Screen Freeze.....................

darkheart · February 16th, 2003, 06:25 PM

I just knew I'd be back on here sometime just not this soon.
Okay (deep breath........) I have just recently purchased a new motherboard and processor XP2100+ & K7S5A. The processor wasnt picked up by the Bios correctly as it was confusing it with an XP1500+ but we have now got over that hurdle thanks to the Genius of this forum and its members. Im running windows 98 MX400 ge- force 2 graphics (pci) PC133 512 mb of sdram 300 watt psu. I have found that when running my favourite first person shooter be it unreal tornament or quake3 wolfenstein that after a short while everything comes to a stand still. The screen freezes and nothing I do will unlock it (CTRL ALT Delete) included. Could it be another BIOS setting that needs tweaked??
I knew I'd have a few teething problems with this board but Im tearing my hair out now. Help???

griobhta · February 16th, 2003, 06:44 PM

hmm have the same just got board havnt really tried many games. Played morrowind for a few minutes to check what it looked like with a radeon 9500pro played fine but when i load ut the system locks up when i try and change the screen resolution up to 1024x768. Havent tried playing the game on the standard resolution too busy. be interested to see if you get some sorta answer for this. I'm running xp.

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cracked · February 16th, 2003, 06:45 PM

i dont know really what is wrong, but i would guess that it is probably NOT a bios problem. afaik....

drew

jerrygarcia · February 16th, 2003, 06:48 PM

I would imagine it's your MX pci card that is holding you back. I run the same board with an XP 1800+, 384 mb PC133 and a GF3 Ti 500 64 with no troubles at all on UT2K3. I also run it with an XP 1700+, 512mb PC2100 and a GF3 Ti 200 64.

How's your heat?

I would recommend a GF4 Ti 4xxx AGP series card and I bet your problems would go away.

griobhta · February 16th, 2003, 06:50 PM

An MX is well up to handeling UT and the worst it would would do AFAIK would slow down not completely lock up the system.

My MX ran UT and wolfenstein fine with a duron 700

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darkheart · February 16th, 2003, 06:51 PM

How do you mean hows your heat and how do i go about checking the system for that kind of a problem. I never thought it would be the card as I used this PCI on my older board with a celeron processor without a hitch

jerrygarcia · February 16th, 2003, 06:54 PM

Go into your bios at start up and look for your CPU temp and case temps. It's in one of the selections on the right. I just don't remember what it's called.

darkheart · February 16th, 2003, 06:56 PM

I dont want to go off line just yet, however, what is an ideal temperature for a cpu etc???

jerrygarcia · February 16th, 2003, 07:09 PM

Under 40c would be great. Under 60c is the very top you want to be. The cooler it is, the faster it is.

darkheart · February 16th, 2003, 07:14 PM

Ok Guys CPU Fan speed is 4963 ish... System Temp is 23c/73f and CPU is sitting at 41c/105f is this reasonable?!!