Geforce 2 MX Lock Ups (?)

#1 Acid Twin

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Posted 28 March 2001 - 12:35 PM

Grr, playing half life for a few hours (great game) and boom, everything goes weird and locks up.
I rebooted and now i cannot play any games using DD, D3D and OpenGL.

I'm guessing i need to replace the Card? (replacment has been sent)

If you have any ideas on what it could be pwease let me know,

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Creative Geforce 2 MX <never overclocked>
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#2 Brian Frank

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Posted 28 March 2001 - 05:20 PM

What makes you say its the card?
If the processor is getting too hot, that can cause lockups. What motherboard are you using?

Try this: in bios, manually configure the AGP drive strength. Set it like EA or higher and then see if its a problem.

Try different drivers.

What youve put up gives me no reason to see why the card would be bad.

Just because you cant play games in certain modes doesnt mean the video card is necessarily bad. Some of Windows system could of hiccupped, and if you would just reinstall the drivers, that might be the only thing left to do.

#3 pimpin_228

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Posted 25 April 2001 - 06:14 AM

Well what drivers did you use cause i just use the drivers that came with the card and i heard the 12.00 are good thanks to brian but there are still in beta form if i am correct but give it a try but i nedd sytem specs though to help you out theere
i got a
athlon 850
abit mobo
geforce 2 mx
256
w2k
and i haven't had any problems so list them specs please