nForce and SI

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Galewyr Dark

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Has anyone else witha nForce2 mobo [Abit to be exact] experienced problems with staying in SI for more than about 30 mins.

Ok...the story goes i bought a nice shiny new nforce2 mobo from Abit, works PERFECTLY in every other game, but i loa dup SI and after about 30-45 mins i get dumped back to DT, no error message no nothing in FS mode.

In windowed mode i get a nice game.dll error.



Has anyoen else had this problem/fixed it cos its bugging the hell outta me.


Have tried...different ram...different GFX card.

Got latest drivers from Abit and the GFX vendors.

[Have tried both ATI and Nvidia GFX cards, both run perfectly stable in all my other games except SI]


Help!


-Gale
 
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Deadmanwalking

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Well someone had a similar problem here tbh with you i highly doubt that it is the motherboard at fault as such. From what i gather from being on here and other places daoc and especcialy SI is shit ... in terms of compatibility.
 
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Cadire

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I use the Epox 8RDA+ flavour of the nForce2 chipset, and I did have problems when I first started to use it. It turned out to be overly aggressive memory timings... setting this to 'Optimal' cured all my crashing problems (Specifically, my memory didn't like running at 166Mhz, but was fine at 133).
 
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Galewyr Dark

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Cadire

Hehe i just did that :)
Did a reinstall used lastest herc drivers for my GFX and changed the ram speed down a notch and it 'seems' ok now.
 
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SilverHood

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woot cadire.... will try to do that when I get home... I got exactly the same problem :)
 
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Galewyr Dark

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alas..it has amde it slightly more stable but i still drop to dt :(

think i will resign this board to my 2nd pc and get a nice VIA chipset as they seem more supported :(


-Gale
 
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Belsameth

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Originally posted by Galewyr Dark
get a nice VIA chipset as they seem more supported :(

*cackle*

I patiently await your next thread ;)
 
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Deadmanwalking

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DONT U DARE get a VIA chipset ..... espec of an nforce 2 you mad mad man :(
 
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Galewyr Dark

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Originally posted by Belsameth
*cackle*

I patiently await your next thread ;)


i had a VIA chipset for my last 3 or 4 pc's [over the last few years]

Havn't had a problem with any of them..even running SI they were nice n stable, keep with that you know works will be the watch word now :) [yeah this was a completly new PC]

resigning the nforce to my other box where i will continue playing to see if i can get it stable..its a shame as its a ncie board to.

-Gale
 
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Lorthania

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NVidia seems to have some kind of problem with the latest drivers for nForce... I think there's an explanation on their site together with instructions for those who are having problems.
 
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[PS]Venom

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I've got an Nforce2 Chipset and NEVER had any problems with it, it runs like shit off a hot shovel.

It's an ASUS, and most of the speed setting are on the defaults.

If it matters anything I am using PC4000 memory. At least that's what I think it was called - the latest standard anyway. Keeping up with all these numbers stymies me o_O
 
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SilverHood

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fucking hell, that must cost a bomb

imagine 1 gb of that... *drools*
 
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[PS]Venom

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Gah I meant PC3200/PC400 memory.

I couldn't fucking remember what it was, I built it 2 months ago :p

2x 256mb striped in the Nforce2 Zooooooooom configuration.
 
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SilverHood

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I got PC2700/333 mhz

not the fastest, but I have a gigabyte of it :)
 
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[PS]Venom

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Originally posted by SilverHood
I got PC2700/333 mhz

not the fastest, but I have a gigabyte of it :)

I'm only on 512Mb - I'd love to get 1Gb of striped memory on this mobo. Wooo...

Or whatever the term is.
 
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SilverHood

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when I built it, it was the choice between 512mb of the latest (3200), or 1 gig of 2700

quantity over quality, eh :)
 
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Deadmanwalking

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With an nforce2 and its duel channel jobbo stuff :p all thaty BS about 3200 is shit.... unless you are a 1337 0v3rcl0ck3r ... :rolleyes:
 
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Galewyr Dark

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Originally posted by Lorthania
NVidia seems to have some kind of problem with the latest drivers for nForce... I think there's an explanation on their site together with instructions for those who are having problems.

now this i am interested by.

BY the nforce site i assume u mean nforcehq???

well i'll trawl it on work time and see what i turn up, but if u know the name of the article it'll be much faster :)

-Gale

ps-

DDR333 1gig..nice stuff :)
 
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Deadmanwalking

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erm nforcehq i hate to say i think is an awful attempt at a helpful site... not only is it always slow with the information it just takes ages to explain anything.

nvida.com - - they make the chipsets they do the drivers
 
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Galewyr Dark

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yeah i know nvidia make the chipset..bit difficult not to with the HUGE nvidia logo that comes up when u install the drivers

But they don't exactly have a 'support' section of the mobo area.

Although they do hold the 'old' 2.03 UDP on the site which is my next try and makign ti stable...also w2k is gonna be loaded tonight :)


Well thats my cunning plan anyway.


Also if u chec the bottem of this page
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=nforce
at the bottem it refers u to nfhq...but as u say tis a slow site and the forums just spammy, but there is some good info in there

-Gale
 
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Galewyr Dark

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problem found...faulty AMD CPU....scan = teh suck DO NOT buy form them....i never will again


2 faulty mobos and a fualty CPU [mobos confirmed by them as faulty the cpu is sat on my desk as a nice mug holder atm]


And i was stable again...rhey!!

-Gale
 
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frogster

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Originally posted by Deadmanwalking.
With an nforce2 and its duel channel jobbo stuff :p all thaty BS about 3200 is shit.... unless you are a 1337 0v3rcl0ck3r ... :rolleyes:


Eh?

3200 is your theoretical bandwidth.
400 part the the frequency.
 
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Deadmanwalking

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Erm what i was tealking about having never mentioned 400fsb

Was the ppl that buy an nforce2 mobo and then spend loads on 3500/3200 ram when it isn't needed and wont make no where near the difference it would on for example a Kt400 motherboard.
 

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