Never had a problem with my K8N Neo2 Platinum with Geforce 6600GT and
WinXP SP2. I've been playing with the new FEAR demo lately and it runs
good on it. @:)>
Steve Tomporowski wrote:
Nevermind, found it. There's a basic incompatibility between Nvidia 6
series cards and NF3. You have to disable AGP fast writes and things
are much better now, at least in UT2004. I'll see if that might have
been affecting the drives.....
Steve
On 10/23/05, *Greg Sevart* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
wrote:
Several things...
1. Try Windows XP. Win2k sucks for gaming, and I guarantee you that
driver/hardware/software compatibility testing is less extensive
than it is
for XP.
2. Update system BIOS, NF3 drivers, and video drivers
3. Are you using any additional PATA controller?
4. Overall, to me, it sounds like a horked Windows installation.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Tomporowski
To: The Hardware List
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:33 AM
Subject: [H] K8N Neo Platinum Problems
This is a system I built last year: K8N Neo Platium MB, BFG 128M 6800
Video, A64 3400+, Two SATA Drives, Two PATA Drives, CD Burner, DVD
Burner,
430 Watt (Old) Antec Power Supply. It has a couple of problems:
1) Initially this system was set up with 2 SATA drives and a DVD
drive.
Consolidating systems, I added the two PATA drives, then after a
while,
tried to add the CD and DVD burners. For most of the
troubleshooting time,
Win2k Sp4 would hang at the Loading Windows screen (rolling blue
bar would
stop). Suddenly on a reboot, it started working. Now, for the
most part it
boots completely, but every once in a while will hang. Tried to
enable
bootlog on one of the hangs, but got nothing, no file at all. Tried
replacing cable and each drive separately. Without either there
was no
problem.
2) UT2004--This system works worse than my NF2 with a 5900 Nvidia.
Basically it stutters, if I move in one direction and look
straight ahead,
no problem. However if I try to strafe or turn, I get several rapid
stutters of the image. I've even reduced the detail to the same
as the NF2
system, no improvement. Nothing extra running in Process
Manager. Nvidia
drivers at 7803, don't know the current status of the NF3 drivers,
might be
original as well as the BIOS being original.
The only things I can think of right now is to update the BIOS and
the MB
drives.
Is there a know problem here?
Thanks....Steve
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