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  • Problems with my Riva TNT2

    I have Asus TVR-3800 with the riva tnt2
    and my problem is that my computer
    crashes when I'm playing 3d accelerated
    games. I have tested it on Half Life, Turok 2, Extreme G2 and Pretzel Pete. And all of them crash when I've been playing for a while. I got an 8cm (about 3 inch) cooler that is placed under the card on the card slot, but it didn't help. Should I just return the card and maybe get another one
    of the same kind or some other graphics card.

    TIA,
    Rixxx.

  • #2
    What kind of motherboard, devices, operating system, etc. do you have?

    Matt

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    • #3
      Also,
      What kind of crash? Just freeze, or back to windows, or do things look strange before a lockup?
      Have you tried playing with the case off?

      -Wombat


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      503+ rev 1.2a, 128MB PC100 RAM, K6-2/350@400,RH6 & Win98,G200 Millenium (SGRAM), no plans to buy a G400



      Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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      • #4
        i have the ASUS P5a motherboard.
        Oh well, i got this problem fixed.
        I called the store I bought it from
        and they said:
        1) Update your drivers.
        and then i downloaded the drivers from
        nVidia (instead of ASUS)
        2) Add Cooling
        So I bought a cooler that is placed
        under the graphics card.
        3) Take the "AGP Turbo mode" off from BIOS
        And I disabled that.

        After that my computer worked, but my
        Win 98 crashed and I had to fdisk the
        whole damn disk and reinstall everything
        and I even lost all my work. My Windows
        went totally strange, I couldn't open
        any program. Well here I am, downloading and installing my programs again.

        Shit Happens.
        -Rixxx.

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        • #5
          yes... I had lots of problems with RIVA 128 & TNT,TNT2 cards...first U must upgrade your
          TNT2 card to latest bios , then U should first install the Nvidia DETONATOR drivers latest ofcourse... be aware when reinstaling WIN95 mabe WIN98, U could see a BLACK screan & no WINDOWS if this aparse..reboot in safe mode go to display PROP. there u will se under REFRESH rate :UNKNOWN...SET 75Hz and boot to WIN95/98 again then install the latest Nvidia drivers after that u can install ASUS drivers & get the driver utilites working

          watch for NEW drivers & upgrade your card when ewer U can..

          PIII450,128mb,P2b,MATROX-MILLG40032,SB.Live..

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          • #6
            Slightly off-topic... but do you see a window on your TV-screen if you want to watch a DVD using the card's TV-out?

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