CTD in Alfa147mod/F12002 :(

Now was the time for it...tonight I upgraded my PC from: Athlon 1000 to a AMD XP 1800+... 256MB to 512MB (PC133) Win98SE is running OK...RM, STCC, V8C, SCGT etc is running fine... But the Alfa147mod for F1-2002 Crashes To Desktop occasionally... ...especialley on Magny-Cours and N�rburgring (short/modern) I upgraded the driver for my Geforce2 MX-400 from version 6.50 (!) which have run on my system for ages (2 years or so)...to 21.83, 22.50, 30.82 etc...and back to 6.50...but nothing seems to work...:( any ideas? -- Venlig hilsen / Best regards Thore Sorensen - [email hidden]

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> Now was the time for it...tonight I upgraded my PC from: > > Athlon 1000 to a AMD XP 1800+... > 256MB to 512MB (PC133) > > Win98SE is running OK...RM, STCC, V8C, SCGT etc is running fine... > But the Alfa147mod for F1-2002 Crashes To Desktop occasionally... > ...especialley on Magny-Cours and N�rburgring (short/modern) > > I upgraded the driver for my Geforce2 MX-400 from version 6.50 (!) which > have run on my system for ages (2 years or so)...to 21.83, 22.50, 30.82 > etc...and back to 6.50...but nothing seems to work...:( > > any ideas?

Upgrading systems often brings in unstabilities. I had a huge problem last Febuary when I moved up. Several things could be happening. 1. When adding the cpu & memory, your system may have needed some new files for them to properly intergrate with your system. 2. You may have had new files installed automatically that overwrote critical files from your previous setup. 3. In changing so many drivers, you may have not completely removed the old ones and the various versions are all fighting it out amonst themselves. 4. Myself, and several others have found the new memory to be partially defective.(it works sometimes and crashes others) So first things first. the whql 30.8x drivers should be very stable. So make sure you properly remove any old driver first. then do a check for files that start with NV i.e. find nv*.* and delete those and use a utility like detonator destroyer to kill any remaining lost files. then re-install the 30.82 or .83's whatever the whql version is. If you still get lockups, I'd take out the new memory and see if the lockups disappear, if they do...that's a good indicator of bad memory, there are some utils that check memory but I don't have any experience with them. also check for irq conflicts. When you put in the new stuff, windows may have moved stuff around, video and sound cards should NOT share irq's with other devices. Keep asking if we don't solve the problems. dave henrie --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.422 / Virus Database: 237 - Release Date: 11/20/02

Nice advice Dave....my brother is having similar problems...crashes and freezes for no reason. How do you change the IRQ positions..? At present he has GF3 ti 200 and his USB Controller on IRQ 19... We think we have narrowed his problem down to his ADSL modem,Alcatel Speedtouch USB. His pc kept crashing etc,his modem speed was down to 15/20kb/sec... Then i leant him my pc....same result...crashing,freezing. His pc is here with me at the moment...not crashed once or frozen. Only problem i have found is that as he said...it doesnt often restart or switch off properly...2 out of 10 i reckon....this obviously leads to constant Scandisk at Start up. So as the modem is the only common link....we have settled on that being the problem...sound right..? :) But i would like all his hardware to have different IRQ's.. TIA AD

"Aidee" > > So as the modem is the only common link....we have settled on that beingthe

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> problem...sound right..? :) > > But i would like all his hardware to have different IRQ's.. > > TIA > > AD

The sharing of an irq is possibly the problem. There are two ways of changing the irq. Move the card to another slot or use the windows device manager to re-assign the irq resources. The second method is not always possible as some hardware drivers will not allow moving the irq. Generally the video card takes the #11 irq. so that's odd that it's assigned to #19. The desparate approach is to yank all the cards out(after removing them from the device manager first) and then installing ONLY the video card. Then the sound card...then any other cards one by one. Good Luck dave henrie --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.422 / Virus Database: 237 - Release Date: 11/20/02

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:41:42 +0100, Thore <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>Now was the time for it...tonight I upgraded my PC from: > >Athlon 1000 to a AMD XP 1800+... >256MB to 512MB (PC133) > >Win98SE is running OK...RM, STCC, V8C, SCGT etc is running fine... >But the Alfa147mod for F1-2002 Crashes To Desktop occasionally... >...especialley on Magny-Cours and N�rburgring (short/modern) > >I upgraded the driver for my Geforce2 MX-400 from version 6.50 (!) which >have run on my system for ages (2 years or so)...to 21.83, 22.50, 30.82 >etc...and back to 6.50...but nothing seems to work...:( > >any ideas?

I think I have almost solved the problem....thanx for help, Dave :) In Bios I set the CPU(XP1800+) to 1150 MHz instead of 1533, and set the mem.speed to 100 MHz instead of 133, and tonight I will put other PC133 mem-modules in it and try...(maybe it was "remarked" PC133 instead of PC100?) If this don't help I may say: I don't know why the Asus A7V133 can't handle the XP's...Bios is version 1009, and there should be XP-support from version 1007... I'll let u know... -- Venlig hilsen / Best regards Thore Sorensen - DK-2700 Bronshoj (Z = spamfilter)

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> If this don't help I may say: I don't know why the Asus A7V133 can't > handle the XP's...Bios is version 1009, and there should be XP-support > from version 1007... > > I'll let u know... > >

I've built 3 pc's using an Asus A7V133 MB, all w/1009 bios. Everyone of them has been unstable with CPU's faster than 1 GHZ. I've tried, 1.0Ghz Athlons, 1.4Ghz Athlons, 1.33 Athlons, 850Mhz Durons and 900 Mhz Durons. These machines all had 256 megs of Corsair cas2 pc133 mem. The 1.0Ghz Athlon, and all the Durons have run fine, but the faster chips were always unstable. I replaced: The first Asus w/ the 1.33 Athlon, with an EPOX 8kha+ and Corsair DDR mem, Rock solid. The second Asus, w/ the 1.4 Athlon, with a DFI-AD76 w/generic DDR mem, Rock Solid. The three Asus boards now have their Durons and 1.0 Athlon back in place and are running great. I've since replaced the 1.33Ghz Athlon w/ a XP2400+ (on the Epox) and it runs perfect, so I am know looking for a home for the 1.33 but I can guarantee it WILL NOT be an ASUS A7V133! Bob

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:01:42 -0500, RDS <[email hidden]> wrote: >I've since replaced the 1.33Ghz Athlon w/ a XP2400+ (on the Epox) and it >runs perfect, so I am know looking for a home for the 1.33 but I can >guarantee it WILL NOT be an ASUS A7V133! Hmmm, at work I'm using an A7V133 (BIOS 1005A) with 1.33 Athlon for quite some time now without any problems..... Remco