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I have just bought a new Athalon 750 with a Riva TNT2 M64 video card with 32 meg memory on card. My problem is that on boot up right before the icons load it will freeze the screen and I will have to reset the pc. Also when I am playing a high graphic game it will sometimes freeze up while i'm playing and the only thing I can do is reset the pc.
Any suggestions what could cause this?
I am running win98 se on a thunderbird 750 amd with 128 meg memory
What kind of Motherboard chipset are you using? NVIDIA boards don't like certain MB chipsets, and this can wreak havoc with DirectX and hardware 3D accelerated games.
Have you tried installing the latest DirectX version?
Also, make sure you have the latest drivers from Nvidia AND your motherboard manufactuer.
There is a fix from Norton to alieviate the cache hogging of one of their snoops, I would suspect it is a caching problem, and a loop back memory call , thats being detoured. The Fix is simply multiply your ram by the factor of 2.5 , and set that value for virtual caching, in my computer,propertiesd, performance, and virtual memory settings, it's 320 , but when it askes you to reboot , tell it no, close everything , and shut down the machine, wait 30 seconds and restart, at this point I am assuming you can recover by using safeboot if it don't fly, if it boots , likely the majority of the problem will be gone , but this doesn't work with all chipsets, hence safeboot fallback, if it does , THEN turn off all the extra stuff running at startup, you will like what this setting does to DirectX, but it isn't a cure all , but will allow direct routing on most caching and memory calls (Cleanout the C:\Windows \Temp file ) , clear the documents folder, and paste a single word into a text file, this clears the clipboard, and do a desktop refresh after all the clearing out., i would suspect you have one too many programs starting at bootup, hitting CTRL ALT DEL will show whats under the hood on start, disable any that you dont need and try it. Luck . P.S. do a read at Norton if you are able to use those settings for the Auto-protect fix , no matter if youve got it or not.
Another thought , I would make a bet that you are using a SB card for sound, do yourself a favor and go to Creative and get the latest driver , as it can mess with the calls made on the Vid Card, luck.
I also have a athlon 750. Mine would freeze up alot too, after lots of research and looking around I found out that the Amd's run very hot and lock up alot. So what I did was underclock it and made it run at 650Mhz that made it run cooler and solved the probelm. Also have the memory checked out and make sure that it is not bad. Cause bad memory will do this too.
