GPL Online problem

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

"Ray Bryden" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:96iaa2$cri$[email hidden]... > After installing a new 64 Mb card, all hell broke loose trying toget my > system running again. I traced it to the AGP aperture size and allis well > now - almost. In my quest to find the solution I booted in safe modeand 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 28.8USR > 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 accessto Dial > Up Networking and my old shortcuts to the GPL modem have died. TheDUN for > the other modem still works - Wierd... I even uninstalled andre-installed > DUN itself but I still can't get it to open. > > But I found the old GPL DUN inside the Network config and defaultedthe 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 10minutes > give or take, the sound of the car's engine stops (although the Tachsays > it's still running) and I can still hear my wheels screetch andother cars' > engines. Then about 20-30 seconds later my GPL modem kills theconnection, > but my car still runs the track and I get a message saying somethinglike > "10049: Problem with the network connection" and I get rising Q baruntil 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 raceswere well > attended (12-19 drivers?). I dialed down the connect speed to 24000bps, but > it didn't help. > > I then tried a race with 5 other drivers with my winmodem at 49333bps (not > VROC optimized - compressions on, etc) and all went well. ??!!!?? > > Anyway, I hope someone has some ideas, because I don't. Can't figureout how > the engine sound is tied to a connection problem. Or maybe thatstarts the > trouble...Should I just revert to the winmodem with VROC optimizedsettings?

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> > 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 > >

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, -- Laurence Wilmer [email hidden] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.231 / Virus Database: 112 - Release Date: 12/02/01

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> 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 -- ***************************************************** David A. Ewing Xilinx Boulder [email hidden] *****************************************************

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 Ray Bryden <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:96iaa2$cri$[email hidden]... > 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 andran > 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 toDial > 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 theGPL > 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 othercars' > 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 untilit > boots me out a few seconds later. > > At first I didn't think the sound and disco problem were related, but ithas > happened 4 times in exactly the same way. BTW, most of those races werewell > 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 outhow > the engine sound is tied to a connection problem. Or maybe that starts the > trouble...Should I just revert to the winmodem with VROC optimizedsettings?

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> > 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 > > >

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 Stephen Smith <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9fij6.80288$[email hidden]... > 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 isit

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> now? (This same issue arose with B-17 II, and was cured by reducing the > aperature from 128 to 64 Mb). > > --Steve Smith > > Ray Bryden <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:96iaa2$cri$[email hidden]... > > 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

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> > 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 andre-installed

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> > 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 theconnection, > > but my car still runs the track and I get a message saying somethinglike > > "10049: Problem with the network connection" and I get rising Q baruntil

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> 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

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> > 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 > > > > > > > >