AsusA7A266 or GeForce 4?

HV,
Unfortunatly I do not have the answer to your question, but just wanted to let you know that I am in the same boat with you. I have the same mobo and an NVIDIA GeForce card. I have the AMD Duron chip with the ALiM1535D. Have done all the updates/patches and driver fixes and it still freezes up in games or out of games. I dont think it is the card as much as the AMD/ALi chips. Have also heard it may be power supply from mobo. Was also told to get W/XP not W/98se. If I hear I will let ya know. Just wanted to say your not alone here!
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My first question is how much ram do you have?
I would recommend 384MB for a W98 system. As much as you can afford for XP.
If you have 512MB or more, the amount of ram may be your problem. There are documented bugs with W98 and ram of 512MB or more.

Bios settings:
AGP speed 4X
AGP apperature - minimum is double ram on video card. Use 256MB if you have 384MB of system ram.
Never use a setting less than or = to video memory unless your system is limited. A small AGP aperature will reduce performance greatly.

While I havn't used the new ALI chipset, ALI and Nvidia have had compatability issues in the past.
Bug ASUS about the performance issues so that they will push ALI for a driver or BIOS patch.
It wouldn't hurt to bug the card mfg to, as they might be able to improve compatability with a video BIOS revision.

I predict that ALI and Nvidia compatability will get worse now that Nvidia is in the motherboard chipset business.

Chas

Hi,
graphics cards can have so many variables that make it tough to answer such a question. I can tell you this, many games require patches in order to work with 64 meg video cards. Some background progams may also effect in game performance, findfast etc. With N-Vidia cards, it also makes a difference who made the card. I had a vanta card made by asus which would never work with detonator drivers but used the set provided by asus fine. Also emty the folder c:\windows\temp, many games will run poorly if this folder is loaded with junk.

Well I have:
Asus A7A266 mobo
Verto GeForce4 TI 4400
512 MB PC133 SDram
60GB HDD
WinXP

Btw Ive updated and check all that stuff too.... dunno what else to do. :(

Hi
Question: 1.Are you using opengl or directx? You should be using opengl.
2. What graphics card where you using before the G4and did you have the same issues with it?
3. Did you completely remove the old graphics card drivers? Conflicting drivers may not show up in the device manager and can cause lock ups.

Try this:
1 in directx setup test the drivers for the card. Any directx issues will show up here

2 Remove all the ram and re-insert one then test the game. If the game dosent lock up then remove the known good ram and insert the next dimm.

3 Remove your nic card and drivers for the nic and then try the game(i know i know). I have seen a bad nic cause lockups in certain apps...took ALONG time to troubleshoot that issue, but it is a possibility.

Just a tip...I always stay 1lvl below the newest technology. So I dont become an beta tester.

gdew

Just to inform you all that I also have an Asus A7A266 m/b, Athlon XP 1600+ CPU, 256 DDR Ram, Riva TNT2 M64 graphics card, Soundblaster Live Player sound card. I do not have any problems with my PC. I can load, play, quit, load and play the next game without having any problems or rebooting, even when the games differ in using OpenGL or Direct3D. This system is a lot more stable than my PIII with Via chipsets using the same graphics card.

In the NVMAX util, if I can remember correctly as I don't use it anymore, there was a option that you could set for AMD chips for stability issues. It helped on my Intel PIII chip a bit.

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