About to give Up!!

[JW]

Have no Idea!!

Have a Voodoo 2 card on a M747 mother board with a sis 6326 on board video. Creative labs sound Celeron 300 chip. Any time I go to play a game, the intro plays great, menue fine, but as soon as you go to play the game, locks up. I thought hey drivers, have downloaded every Voodoo 2 driver ther is, even used the drivers that came with one of the games, nothing. Installed DirectX8, uninstalled DirectX, and yes you can do that!!

Tried a new videio card instead of the on board, tried a new Voodoo card, tried new sound, over clocked the CPU, under clocked it, changed ram, formated HD changed almost every setting there is and did I mention I had hair B4 all this started!!

I was running a 233MMX system B4 this and it worked fine, my brother in law upgraded to a PIII800 so I bought his old gear, he had a voodoo 2 card runnning in the system B4 this that I hooked up and no problems.

ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE A SUGESTION BESIDES S*&T KICKING OR BURNING IT?????

I am sufering from some serious game lacking here.

One Big CRY for help from one very frustrated TEC

[KWB Teck]

Check to see if you have full hardware acceleration on for the Voodo. If so try setting it to none.

I had a very similar expierence with MS Baseball 2001. Seems they know the problems there, and that was their recommended work around.

[3D Prophet II]

You are talking about the V2 1000 PCI right? I know this may sound insulting, but you do have the 6" vga pass threw cable jumping from the on board VGA out to the VGA pass threw connector on the V2 right, then the monitor hooked up to the V2's vga output? This is a valid question. Sorry, had to ask.

[JW]

I never get affended, am the first to admit that I dont know everything and there are some guys out there that do!!!

I have the 6" adater (never mesured it) run from the SIS 6326 card down to the input of the Voodoo 2 card, and the out on the Voodoo 2 card to the monitor.

I first thought the Vga to PCI might be a problem, although the system had no problems b4 with this operation and installed a 4M V3 PCI video card and disabled the SIS 6326 and still the same.

Am going to try the hard wear accilartion hint and will let you know!!

[JW]

Any Ideas...Anyone???

[MacGyver]

Disable the onboard video and get a different video card, or replace the VooDoo card. it might be defective.

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[Polychronopolis]

Since you've replaced many hardware components and reformatted the HDD.. The only thing I haven't seen mentioned would be a bios update to the board, but I'm not sure how much it will do.

Have you toyed with the settings in the display or Voodoo II's control panel applet?

--So asks Polychronopolis..

[StevePorter]

Do what Spiff does for an especially difficult piece of hardware...target practice... http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smilies/cwm35.gif

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[3D Prophet II]

See if your system can run a game without the V2. The V2 1000 is usually very easy to set up, there may be an other issue besides the V2, but if the system seems to run stable enough, I'd try the old reprogramming trick again, only removing all the cards except the V2, make sure the V2 is in the PCI slot furthest away from the ISA slots, (if you got ISA) PCI slot closest to the onboard video output.

Load Windows, chipset drivers, onboard AGP driver, V2 driver, check to see if there are any conflicts in device manager. It's been awhile since I've installed a V2 so I'm not sure which IRQ would be the best, you may be able to share with the onboard video, who knows? You'll have to see. After you've made sure there aren't any conflicts, install the sound card and look back into device manager to see if you have conflicts, every time you install a board and add a driver, check to see if you have any conflicts.

You should try to run a game after the installation of the sound card drivers, the less items you have installed using up system resources the better. Good luck. Let us know.

[JW]

Mac Been there done that twice!!!

3D prof I thought the same you did, try removingh everything but the voodoo card and still no luck. There are 3 ISA slots which house my US Rob modem and a Creative Labs AWE 64 card.

Removed bouth the modem and the sund card, tried the on board sound off, then on. Still the same, then jumpered off again and put in my AWE card and my modem were there was no change.

Now the games run in software rendered mode, and in 3D mode with the SIS 6326, but in 3d mode everything is all messed up which would be because it is not able to do 3d!

Am going to try the reformat and close PCI slot now, although I feel it is in vain, please

Anyone out there...Pray for me, or the computer! http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/smile.gif