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Eil Atan
09-29-01, 02:11 PM
Hey all...

OK, I'm a little annoyed right now, I was getting lock ups in any 3D app that I ran, and so I figured it must have been that silly expired Direct X 8.1 beta, and so I reformatted, reinstalled Win2K Pro, and installed the nVidia 21.80 drivers, Direct X 8.0a, and the AGP Miniport Drivers, and it is still locking up... ahhh... frustrating moment...

It's not the nVidia drivers, because I've tried a couple versions of those and none of them work...

Pretty frustrating time right now... haven't played Quake 3 in forever! :rolleyes:

One thing I did find out was that it freezes in Q3, and in tests 2 and 4 on 3dMarks2k1... I don't know if that helps any...

Pinky
09-29-01, 10:27 PM
43C idle 50C load w/ side on!

Heat does cause these things, and the tests you mentioned are more GPU intensive that most, I got lockups on the same tests when overclocked too high and too much heat was being generated.