Alright, I've been having this problem for about a month now. I've been searching through the forums tryin to find a fix, and I now feel I've tried everything I have read, next to buying a new mobo which I'm hoping isn't my problem. I didn't know exactly where this should fit in on the forums, so I closed my eyes and clicked. Then I reopened up IE and decided I'd keep my eyes open when clicking.
My problem is when I'm playing bf1942, it did happen with MOHAA but that isn't loaded anymore so I haven't tried it recently. I play bf1942 for 15 to 45 minutes, and it keeps locking up on me. Screen freezes, no BSOD, once in a while the sound will keep going, but most times not. I have to use the power button to reboot. A few times after I reboot the windows error report screen shows up and says the nvidia drivers are likely responsible for the error. Alright, I was using the 42.01, so I tried the 40.09. Same lock ups. Then I decided to try the 30.82, the ones that came with the vidio card, still the same thing. So I tried the 40.72 WHQL, and that still didn't make a difference. I did use Detonator Destroyer after the 30.82. I read about winxp and the refresh rate, didn't know if it applied to me, but I switched it back to 60hz and ran the game in the same resolution as windows. I've got the latest Via 4in1 v438, and I've flashed the bios with the latest update.
Anyway, I had a 300 Watt sparkle PSU that worked great for a year and a half, but thought maybe it was a power problem, so I went with a 350 watt sparkle. Read good things about it, and figured it should be enough for my little system. I Bought a 80 gig WD 7200, and did a fresh install of winXP. I Had a stock hsf and averaged around 50- 61, so what the hell, got a slk-800, used asIII, now temps are 38-46, but still didn't make a difference.
What really bothers me about this is that I looped 3dmark2001SE for almost 6 hours, no problems. I did have problems with the 42.01 detonators, but since I changed them it's ran fine. I scored a 9124, where before all this started happening, I was averaging 9300+ on stock settings. I have 1gig of pc2100 that I tested using memtest86 v3.0. I Ran 3 tests and it passed all three times. I ran prime95 for 4 days straight now, with no problems. So why is it struggling with bf1942?
I had the old geForce 2 MX so I pulled out the TI4200 and replaced it with the Gf2, and of course that didn't make any difference. Just the short time I have to play the game I have to turn down all the visual settings to get decent fps.
I pulled out my soundblaster live card and am running off the onboard sound, I flipped the ram chips, tried each of them by themself and now don't know where to go next with this. I'm hoping that my mobo isn't f@(#ed.
The system isn't overclocked, runs great until I play BF1942 for a little while.
Please Someone Tell Me that I missed Something SO simple that I don't have to worry about a new mobo , yet.
**Wishful Thinking**
My problem is when I'm playing bf1942, it did happen with MOHAA but that isn't loaded anymore so I haven't tried it recently. I play bf1942 for 15 to 45 minutes, and it keeps locking up on me. Screen freezes, no BSOD, once in a while the sound will keep going, but most times not. I have to use the power button to reboot. A few times after I reboot the windows error report screen shows up and says the nvidia drivers are likely responsible for the error. Alright, I was using the 42.01, so I tried the 40.09. Same lock ups. Then I decided to try the 30.82, the ones that came with the vidio card, still the same thing. So I tried the 40.72 WHQL, and that still didn't make a difference. I did use Detonator Destroyer after the 30.82. I read about winxp and the refresh rate, didn't know if it applied to me, but I switched it back to 60hz and ran the game in the same resolution as windows. I've got the latest Via 4in1 v438, and I've flashed the bios with the latest update.
Anyway, I had a 300 Watt sparkle PSU that worked great for a year and a half, but thought maybe it was a power problem, so I went with a 350 watt sparkle. Read good things about it, and figured it should be enough for my little system. I Bought a 80 gig WD 7200, and did a fresh install of winXP. I Had a stock hsf and averaged around 50- 61, so what the hell, got a slk-800, used asIII, now temps are 38-46, but still didn't make a difference.
What really bothers me about this is that I looped 3dmark2001SE for almost 6 hours, no problems. I did have problems with the 42.01 detonators, but since I changed them it's ran fine. I scored a 9124, where before all this started happening, I was averaging 9300+ on stock settings. I have 1gig of pc2100 that I tested using memtest86 v3.0. I Ran 3 tests and it passed all three times. I ran prime95 for 4 days straight now, with no problems. So why is it struggling with bf1942?
I had the old geForce 2 MX so I pulled out the TI4200 and replaced it with the Gf2, and of course that didn't make any difference. Just the short time I have to play the game I have to turn down all the visual settings to get decent fps.
I pulled out my soundblaster live card and am running off the onboard sound, I flipped the ram chips, tried each of them by themself and now don't know where to go next with this. I'm hoping that my mobo isn't f@(#ed.
The system isn't overclocked, runs great until I play BF1942 for a little while.
Please Someone Tell Me that I missed Something SO simple that I don't have to worry about a new mobo , yet.
**Wishful Thinking**