problem with via chipset and gf3s?

[hawkeye_wx]

I posted somewhere about a problem I was having with my system locking up. I am running a soyo dragon+ mobo with athlon xp and visiontek gf3 ti 200. Someone replied to my post saying there have been problems with via chipset/geforce 3 combos and there is some kind of patch that fixes the problem. Has anyone else heard about this? If this is true, it just seems strange that I haven't read anything about it before.

[RainMaQer]

How ya doin today? Well I have no idea but I would like to try and help so if you could post your full system specs and we'll give it a go;)

[Kingslayer]

It wouldn't suprise me if there was a problem with the VIA and the GF3. Seems like its getting to the point where those VIA chipsets dont play nice with anything.

Have you tried the latest VIA 4 in 1's. Yeah, I know a root canal is better, but what can it hurt right?

[wildone]

If there is a problem I was not aware of it ,I am haveing no trouble with my setup.

wildone

[hawkeye_wx]

Here is my system:

Soyo Dragon+
Athlon XP 1600+
Visiontek GF3 Ti 200
512 MB Crucial DDR2100
IBM 40 GB 7200rpm
Pioneer 32x cdrom
PowerMan(I think) 300W ps

[RainMaQer]

Have you checked to see what your temps are like... idle and full load? When do you run into problems?

[hawkeye_wx]

I'm using an alpha 8045 heatsink w/ panaflo 39cfm fan. If the temperature sensors are reasonably accurate, there is no heat problem. I ran 3dmark demo in a loop for 9 hours yesterday and the cpu temp said 39C.

The computer locked up for the first time after I had been playing Civilization 3 for much of the day(not exactly a lot of stress on the cpu or video card). After it locked up, I restarted the computer and started playing Civ3 again. Within 2 minutes, it locked up again. The next day, I ran 3dmark and within 2 hours it locked up. Yesterday I ran 3dmark for 9 hours with my tnt2 card installed and I ran into no problems.

[RainMaQer]

Do you have your vid card oc'ed... heat may be an issue with your vid card alone... or perhaps memory...

[hawkeye_wx]

I had my video card mildly overclocked when the first pair of lockups happened. When 3dmark locked up the card was not overclocked at all.

I had been running my video card more overclocked for 2 weeks with no problems at all. The problems didn't start until I upgraded my motherboard/ram a few days ago.

[hawkeye_wx]

Ok, I installed the via 4 in 1 v4.36 drivers yesterday afternoon. I've been running 3dmark in a loop for about 14 hours now, and no lockups. After 6 hours, there was some kind of direct 3d error that caused the program to stop, but the system didn't crash or lockup so I just started the 3dmark loop again and it has been going fine ever since.

[Sonny]

The 4.36 is suppose to help with the stability problem with VIA+NVidia GPU+Det Drivers. There is also a problem with W98SE+VIA+GF3 & the work around is to replace one of the variables then everything would be ok:beer:

[hawkeye_wx]

My system still hasn't locked up again, but there was another error while running 3dmark this morning. I don't know what error it was, but windows shut the program and said something about recovering from an error. I also got a window asking me if I wanted to send the error report to microsoft, but I declined, of course.