As a guy who loves gaming, I feel for you. I just got the new Nvidia chip
myself, however I couldn't afford the 64 meg version, but man it is sweet.
But do you want to hear the funny thing, I have the VIA chipset and it still
works!!! Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance RULES on it.
Anyway, sorry about that....that's why I haven't gone up to Win2k on my
home machine yet, it's just not supported enough.
Sorry everyone:)
Kev
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<RANT>
WHATEVER you do - DON'T GO ADDING ANY NEW FUNKY HARDWARE!!!
I just got a brand new ELSA GLADIAC 920 graphics card - built on the new
nvidia Geoforce 3 chipset with 64mb on board DDR SDRAM! (I can hear any
gamers going YUMMMM)!!
So - slip it in to my (not a year old - PIII800 256M RAM Win2K) PC and the
damn thing wont work - it switches video modes to go in to a game and turns
the screen in to stand by mode (NOW THERE'S A BLACK SCREEN FOR YA!!)!! DAMN
THING!! You then have to physically turn the machine off!! Support in their
infinite wisdom told me to upgrade my 4in1 drivers for the chipset(VIA), and
flash the BIOS(AWARD)! Not a very inviting solution - as a BIOS flash, if
gone wrong, will fry your BIOS chip, meaning that you'll need a new
motherboard! They then go on to tell me they won't support this. Call up PC
support - any they won't support it either!
So there I am raring to get my hands on the ultimate PC gamer experience,
and decided to do as they recommend - I updated my VIA 4in1, and flashed the
BIOS - and guess what - the f*$^&r STILL WONT WORK!!! I installed the NVIDIA
driver - nope.. Installed the Win2K SP2 - nope.. try to tweak the settings
for screen res etc. - nope.. Made sure that there were no conflicts with
IRQ's etc. - nope..
And at this very moment - IT STILL WON'T WORK!!
DON'T GO THROUGH THE HASSLE!!!
</RANT>
Totally off-topic I know as you wouldn't dream of playing games on a
database server - but I needed to vent a little there - I've spent hours on
this last night!! And will later I suppose..
Any graphics experts out there? PC support etc.?
Mark (Gonna go and cry now) Leith
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HUMM, Our last unscheduled Unix down was due to the local power utility
whereas
the last unscheduled down on NT was due to the "Blue screen of death" (Ok,
so
the screen is Black on 2000).
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