I recently purchased an A-Bit Geforce4 Siluro 64mb Ti4200
1. During install of Windows 2000 (I wanted a clean install for my Geforce4) i noticed that the OS would not start the installation if my Geforce4 was sitting in the AGP slot. The startup procedures run (installing the drivers etc from the cdrom (or floppy)) but the actual installation wont take place. The screen turns black, and the system locks up. This has forced me to install the OS using my older Geforce2 MX card, and then revert to the Geforce4, once the OS is properly installed.
2. Whilst playing games with the Geforce4 installed, the system is prone to, what seem like random crashes. The screen freezes, the sound loops and I am again forced to restart the machine.
I have tried a number of games, including Unreal Tournament and Blood Omen 2, and the problem still persists. I have the latest 29.42 detonators from Nvidia installed, and the latest chipset drivers for the mainboard. I had also heard that the Soundblaster drivers can cause a lot of problems with incompatibility with certain pieces of hardware, and so, have updated those drivers also. As a last resort, I borrowed a friends copy of Windows XP and installed that, and but I am still getting these lock-ups, which leads me to believe that the problem is hardware related.
The only thing i can think of that COULD resolve the issue is maybe a Bios update for the mainboard, but I'm a little hesitant at the proposition of such a task, as it is about the only thing I have never done before...
Any advice in the area would be much appreciated.
My system specs are:
CPU AMD Athlon TB 1ghz
Mainboard: MSI - K7T pro 2 (MS-6330)
RAM: 512mb PC133 SDram
GFX: A-Bit Siluro 64mb Geforce4
Sound: Soundblaster Live! 1024
CD-R: Plextor 16x40x10 (IDE)
CD-rom: Plextor 32x (SCSI)
NIC: SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1255TX)
OS: Windows 2000
Thanks
1. During install of Windows 2000 (I wanted a clean install for my Geforce4) i noticed that the OS would not start the installation if my Geforce4 was sitting in the AGP slot. The startup procedures run (installing the drivers etc from the cdrom (or floppy)) but the actual installation wont take place. The screen turns black, and the system locks up. This has forced me to install the OS using my older Geforce2 MX card, and then revert to the Geforce4, once the OS is properly installed.
2. Whilst playing games with the Geforce4 installed, the system is prone to, what seem like random crashes. The screen freezes, the sound loops and I am again forced to restart the machine.
I have tried a number of games, including Unreal Tournament and Blood Omen 2, and the problem still persists. I have the latest 29.42 detonators from Nvidia installed, and the latest chipset drivers for the mainboard. I had also heard that the Soundblaster drivers can cause a lot of problems with incompatibility with certain pieces of hardware, and so, have updated those drivers also. As a last resort, I borrowed a friends copy of Windows XP and installed that, and but I am still getting these lock-ups, which leads me to believe that the problem is hardware related.
The only thing i can think of that COULD resolve the issue is maybe a Bios update for the mainboard, but I'm a little hesitant at the proposition of such a task, as it is about the only thing I have never done before...
Any advice in the area would be much appreciated.
My system specs are:
CPU AMD Athlon TB 1ghz
Mainboard: MSI - K7T pro 2 (MS-6330)
RAM: 512mb PC133 SDram
GFX: A-Bit Siluro 64mb Geforce4
Sound: Soundblaster Live! 1024
CD-R: Plextor 16x40x10 (IDE)
CD-rom: Plextor 32x (SCSI)
NIC: SMC EZ Card 10/100 (SMC1255TX)
OS: Windows 2000
Thanks