Geforce 5700le Rebooting computer

[MATechGuy]

So here is where i am at right now. Every time i go to play a game the computer reboots as soon as i get into any graphically renderd gameplay. i can play some old school games such as age of empires II but even something just a little newer like Big Motha Truckers. The second worst game i could find wont work. other than that it is rock solid stable. i have done everything i can think of to get it to crash when not doing video, it wont crash. as soon as i enter a game it crashes within 5-10 seconds. i disabled the reboot feature to see the blue screen i get stop 0x000000d1 DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. i upgraded the drivers for the card, the chipset, the sound card, and flashed the bios. nothing has made the slightest change yet. here are the specs.

MOBO: Shuttle AK31 V2
RAM: 256 MB cheapo DDR 266
CPU: AMD Athlon T-bird 1333
Video card:Ennyah Geforce 5700le
Sound: Crystal Soundfusion
Windows 2000

any help or input would be appreaciated.

 

[paparazi]

MATechGuy
I'll take a stab. Most likely senario first.

1)Power supply voltage momentarily dropping outside of stable tolerances.
These micro ATX PSU's are inherently weak (I'll have a guess, 185watts?) check fan is spinning.
You could just try hanging a good PSU 300watt plus outside the case, connect it up and give it a spin.

2)Cheap memory, what can I say! 256mb is borderline anyway but cheap ram often causes issues like this, swap out to check, if you can.

3)Overheating? although these symptoms are not typical, the T-Bird 1333 was a very hot CPU and around it's era heatsink/coolers were too small generally to adequately cool this beasty. A modern day basic socket "A" cooler is twice the size and better suited for the job.

4) Graphics card fan seized? overheating GPU? definated remove the graphics card and clean the contacts with an eraser, refit.

5) Bad caps? bulging or leaking capacitors? see:

http://www.badcaps.com

6)loose connections or wires, especially check the main power socket to the motherboard for overheating/discoloured pins etc.

7) A bad driver, it might be a good idea to use a driver clean program to remove all remnants of this and previous drivers, then clean install a late driver but not necessarily the latest, the 71.89 works well for me on slightly older Nvidia cards like yours.

8) Also be aware that this Via KT266A chipset equipt motherboard should not have the latest Via 4 in 1 drivers installed.
It is recommended that the slightly older 4.43's are used instead.

9)Obvious but are you fully service packed, up to date etc

Martin



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[MATechGuy]

1) The power supply is 500w made by aspire. It has front and rear fans they are both spinning i turned the speed up just for good measure. but i dont think thats the problem.

2)swapped out a memory module with my roommates. no difference.

3)I have Motherboard monitor utility that runs in the system tray and the proscessor temp is 88 degrees and the case is 71.

4) fan was operating proberly cleaned the contacts and reinstalled. also blew the heatsink and fan on the gpu, cpu, and chipset out with a can of compressed air.

5)Checked out the board the capacitors look fine. nothing like the examples on the link.

6)Unplugged and replugged every connector and looked at the motherboard connector. no change.

7)I will bring my pc to a friends house who has dsl and do this step later. i had this problem with the driver on the disk that came with the card and also with the latest one from

http://www.nvidia.com.

8) i actually have the chipset drivers that your recommend isntalled.

9) actually that is one area that i overlooked. i just installed the os a few days ago and never thought that that might cure me. i will do that tomorrow and post the results as well as the driver results.

Thanks for your help so far. hopefully with the help of people like you i can get this issue solved.

 

[paparazi]

MATechGuy
My mistake: when I saw Shuttle I presumed small XPC style case, hence the reason for saying 185watt PSU.

Martin


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