Matrox woes (again)

[Scout255]

with the new drivers i cannot do anything.

As it had done before, it freezes after the login or sometime after that (it depends, but it DOES freeze) I used to have this problem before i racked up a mighty phone bill with matrox with no help granted by them (yes, i actually spent $132.34 trying to get my $450 card working... stooped ain't it)
sooo, since they are closed for 4 days straight (clever timeing of my system crashes isn't it?) i was hopeing you guys could help me....
my stats are as follows
celery @ 400
g400 MAX
abit bp6 @ agp 1X (2X freezes instantly)
256 meg pc-133 ram
SB-Live! Value w/ liveware 2.1 (i am NOT paying for liveware 3.0 yet)
3 Com NIC w/ newest drivers that kruzin showed me b4
1 quantum fireball plus KA
1 Nec thingymabober @ 1.0 gigs
Floppy
creative 32X CD-ROM
250 Watt PS.

Everything has its own irq, so oi have no idea what it is
to quote the beatles
PLEASE! PLEASE HEEEEEEEEEEELP ME!!! HEEEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
that is all...

[Kruzin]

http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum5/HTML/005078.html

[paulcs]

As you know, a lot of problems have arisen with Abit boards and Soundblaster Live cards.

Have you tried reseating your board in the AGP slot? Make sure it is *really* in there and aligned properly. Be firm.

You could try removing your soundcard's drivers and the board itself to see if that's causing the problem. You might consider removing all registry entries as well.

As a last resort, there's always the Windows reinstall.

I'm really suspicious about Abit's AGP slot and the G400. It just seems to come up all the time. The only problem is the Soundblaster Live always seems to be there as well, and it's getting hard to point fingers.

Good luck.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Scout255]

I got one thing i wanna say!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
its stable now! AND ITS @ AGP 2X W00000000HOOOOOOOOOO!

[SPSUguy]

Ummmm... what did you do to fix it?

BTW, i have an abit board and have had absolutly not probs...

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Abit BH6, Celeron 450, Matrox G400 32mb "MAX", 256mb ram, IBM 10GB, DVD 5x, MX300

[Scout255]

Fuc it....
now, my computer INSTANTLY freezes no matter WHAT i do
it is only stable with 89 mhz w/ 2/3's bus speed, however, my cpu's aren't.
it is stable AT NO OTHER BUS SPEEDS!
not 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74 (it goes up to 100) at ALL agp dividers (2/3 and 1/1)
this royally bites
even forceing both agp 1X and 2X does nothing!!
HELP!
i have reinserted everything, removed all cards but vid card and it STILL DOES IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOTHING IS OVERCLOCKED!

i found out that the installer some how ****ed up my drivers.
now i can only run in agp 1x, but atleast i can play a game or 2

[This message has been edited by Scout255 (edited 10-10-1999).]

[CrazyBee]

Well, if you are overclocking and at weird bus speeds (anything other than 66 or 100) then you *WILL* encounter problems with your system.

How do you know it is the video card? Man, it could be anything, you are overclocking the PCI bus way beyond spec, the HDs transfer timings are also way off, sheesh...

You might even have a corrupted registry by now.

I would suggest a reinstall since anything can be screwed and either run at 66 or 100 FSB.

CB

[Scout255]

My computer ran stable befor these drivers, i build my system from the gound up, makeing sure each component would run beyond its specs.