Hi all,
Recently upgraded my setup to a 1.2 ghz AMD Athlon on a Via KT133
based motherboard (Chaintech CT-7AJA0), 256mb RAm, V5 5500 64MB AGP
and after a few problems getting everything up and running I thought I
had things sorted out. However, in the last day or so I have twice had
GPL freeze up on me and today N4 also had the same problem. In both
cases the sim freezes with the speakers emitting a loud squealing \
whining noise at the same time.
Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions
for a fix.
Regards
PH
> Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions
> for a fix.
You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his problems
have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember what)
another card anyways, and it worked fine,...
Peter,
I too was having probs with screen freezes on an AMD machine however I am
running a GeForce 2 card. I know every says a reinstall however after many
unsuccessful attempts I refomatted my HD and reinstalled everything. I feel
it may have been the sequence that I reinstalled as a previous reformat was
unsuccessful. I bought up the M/B up to date first with all drivers
installed then Video, sound then wheel.
It could be nothing but worth giving a go.
Russ.
"Jason Hoehn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> > Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions
> > for a fix.
>
> You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his problems
> have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant rememberwhat)
> another card anyways, and it worked fine,...
>
>
It may be as simple as updating to the latest motherboard chipset drivers
for your new motherboard. I swapped a PIII 700 and mobo out for an AMD 1.2
Ghz on Abit Kt7ARAID and after hooking everything up, Windows went through
and installed all the mobo (system) drivers from Win98SE and I had all sorts
of problems. I went to Viatech (mobo chipset maker) and downloaded their
latest chipset/mobo drivers and installed. The mobo came with some drivers
but were older than was available at their website. Upon unstalling the new
drivers (Via 4n1 for me), everything was back fine and dandy. I think my
main problem was with AGP to CPU bridge drivers, most of my problems were
video related.
SR
Russ <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Peter,
>
> I too was having probs with screen freezes on an AMD machine however I am
> running a GeForce 2 card. I know every says a reinstall however after many
> unsuccessful attempts I refomatted my HD and reinstalled everything. Ifeel
> it may have been the sequence that I reinstalled as a previous reformatwas
problems
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> unsuccessful. I bought up the M/B up to date first with all drivers > installed then Video, sound then wheel. > > It could be nothing but worth giving a go. > > Russ. > > > "Jason Hoehn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:fA527.43567$[email hidden]... > > > Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions > > > for a fix. > > > > You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and hisQuoted text (7 lines)
> > have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember > what) > > another card anyways, and it worked fine,... > > > > > >Thanks for that,
However, I dod update the drivers to the latest just last week as I
also had some awful problems initially. I'll just have to see how it
goes over the next few times I run the GPL \ N4 and hope that it turns
out to have been a minor problem.
PH
On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:22:17 GMT, "SimRacer" <[email hidden]>
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>It may be as simple as updating to the latest motherboard chipset drivers >for your new motherboard. I swapped a PIII 700 and mobo out for an AMD 1.2 >Ghz on Abit Kt7ARAID and after hooking everything up, Windows went through >and installed all the mobo (system) drivers from Win98SE and I had all sorts >of problems. I went to Viatech (mobo chipset maker) and downloaded their >latest chipset/mobo drivers and installed. The mobo came with some drivers >but were older than was available at their website. Upon unstalling the new >drivers (Via 4n1 for me), everything was back fine and dandy. I think my >main problem was with AGP to CPU bridge drivers, most of my problems were >video related. > >SR > > >Russ <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:17927.24846$[email hidden]... >> Peter, >> >> I too was having probs with screen freezes on an AMD machine however I am >> running a GeForce 2 card. I know every says a reinstall however after many >> unsuccessful attempts I refomatted my HD and reinstalled everything. I >feel >> it may have been the sequence that I reinstalled as a previous reformat >was >> unsuccessful. I bought up the M/B up to date first with all drivers >> installed then Video, sound then wheel. >> >> It could be nothing but worth giving a go. >> >> Russ. >> >> >> "Jason Hoehn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >> news:fA527.43567$[email hidden]... >> > > Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions >> > > for a fix. >> > >> > You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his >problems >> > have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember >> what) >> > another card anyways, and it worked fine,... >> > >> > >> >> >Unfortunately a new vid card is not an option for me at the moment.
Plus I do like the V5.
PH
On Sun, 08 Jul 2001 22:58:19 GMT, "Jason Hoehn"
<[email hidden]> wrote:
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>> Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions >> for a fix. > >You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his problems >have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember what) >another card anyways, and it worked fine,... >Well, if things get too bad I suppose a re-install is the only option
but this was all put together from scratch with a newly formatted HD
last week so I am hoping that won't be neccesary.
PH
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:12:52 +1000, "Russ" <[email hidden]>
wrote:
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>Peter, > >I too was having probs with screen freezes on an AMD machine however I am >running a GeForce 2 card. I know every says a reinstall however after many >unsuccessful attempts I refomatted my HD and reinstalled everything. I feel >it may have been the sequence that I reinstalled as a previous reformat was >unsuccessful. I bought up the M/B up to date first with all drivers >installed then Video, sound then wheel. > >It could be nothing but worth giving a go. > >Russ. > > >"Jason Hoehn" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:fA527.43567$[email hidden]... >> > Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions >> > for a fix. >> >> You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his problems >> have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember >what) >> another card anyways, and it worked fine,... >> >> >Which version of the VIA 4in1 drivers?
TP
In a later post in this thread you mentioned: "....this was all put
together from scratch with a newly formatted HD last week so I am hoping
that won't be neccesary." If this is a new system I assume you have not had
it going long enough to establish any kind of track record on its general
behavior. You have a VIA KT133 chipset. If you also have a SOUNDBLASTER LIVE
then your troubles could possibly be explained here:
http://viahardware.com/download/george/readme.htm
If this sounds like you then you might try looking at the info here:
http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm
This is for an ABIT KT7/KT7A series but these also have the VIA KT133
(a) chipsets so some of the fixes here may be workable on yours.
"Peter Hooper" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> Hi all, > Recently upgraded my setup to a 1.2 ghz AMD Athlon on a Via KT133 > based motherboard (Chaintech CT-7AJA0), 256mb RAm, V5 5500 64MB AGP > and after a few problems getting everything up and running I thought I > had things sorted out. However, in the last day or so I have twice had > GPL freeze up on me and today N4 also had the same problem. In both > cases the sim freezes with the speakers emitting a loud squealing \ > whining noise at the same time. > > Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions > for a fix. > > Regards > > PHThe 4.32 4 in 1's are the ones I installed last week.
PH
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:35:00 GMT, "Tom Pabst" <[email hidden]>
wrote:
>Which version of the VIA 4in1 drivers?
>
>TP
>
OK many thanks,
I do also have a SBLive so I'll check those out and see how things go
for a few days.
PH
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:09:05 -0400, "Joe L"
<[email hidden]> wrote:
