vid card problems in games, plz help!

[Mr. Chambers]

upgraded my friends computer over the past couple months.. nothing spectacular in terms of speed, but had alot of the parts lying around anyway.. the current system is as follows:

500mhz AMD K6-2
128MB PC133 RAM
FIC PA2013 socket 7 motherboard
20 GB Maxtor 5400 HD (slave for files, etc.)
5 GB Seagate 5400 HD (old one set up as master with win98SE)
Creative SoundBlaster Live SC
Pioneer 16x DvD
Creative 8x CD-RW

the system works fine other than when i try and play any type of game or run 3dmarks or something it hard locks or blue screens usually giving some .vxd error...

i orginally tried a AGP TNT2 M64 32MB card, which gave me these errors, then i tried a PCI version of the identical card.. and i still get them.. if anyone has ANY idea on how to help me, it would be greatly appreciated.. i was thinking maybe a bios flash, but am not sure where to get or which one i need.. and it is slightly dangerous, so i'm not too excited about it.. thx again

 

[explorer]

I had this same error one time, you have to find out which file you are missing and then get it off of the win98 cd and put it into one of the system files that holds the vxd files.

 

[repo man11]

A few months ago someone was having problems with one of those boards. He came to find out that FIC recommends a video card with no more than 8 megs of memory!

 

[Mr. Chambers]

well the blue screen vxd error is VERY rare.. it usually 99% of the time, just hard locks.. like at the very start of the first demo in 3dmarks, or any other game for that matter... web and windows look and run fine.. i was thinking that flashing the bios might help? what do you think

 

[repo man11]

Updating the BIOS might help, and it couldn't hurt, as long as you're careful. Finding the FIC site is no problem, I was just there. They've changed it since the last time I was there, they no longer say anything specifically about vid cards with more than 8 megs of memory. Format a floppy, set it to copy system files only, put the BIOS file and the flash utility you download from FIC on it, make a note of the exact name of the BIOS file, and reboot with the disc inserted. Make sure your floppy is your first boot device. I'm sure that FIC has a BIOS flash guide as well. Good luck.

 

[Sir-Epix]

I would have to say that these errors are from incompatablity. On my friends old custom made Micron he got these errors all the time from the time he swapped/upgraded his video card. They were all VXD errors. Try a different card that is reccommend for that motherboard.