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Spydc
08-06-01, 12:57 PM
I have a p3-600E@800 (133fsbx6) 1.72volts. I am using a bx motherboard (Soyo 6BA+100). Obviously, when overclocking, the agp bus is out of spec....it is set at 88MHz. I recently acquired a GeForce 2 gts 32MB by creative labs although the bios version is 3.15.00.13.01.
It is not overclocked and is set at 200/333. I've experienced some random crashing since installing the card. It is not a lot but enough to get my attention. How can I tell if the crashing problem is solely the fault of the overclocked agp bus/video card and not the overclocked P3. I've run Prime95 for hours to test the chip. It idles at 23C and gets as high as 41 to 42C when running prime95 for a long time. I always get "Self-test 1024 passed!" I even open a lot of programs at once and put on a divx movie while prime95 is running and it doesn't crash. SBA and Fast Writes are disabled. AGP@2x. I'm currently using the 12.41 drivers on Windows 2000 with SP2. I installed 14.10 last night and ran 3dmark2000 and 2001. It seems that with the 14.xx series, 3dmark2000 can successfully complete the 64MB texture rending speedtest... but with the 12.XX series, it doesn't run the test (not enough agp memory).. But games seem to crash more with the 14.xx drivers. I have my agp apeture size to 64MB. Any thoughts?

Pinky
08-06-01, 02:03 PM
Does the PC crash when the CPU is running at default speeds?

Just because a CPU posts and runs some tests doesn't guarantee it's stable.

Spydc
08-06-01, 02:10 PM
Prime 95 is the one of the most reliable programs to test stability. In addition, it never crashed when doing other stuff besides gaming. Also, it never crashed when I had my tnt2 plugged in.

samuknow
08-06-01, 02:20 PM
I am assuming that all ran fine b4 you installed the GF2 GTS vid card. May be try rinning AGP ap at 128 meg. This got me a little more stability. But I am running a VIA chipset.

Also try without 2x enabled. You won't notice the performance diff. And it may get you the stability you need.