FilthyMinx
ISP
Hi all,
Been having a bit of a nightmare with XP and an ABIT Siluro Geforce2 card.
Firstly, basic sytem specs are : Athlon XP 1900, ABIT KR7A MB, 256Mb 2100 RAM.
Drivers : Latest Detonator release. Latest VIA 4-in-1. All available XP patches.
Here's the hassle - video works just great when I start the machine up, games are all fine, fps is reasonable etc etc. I turn my back on the machine for an hour or so and come back. At this point one of two things happens (or both if I'm really lucky) :
1) The mouse pointer is gone or is frozen.
However, moving the mouse still triggers events on the screen. For example, moving the now invisible mouse pointer over a webpage changes the status bar for each link passed. Weird.
2) I click the start button , or right click basically anywhere and I get a semi-transparent start menu or the currently highlighted right click menu item staying on the screen and then the system hangs. Hitting Ctrl-alt-delete still brings up the task manager, and I can generally close explorer and run it manually but the problem just occurs again.
I can't reboot at this point , so I hit the reset. The box boots fine. I then put the card through it's paces with 3D-Mark or Fresh Diagnose and everythings fine..
... for about an hour when it all goes down the tubes again.
My first thoughts were that it was overheating, but I figure that should affect the card after I reset the box too ? It also doesn't _seem_ to give me any hassles as long as I'm using it which lead me to believe it might be a power-saving type problem but I've tried disabling every XP and BIOS power setting I can find - no joy (
Swapping the card for a PCI M64 card completely resolves the problem, but leaves me with pretty poor video performance ...
Any ideas ?
TiA !!
Allan.
Been having a bit of a nightmare with XP and an ABIT Siluro Geforce2 card.
Firstly, basic sytem specs are : Athlon XP 1900, ABIT KR7A MB, 256Mb 2100 RAM.
Drivers : Latest Detonator release. Latest VIA 4-in-1. All available XP patches.
Here's the hassle - video works just great when I start the machine up, games are all fine, fps is reasonable etc etc. I turn my back on the machine for an hour or so and come back. At this point one of two things happens (or both if I'm really lucky) :
1) The mouse pointer is gone or is frozen.
However, moving the mouse still triggers events on the screen. For example, moving the now invisible mouse pointer over a webpage changes the status bar for each link passed. Weird.
2) I click the start button , or right click basically anywhere and I get a semi-transparent start menu or the currently highlighted right click menu item staying on the screen and then the system hangs. Hitting Ctrl-alt-delete still brings up the task manager, and I can generally close explorer and run it manually but the problem just occurs again.
I can't reboot at this point , so I hit the reset. The box boots fine. I then put the card through it's paces with 3D-Mark or Fresh Diagnose and everythings fine..
... for about an hour when it all goes down the tubes again.
My first thoughts were that it was overheating, but I figure that should affect the card after I reset the box too ? It also doesn't _seem_ to give me any hassles as long as I'm using it which lead me to believe it might be a power-saving type problem but I've tried disabling every XP and BIOS power setting I can find - no joy (
Swapping the card for a PCI M64 card completely resolves the problem, but leaves me with pretty poor video performance ...
Any ideas ?
TiA !!
Allan.