VisionTek GF4 4600 crashing

I'm just wondering if anyone may know what's going on with my pc. I have a : P4 2.0a NW (not o'clocked) Asus P4B266 mobo Bios 1005 768 mb PC 2100 Crucial DDR ram VisionTek GF4 Ti4600 with v.28.32 drivers SB Audigy, using latest drivers dated 1/21/02 I also just bought a LianLi PC70 case and a new Enermax 350w psu. thought I needed more cooling My problem is, when I play Nascar2002, my computer crashes. When I say crash, this is what happens, I lose the video signal to the monitor. The little green light on the monitor turns orange signifying loss of video signal. What is strange about this is, it seems to only happen when I'm hosting a race, not when I join a race. I'm not real good at troubleshooting this, obviously, but it seems like maybe a video card, or nic card heating problem? I'm not sure if it only happens in this game, because its the only one I can sit down and play for this long period of time:) Any ideas? tia Gary

Just some general thoughts: 1. Do you have the latest patches/updates for the game itself? It might be a glitch in the multi-player mode. 2. You may need updated drivers for the NIC card. Might want to look at the web site of the card's manufacturer and see if there are updated drivers. Also, I've read in this group that some are experiencing problems with the 28.32 drivers for you vid card. Maybe try an earlier version of the drivers. Hope these ideas might help. -- GearJammer -- Asus A7V266-E Board Rev. 1.07./ Award BIOS ver. 1007.002 beta Enermax Whisper EG365P-VE(FC) PSU (350W) AMD AthlonXP 1500+ @ 1712MHz (12.5*137MHz) Idle = 38~45C (NAV/NIS in background) Load = 46~48C (same as idle plus SetiDriver, SetiSpy, SetiCLC) System = 29~31C (depending on room temp) Volcano7 HSF w/ AS2 (copper insert lapped) 256MB Samsung DDR-RAM (PC2100 and aggressive mem timings) ATi RagePro Turbo SB Live! 5.1 Netgear FA310TX NIC WDC WD20020EB HDD E-IDE DVD-ROM DVD8210 (no name) WinME -- "GLeger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ELbs8.32909$[email hidden]... > I'm just wondering if anyone may know what's going on with my pc. > I have a : > > P4 2.0a NW (not o'clocked) > Asus P4B266 mobo Bios 1005 > 768 mb PC 2100 Crucial DDR ram > VisionTek GF4 Ti4600 with v.28.32 drivers > SB Audigy, using latest drivers dated 1/21/02 > I also just bought a LianLi PC70 case and a new Enermax 350w psu. thought I > needed more cooling > > My problem is, when I play Nascar2002, my computer crashes. When I say > crash, this is what happens, I lose the video signal to the monitor. The > little green light on the monitor turns orange signifying loss of video > signal. > What is strange about this is, it seems to only happen when I'm hosting a > race, not when I join a race. > I'm not real good at troubleshooting this, obviously, but it seems like > maybe a video card, or nic card heating problem? > I'm not sure if it only happens in this game, because its the only one I can > sit down and play for this long period of time:) > > Any ideas? > > tia > Gary > >

Make sue you have the updated VIA 4.38a 4in1's. They have updated the agp driver. marx GLeger <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ELbs8.32909$[email hidden]...

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> I'm just wondering if anyone may know what's going on with my pc. > I have a : > > P4 2.0a NW (not o'clocked) > Asus P4B266 mobo Bios 1005 > 768 mb PC 2100 Crucial DDR ram > VisionTek GF4 Ti4600 with v.28.32 drivers > SB Audigy, using latest drivers dated 1/21/02 > I also just bought a LianLi PC70 case and a new Enermax 350w psu. thought

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> needed more cooling > > My problem is, when I play Nascar2002, my computer crashes. When I say > crash, this is what happens, I lose the video signal to the monitor. The > little green light on the monitor turns orange signifying loss of video > signal. > What is strange about this is, it seems to only happen when I'm hosting a > race, not when I join a race. > I'm not real good at troubleshooting this, obviously, but it seems like > maybe a video card, or nic card heating problem? > I'm not sure if it only happens in this game, because its the only one I

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> sit down and play for this long period of time:) > > Any ideas? > > tia > Gary > >

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This sounds very much like the GF4/P4 standby problem - I take it that the monitor goes into standby and the pc is running but no life? As far as i can tell this is a heat/cpu issue. I ran through some things and got rid of this problem in the end: Reseat your heatsink of the cpu - sounds funny I know but my pc stopped the black screen problem when I did this properly - I lapped the cpu as well as mine had a slightly concave surface. If you dont fancy this try using more thermal compound than you would normally - in effect use more to take up any non-contact areas on the cpu-heatsink interface. You could try an uprated heatsink and fan unit but I use the retail one running my 1.6a at 2.3 without problems now. Try also a few more volts to your ddr memory and make sure that the memory isnt getting too warm Improve case airflow if you can. I dont know whether it was a combination of the above or either on its own that cured my problem but mine is now running flawlessly. "GLeger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ELbs8.32909$[email hidden]...

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> I'm just wondering if anyone may know what's going on with my pc. > I have a : > > P4 2.0a NW (not o'clocked) > Asus P4B266 mobo Bios 1005 > 768 mb PC 2100 Crucial DDR ram > VisionTek GF4 Ti4600 with v.28.32 drivers > SB Audigy, using latest drivers dated 1/21/02 > I also just bought a LianLi PC70 case and a new Enermax 350w psu. thought

I

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> needed more cooling > > My problem is, when I play Nascar2002, my computer crashes. When I say > crash, this is what happens, I lose the video signal to the monitor. The > little green light on the monitor turns orange signifying loss of video > signal. > What is strange about this is, it seems to only happen when I'm hosting a > race, not when I join a race. > I'm not real good at troubleshooting this, obviously, but it seems like > maybe a video card, or nic card heating problem? > I'm not sure if it only happens in this game, because its the only one I

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> sit down and play for this long period of time:) > > Any ideas? > > tia > Gary > >

I'm pretty sure it's that Enermax PS. I had problems with my 350w Enermax not suppplying enough juice to the +5v line and repleced it with a 400w Enermax to fix it. Check in your bios to see what the output reading is to the +5v line. "GLeger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ELbs8.32909$[email hidden]...

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> I'm just wondering if anyone may know what's going on with my pc. > I have a : > > P4 2.0a NW (not o'clocked) > Asus P4B266 mobo Bios 1005 > 768 mb PC 2100 Crucial DDR ram > VisionTek GF4 Ti4600 with v.28.32 drivers > SB Audigy, using latest drivers dated 1/21/02 > I also just bought a LianLi PC70 case and a new Enermax 350w psu. thought

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> needed more cooling > > My problem is, when I play Nascar2002, my computer crashes. When I say > crash, this is what happens, I lose the video signal to the monitor. The > little green light on the monitor turns orange signifying loss of video > signal. > What is strange about this is, it seems to only happen when I'm hosting a > race, not when I join a race. > I'm not real good at troubleshooting this, obviously, but it seems like > maybe a video card, or nic card heating problem? > I'm not sure if it only happens in this game, because its the only one I

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> sit down and play for this long period of time:) > > Any ideas? > > tia > Gary > >

What is the 5v on the E400w?, and what motherboard? What was the 5v with the 350w? Brad... "Camus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > I'm pretty sure it's that Enermax PS. I had problems with my 350w Enermax > not suppplying enough juice to the +5v line and repleced it with a 400w > Enermax to fix it. Check in your bios to see what the output reading is to > the +5v line. >

"Brad" <spamme@you#$#%#%> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > What is the 5v on the E400w?, and what motherboard? What was the 5v withthe > 350w? Yikes! I made a big mistake there. I replaced it with a 400w *Antec*, not Enermax. I'll never buy Enermax again. As for your question, I'm going from memory on the Enermax 300w PS, but it was different depending on what vid card I used, with Geforce2 it was lower than with Radeon 8500. I think it was around 4.78 or something, on the Antec it is 5.1, always.

That's funny, my Enermax 350 is putting out 4.78V. It isn't causing any problems right now though. Perhaps when I upgrade from 1.2 ghz to a XP2100 I will have some problems? Brad... "Camus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > "Brad" <spamme@you#$#%#%> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > What is the 5v on the E400w?, and what motherboard? What was the 5v with > the > > 350w? > > Yikes! I made a big mistake there. I replaced it with a 400w *Antec*, not > Enermax. I'll never buy Enermax again. As for your question, I'm going

from > memory on the Enermax 300w PS, but it was different depending on what vid > card I used, with Geforce2 it was lower than with Radeon 8500. I think it > was around 4.78 or something, on the Antec it is 5.1, always. > >

Gordon, I used the stock thermal pad that was on the HSF. I bought the retail cpu, and it came with that. Do you think I need to peel off that thermal pad and put compound now? That stock fan looks really nice, but... What do you mean by, lapped the cpu? I'm not really sure how to do that, as far as adding volts to the ddr memory. Thanks Gary "Gordon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3cb19291$0$237$[email hidden]...

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> This sounds very much like the GF4/P4 standby problem - I take it that the > monitor goes into standby and the pc is running but no life? > > As far as i can tell this is a heat/cpu issue. > > I ran through some things and got rid of this problem in the end: > Reseat your heatsink of the cpu - sounds funny I know but my pc stopped

the > black screen problem when I did this properly - I lapped the cpu as wellas > mine had a slightly concave surface. If you dont fancy this try using more > thermal compound than you would normally - in effect use more to take upany

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> non-contact areas on the cpu-heatsink interface. > You could try an uprated heatsink and fan unit but I use the retail one > running my 1.6a at 2.3 without problems now. > Try also a few more volts to your ddr memory and make sure that the memory > isnt getting too warm > Improve case airflow if you can. > > I dont know whether it was a combination of the above or either on its own > that cured my problem but mine is now running flawlessly. > > > "GLeger" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:ELbs8.32909$[email hidden]... > > I'm just wondering if anyone may know what's going on with my pc. > > I have a : > > > > P4 2.0a NW (not o'clocked) > > Asus P4B266 mobo Bios 1005 > > 768 mb PC 2100 Crucial DDR ram > > VisionTek GF4 Ti4600 with v.28.32 drivers > > SB Audigy, using latest drivers dated 1/21/02 > > I also just bought a LianLi PC70 case and a new Enermax 350w psu.

thought > I > > needed more cooling > > > > My problem is, when I play Nascar2002, my computer crashes. When I say > > crash, this is what happens, I lose the video signal to the monitor.The > > little green light on the monitor turns orange signifying loss of video > > signal. > > What is strange about this is, it seems to only happen when I'm hostinga

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> > race, not when I join a race. > > I'm not real good at troubleshooting this, obviously, but it seems like > > maybe a video card, or nic card heating problem? > > I'm not sure if it only happens in this game, because its the only one I > can > > sit down and play for this long period of time:) > > > > Any ideas? > > > > tia > > Gary > > > > > > >

"Brad" <spamme@you#$#%#%> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>... > That's funny, my Enermax 350 is putting out 4.78V. It isn't causing any > problems right now though. Perhaps when I upgrade from 1.2 ghz to a XP2100 I > will have some problems? > > Brad... > I doubt you will have probs. Im running a P4 2 gig , Geforce4 Ti4600 and running a Enermax 350 ps. No probs at all. I think his prob was an isolated one.

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> "Camus" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > "Brad" <spamme@you#$#%#%> wrote in message > > news:[email hidden]... > > > What is the 5v on the E400w?, and what motherboard? What was the 5v with > the > > > 350w? > > > > Yikes! I made a big mistake there. I replaced it with a 400w *Antec*, not > > Enermax. I'll never buy Enermax again. As for your question, I'm going > from > > memory on the Enermax 300w PS, but it was different depending on what vid > > card I used, with Geforce2 it was lower than with Radeon 8500. I think it > > was around 4.78 or something, on the Antec it is 5.1, always. > > > >