Lock down!!

[unmerged(11027)]

Nah it doesnt work.... :'( well only about 3 months till ill get the new comp....

 

[unmerged(24690)]

Too little memory

Hi.

First my Specs:

550 mhz intel p3
128 mb sdram
8 mb ati Xpert 98 agp 2x
Direct X 9.0b
OS: 98se
My problem:

This problem happens both when playing EU2 and HoI, and I'm getting annoyed. I'm experiencing random Lock down, which means that sometimes i can play for 2 hours, sometimes 5 minuts, I never know when it´s going to happen, but when it does i can only press the power button. Yes i have read the "infamous Inifinite LOOP AGP PROBLEM" that i could solve but uninstalling my VIA drivers, and reinstalling the originally ones, that lays on my install cd, but my drivers are directly from 98se cd, so it cant be that. I've have upgraded to 1.05c in HoI, and i have giving up on EU2. I have renamed the AVI to AVI_back, and i've tried all this again after formatting my comp.... so any other ideas how to solve this?

-Jackcolt
Any other ideas how to solve this??

I used to have this problem and I had 192 mb - increasing the amount of memory solved the problem

 

[Castellon]

He does not want to upgrade components since he is getting a new system.

 

[unmerged(11027)]

yeah, it would be stupid....

 

[Castellon]

Soon my friend soon.

 

[unmerged(11027)]

Yeah but it cant be soon enough... wahhh! I want to play HoI badly... hmm I don't know when is HoI2 going to hit the streets?

 

[Castellon]

Not for a little while at least.
It was only announce a short time ago.

 

[jpd]

<grin> Thank god for that. I need a new system too, mainly because by current one chokes on Vicky. (AMD Athlon XP1600+, 512 MB DDR RAM, GeForce 4 Ti4200, Audigy II).

It will be at least several months before the various hardware producers get their act together, and actually produce components that work together. Especially the socket 734 Athlon 64 platform has it's problems right now. A Gigabyte mobo actually refused reliable operation with 11 out of 14 A-brand memory modules in a big mobo/memory module reliability test last week.

Only the mobo from Asus was more or less reliable. That one choked on only one of the 14 memory modules.

Jan Peter

 

[Castellon]

Asus has been the only MoBo I have bought for a years and years.

 

[jpd]

My last Asus is from years and years ago. In fact, ever since I used IBM's Pentium clone (the Cyrix processor) I was adviced to abandon Asus and take Gigabyte instead. The power regulators Asus installed on it's mobo's back then couldn't handle the increased amps the Cyrix processor needed. Gigabyte used better regulators and capacitors, and could reliably operate the Cyrix. That one is still in use, btw., as a Novell file server.

Right now I am using a mobo from MSI, with my Athlon XP1600+ processor. And that had everything to do with mobo component layout. The board from Asus had the memory modules and the port connectors in the wrong location, preventing the installation of a large AGP board (like my GeForce 4), and a secondary external drive (I have a CD and DVD drive) in my midi casing.

The stuff you need to take into account when assembling a PC these days .....

Jan Peter

 

[Castellon]

I only have ever assembled my systems to have Intel chips, so no problems with the ASUS boards. I am running a P3B and a P4T and have been very happy with both.