware or drivers.

Let me know if you figure this out.

Dave Ewing

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by **Stephen Smit** » Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:57:09

Hey, Ray,

I, for one, would be interested to hear how you cured (almost all) yer
problems with an aperature-size adjustment. What was it before? What is it
now? (This same issue arose with B-17 II, and was cured by reducing the
aperature from 128 to 64 Mb).

--Steve Smith

by **Ray Bryde** » Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:21:32

Steve,

A while back someone had told me that increasing the aperture size would
help increase the framerate on GeForce (I think?) cards. I have a Voodoo 3
3000 AGP card, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to try it. I did, and it didn't
hurt, but it didn't help either. My system CMOS only has 2 AGP aperture
settings 64 and 256 Mb. I left it at 256 and didn't have a problem until the
RAM upgrade which caused my system to hang at the end of the boot or within
2 minutes thereafter. It took me a while to trace it to my System.ini file,
specifically the line that triggered the display driver:

display.drv=pnpdrvr.drv

Then after some investigative work I figured out the AGP aperture was told
the vid card how much system RAM the card can use. Eureka! I switched it
back and things booted normally again. Except for the new problems described
below.

Cheers,

Ray

> Hey, Ray,

> I, for one, would be interested to hear how you cured (almost all) yer
> problems with an aperature-size adjustment. What was it before? What is
it
> now? (This same issue arose with B-17 II, and was cured by reducing the
> aperature from 128 to 64 Mb).

> --Steve Smith

> > After installing a new 64 Mb card, all hell broke loose trying to get my
> > system running again. I traced it to the AGP aperture size and all is
well
> > now - almost. In my quest to find the solution I booted in safe mode and
> ran
> > Norton WinDoctor which cleaned up a few things in the registry, etc.
> nothing
> > dramatic.

> > I have 2 modems an internal USR 56K winmodem and an external 28.8 USR
> > Sportster. I use the external one for GPL-VROC at 26400 bps with all
> > settings as recommended by the experts. Anyway, now I have no access to
> Dial
> > Up Networking and my old shortcuts to the GPL modem have died. The DUN
for
> > the other modem still works - Wierd... I even uninstalled and
re-installed
> > DUN itself but I still can't get it to open.

> > But I found the old GPL DUN inside the Network config and defaulted the
> GPL
> > modem so I could trigger it to start up when I opened a network app. It
> > worked and getting into a race is no problem, but after about 10 minutes
> > give or take, the sound of the car's engine stops (although the Tach
says
> > it's still running) and I can still hear my wheels screetch and other
> cars'
> > engines. Then about 20-30 seconds later my GPL modem kills the
connection,
> > but my car still runs the track and I get a message saying something
like
> > "10049: Problem with the network connection" and I get rising Q bar
until
> it
> > boots me out a few seconds later.

> > At first I didn't think the sound and disco problem were related, but it
> has
> > happened 4 times in exactly the same way. BTW, most of those races were
> well
> > attended (12-19 drivers?). I dialed down the connect speed to 24000 bps,
> but
> > it didn't help.

> > I then tried a race with 5 other drivers with my winmodem at 49333 bps
> (not
> > VROC optimized - compressions on, etc) and all went well. ??!!!??

> > Anyway, I hope someone has some ideas, because I don't. Can't figure out
> how
> > the engine sound is tied to a connection problem. Or maybe that starts
the
> > trouble...Should I just revert to the winmodem with VROC optimized
> settings?

> > HELP

> > Ray

> > System Specs:
> > Dell XPS T450 - P-III 100 MHz bus
> > 160 Mb RAM (was 96 until yesterday)
> > Voodoo3 3000 AGP with latest drivers
> > Turtle Beach Montego II S/C
> > Win98

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