Date: 07/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

I purchased a nVidia 6600GT (agp version) a few months back and at apparently random points while playing a 3D intense app (Half-Life 2 / CS: S in this case), it hangs after playing from anywhere between 15 minutes all the way to 45 or more.

To be more accurate, the screen freezes and the sound loops ad infinitum (probably a quarter second sample that just loops infinitely) and the computer doesn't respond to any input short of restarting it.


I've gone through tons and tons of forums and support related sites and I've tried all sorts of things:



1. Not a sound issue - happens w/ out soundblaster or without any sound drivers installed at all.
2. Changed memory setup from dual to single channel - no dice.
3. Changed AGP speed from 8x to 4x - no dice.
4. Enabled motherboard chipset compatibility mode with RivaTuner - no dice.
5. Tested it with fastwrite set to both on and off - no dice.
6. Updated the drivers - neither nVidia's newest or the most current forceware drivers make any difference (currently using nVidia forceware drivers ver. 7.7.7.2).

Nothing is overclocked on the system, so nothing should be problematic on that front.

I thought it might have been an overheating problem, but I purchased an Arctic Cooling (NV Silencer 6) heatsink, and that didn't change a thing. And sadly there is no option in the bios on this particular version of the 6600GT to monitor the temp.

The specs for my system are as follows:
AMD 3200+ CPU
ASUS A7V880 motherboad
2 512 sticks of DDR PC3200 memory in dual channel setup
A single 160 gig SATA hard drive.
A PCI soundblaster live
And the card itself is a nVidia Rosewill 6600GT AGP running the nVidia forceware 7.7.7.2 driver set.



Here's a copy of the hardware report from RivaTuner: (sorry about the length)
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Northbridge information
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$0400000000 Description : unknown
$0400000001 Vendor ID : 1106 (VIA)
$0400000002 Device ID : 0269
$0400000003 AGP bus : revision 3.0
$0400000004 AGP status : enabled
$0400000005 AGP rate : 8x supported, 8x selected
$0400000006 AGP SBA : hardwired, enabled
$0400000007 AGP FW : supported, enabled
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Display adapter information
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$0000000000 Description : NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
$0000000001 Vendor ID : 10de (NVIDIA)
$0000000002 Device ID : 00f1
$0000000003 Location : bus 1, device 0, function 0
$0000000004 Bus type : AGP revision 3.0
$0000000005 AGP status : enabled
$0000000006 AGP rate : 4x 8x supported, 8x selected
$0000000007 AGP SBA : hardwired, enabled
$0000000008 AGP FW : supported, enabled
$0000000009 Base address 0 : fd000000 (memory range)
$000000000a Base address 1 : 90000000 (memory range)
$000000000b Base address 2 : fc000000 (memory range)
$000000000c Base address 3 : none
$000000000d Base address 4 : none
$000000000e Base address 5 : none
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff NVIDIA specific display adapter information
$ffffffffff ---------------------------------------------------
$0100000000 Graphics core : NV43 revision A2 (8x1,3vp)
$0100000001 Hardwired ID : 014a (ROM strapped to 0140)
$0100000002 Memory bus : 128-bit
$0100000003 Memory type : DDR (RAM configuration 07)
$0100000004 Memory amount : 131072KB
$0100000005 Core clock : 299.250MHz
$0100000006 Memory clock : 450.000MHz (900.000MHz effective)
$0100000007 Reference clock : 27.000MHz



I am at the end of my rope with this. Do any of you have an idea as to why this continues to happen?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/720332.html

Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: asp, google

I never heard of this. And google is involved, go figure
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=fundsNews2&storyID=URI:urn:newsml:reuters.com:20050707:MTFH38832_2005-07-07_04-54-45_N07256697:1

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/720030.html

Date: 07/06/05     Keywords: web

Greetings,
I am currently seeking the Compaq Quick System Restore CD's for the Compaq Presario 1245 Laptop.

I've inherited the laptop as a hand me down, and it's missing all of its original drivers. I've spent days working on the machine, and currently have Win98 running on it, but it's still missing the right drivers. I did all sorts of searching on the Compaq site. Downloading has worked for the audio drivers, but not for the video/monitor driver and others. When the Neo Magic drivers try to install, it has errors. I am fairly certain after quite a bit of research that I need the Quick Restore CD's. Unfortunately, Compaq/HP no longer sells or supports these, and they seem nigh impossible to find on the web.

I figured that someone out there had or has a Compaq Presario 1245 and can help me out. I am willing to pay shipping to get the CD's to me, and even willing to ship them back if needed. I just want to get this poor machine working again.

Hope someone can help ! (x-posted)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/719043.html

Date: 07/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

Ok anybody out there with a MSI MB. How does their LIVE Bios online upgrade work? Is it safe? anything you could tell me would be helpful. Thanks

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/718769.html

Date: 07/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

Two things I want to do:

1. I want to complete unistall Windows XP from my slave drive while still being able to use it to store stuff on.

2. Whenever I turn my computer on, it keeps asking which OS I want to use. One is the one on my main drive, and the other is the one on my slave drive (which would be nice to delete).


Help?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/718385.html

Date: 07/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/718155.html

Date: 07/03/05     Keywords: linux, ebay

Well to be perfectly honest, I'm bored. I've been looking for a new project or gadget to keep me busy for a while. I've been looking at a cheaper panasonic toughbook on ebay, then at a NEC MobilePro 780 (900's are way too expensive) or just a new pda of some sort (PocketPC or Linux)

I CAN'T Decide what I want to try. Every idea has it's pros and cons:

Toughbook: +very resourceful, -but older, -less battery life, -expensive
Mobilepro: +Inexpensive (~100), -Older, -less capable pda, +unique
Pda: +Newer, +midrange price, +more capable, +many available to choose from, -constantly outdated

I don't know. Call me a fool and his money, but I just need something different and interesting to occupy myself with for a while. Opinions/suggestions welcome.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/716930.html

Date: 07/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

The whole story is on my journal. The short version is that I added 512MB of RAM to my system today.

Thus, now I can do this:

I didn't actually have Fedora 4 CDs to hand though, so it's RH9, because that's all I could find quickly.

I rock.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/716784.html

Date: 07/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

What type of differences, if any, would I notice if I got a new modem installed for my dialup?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/716340.html

Date: 07/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

I want to reformat my 120 GB slave HD with a Windows XP CD but the drive had been previously formatted with 20 GB partitioned.

I removed the partitions, or so I thought, but my attempts to reformat the HD would only offer to format the HD up to the first 90+ GB while leaving the other 20+ GB out of the reformat.

Can anyone give me a hand doing this?

Also, I think the computer stopped formatting after a while (got up to 57%, I think). Am I doing something wrong?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/716016.html

Date: 07/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

When I lasst connected to my ISP, it says I am connecting at 41.2Kbps but yet it seems to be going fairly slow for me. I thought the higher you connect, the faster your experience. I am on dial-up and usually get somewhere between 29-38 Kbps. I have a 56k modem. Am I wrong in my thinking?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/715547.html

Date: 07/01/05     Keywords: security, microsoft

Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 on a CD.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

1/2 way down the page is a link to "order a CD"
good to update off line or w a 56K modem box.
.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/715247.html

Date: 07/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

Would you recommend upgrading from my ATI Radeon 9200 128mb (AGP) to the Radeon 9550 256mb? It's not the best, but it looks nice. I don't game all that much, if at all, but I'm returning a pos linksys pci wifi card to walmart and I don't see anything else I want to exchange it for. After the exchange it would only cost me ~$70. What do you think?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/714631.html

Date: 06/30/05     Keywords: no keywords

For some reason, some of my video files/movies aren't playing the video. Just the audio. Windows Media Player 10 (and all my other file players) is really failing on files that I know have video like some television shows that I've downloaded. I'm pretty sure I have all the latest codecs. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Is it something I need to fix in the Control Panel? (I use Windows XP) [EDIT:] These files worked in the past. Something has changed recently. I was hoping you guys might have some ideas what it was.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/714266.html

Date: 06/28/05     Keywords: web, google

Hello,

I'm making a web site for my school over the summer, and I would like my users to be able to update their pages themselves, without having to resort to FTPing. Most of the teachers are even worse off than I am in computer knowledge, so what I'm looking for is a way for them to log in, enter what they want to show up in a field, and then submit.

I've spent today trying to find what I should be looking for, if you get my meaning, but have had no luck. I simply don't have enough knowledge to know what I should be typing into Google. I would be immensely greatful if anyone here knows of any resources online for learning how to accomplish the above.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/713672.html

Date: 06/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have a friend that has a 200g external. It's formatted for PC.
Seagate, maybe a year old.

Yesterday, while trying to get stuff from me he hooked it up to my mac. It took a while, but the mac recconized it and I was able to transfter stuff to it. Later when I plugged it into my PC (XP Pro, P3) it asked me did I want to format the drive.
I plugged it back into my mac, and the mac said the same thing.

My understanding with the mac/pc interface is that if it was already formatted for PC then it shouldn't have any problems going between platform, that is unless it was not suppose to ever go on a mac.

Is there anyway to recover the files on the hdd or are they lost.

thanks again

x-posted many places

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/713250.html

Date: 06/26/05     Keywords: no keywords

Is there a program or something out there where I can track an IP address and not just see what city they're in but a closer look - say a street address?

I have this one IP that keeps showing up on a site of mine and I can only tell it's from Brooklyn, but I want to know if it's one pain in the ass ex-friend inperticular so I want to know where this IP is exactly located.

They're using a verizon account if that counts for anything.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/712293.html

Date: 06/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

So this is gunna seem really dumb and I should know the answer, but here's the deal; I was trying to format my buddies computer but it wouldn't boot from cd, so I started installing xp from windows thinking it would restart and give me the option to format. But it said I cannot delete the selected partition because there are temporary setup files that are needed, but I can overwrite the windows folder by putting xp on the same partition. So I did that, but alas now there are two OS's on there. How do I delete the old one? And even if I do delete the old one, all the files and stuff are still on the new one, so how do I do a complete format now? I tried hitting f9 during startup to get into bios and change the settings into boot from cd but bios wouldn't come up.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/711704.html

Date: 06/23/05     Keywords: microsoft, google

My client has a brand spanking new XP box that I built, & installed the OS on. I did not install XP in the traditional boot from cd way. Instead I Ghosted from an image server we have here after using an OEM preinstall disk & installing all of the drivers, programs, etc. I know I used the correct image, and all of the drivers & programs were installed correctly. He needs to map a drive so that he can retrieve programs, etc. from it. Unfortunately, when he right clicks on My Computer & selects "Map a Network drive" it does absolutely nothing. No matter which way we try to map the drive, it still won't do anything.

I really am not sure how I can fix this, and can find nothing on Microsoft's knowledgebase or Google that pertains to troubleshooting this kind of problem. Can anyone shed any light on this?

x-posted to compgeekz, computergeeks, computerhelp, and pcgeeks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/711435.html

Date: 06/23/05     Keywords: no keywords

I've recently noticed that my computer has a 100% CPU usage even though I don't have a lot of programs open (only AIM). I think I have enough RAM (512 mb) and I don't know what else it could be. My guess is that AIM takes up a lot of system resources, but a couple of times before, I didn't have AIM running and the computer was still at 100%. Anybody have any ideas? Maybe I should add more RAM like up to 1GB? Thanks.

By the way, I'm using Windows XP Home Edition SP2 and my computer is a Pentium 4 1.6 Ghz.

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