Well, I found a forum where they talked about compatibility and when I disabled AGP fast writes, the stuttering went away.
BTW, the problem with the DVD and CD burners hasn't gone away. It hung during a reboot and took a couple of tries to get started. Interestingly it restarted after sitting off for ten minutes. It may be heat related. The two PATA drives don't have any fans, so that heat may be drifting to the drives above. The main problem with this hypothesis is that everything works fine, even burns, once it's booted. Another idea I have is to uninstall the disk controllers and let them reinstall with a reboot. I find it interesting that there is nowhere in the BIOS to refresh ESCD. It must do it every boot?
Steve
On 10/23/05, Stan Zaske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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