Win XP Crashes and Hangs

[wdouglas]

I'm running Windows XP on a IWill KK266PlusR motherboard with Thunderbird 1.4GHz, Videologic Sonicfury (Turte Beach Santa Cruz) sound card and a Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 graphics card.

2D games are fine and a few 3D games work (e.g Serious Sam) but most 3D games (e.g Quake III, Unreal Tournament) either crash or hang the system after a few minutes or even seconds of use.

I've downloaded all of the latest drivers for the hardware but still no joy. I've disabled ACPI, tried the AMD Win2K AGP patch, changed the AGP aperture, disabled 4X AGP - basically every thing I can find which I've heard can fix these problems but I don't seem to be getting anywhere.

Has anyone else got this configuration working properly?

Can anyone suggest anything else to try before I decide to scrap Win XP and try again with Win 98SE?

Help please!

[redduc900]

Welcome to the forums...

You might want to try increasing the AGP Driving Strength value in the BIOS (it sets the timing of the signal that your video card's driver uses to communicate across the AGP bus). At present the value is probably set at DA or Auto (the default value that Iwill normally uses with the KK series of boards). Since I use a Leadtek GeForce2 GTS, I've always had this value set to EA and clocked to 215 & 375 without any problems.

Decimal to Hexadecimal Conversion...

DA=218
EA=234

You can find a Decimal to Hexadecimal Conversion Table here...

http://www.jaworski.com/htmlbook/dec-hex.htm

Here's an article over at ArsTechnica that describes AGP Driving Strength..

http://www.arstechnica.com/ask-ars/2000/ask-08212000.html

You could also read up on it here at the GeForce FAQ...

http://www.geforcefaq.com

and here at RojakPot's site...

http://rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz/BIOS_Guide/BIOS_Guide_Index.htm

[cyberey66]

I'm having the same problems here. I miss UT.:(

[heezer7]

I was having the same problem too. Web site (http://www.hercules.com)
just released new drivers. i have not had any problems since i updated today. ver 14.XX or something

[Soyo Boy]

Check the box for the game. If it doesnt list win2000 as a compatible OS, then most of the time, XP wont work either because both OS's use the same or similar network kernel.