Hello everybody, I entered computer hell a few months ago when my completely ancient geforce2 gts 32 meg graphics card stopped rendering polygons.
Now, I figured this would be just the end of the card's life. It was something like three or four years old and the fan had stopped working on it. I had since replaced most every other part of my machine save the graphics card, so I lived with my machine not rendering 3d anything until I could afford a new card.
Well I got a geforce4 128 meg card, and when I installed it my computer still would not render polygons. I reformatted my machine and tried again, and it worked... for about 48 hours.
It may not be important, but I played Knights of the Old Republic on the fresh format solidly until my wife wanted a game of Diablo, so I installed Diablo, played a game, and when I went back to KotOR the game didn't load (see below). I went on to install the rest of my games and try them with similar results, some of which are listed below.
My current machine I've built myself, it's got:
duron 1.8 ghz processor
foxconn 748k7aa 400 mhz fsb mainboard
768 mb of ddr 400 ram
onboard sound (at the moment, I've got an audigy one I yanked out to see if that was maybe causing issues)
geforce4 mx 4000 agp with 128 meg o ram
None of these parts were installed in my machine when the problem first came up, so I have to assume it's either a software conflict of some kind or:
My power supply (400 watt, standard cooling)
Lack of cooling (new cpu fan, gpu doesn't have its own fan, have a tower fan but it's old)
My dodgy as hell cd rom drive that's due to be replaced (sometimes doesn't recognize cds, even in the command prompt. Machine still detects the drive, but the drive won't spin up)
My software:
Windows XP Pro sp1 (dodgy cd key prevents me from upgrading to sp2)
Standard nvidia forceware drivers (tried omega drivers as well, no dice)
Games:
diablo 2 (sprites with some low tech lighting, works)
deus ex (polygons, loads but crashes the moment I hit a key)
Star Wars: KotOR (doesn't load a new game, the old game I had after the fresh format will load but crash the moment I hit a key after loading)
Civ 3 Conquests (works; again, sprites)
JK2 (won't load)
Warcraft 3 (works on first install, once I quit the game and try to reload it won't load)
AOM: The Titans (loads menu but not game)
None of these games offer any error messages when they quit out, they simply disappear and I find myself staring at the desktop. Does anyone have any idea what it could possibly be? I've updated every driver I can find, flashed my bios, tried alternate drivers and none seem to change anything.
Thanks for your time
Kadim
Now, I figured this would be just the end of the card's life. It was something like three or four years old and the fan had stopped working on it. I had since replaced most every other part of my machine save the graphics card, so I lived with my machine not rendering 3d anything until I could afford a new card.
Well I got a geforce4 128 meg card, and when I installed it my computer still would not render polygons. I reformatted my machine and tried again, and it worked... for about 48 hours.
It may not be important, but I played Knights of the Old Republic on the fresh format solidly until my wife wanted a game of Diablo, so I installed Diablo, played a game, and when I went back to KotOR the game didn't load (see below). I went on to install the rest of my games and try them with similar results, some of which are listed below.
My current machine I've built myself, it's got:
duron 1.8 ghz processor
foxconn 748k7aa 400 mhz fsb mainboard
768 mb of ddr 400 ram
onboard sound (at the moment, I've got an audigy one I yanked out to see if that was maybe causing issues)
geforce4 mx 4000 agp with 128 meg o ram
None of these parts were installed in my machine when the problem first came up, so I have to assume it's either a software conflict of some kind or:
My power supply (400 watt, standard cooling)
Lack of cooling (new cpu fan, gpu doesn't have its own fan, have a tower fan but it's old)
My dodgy as hell cd rom drive that's due to be replaced (sometimes doesn't recognize cds, even in the command prompt. Machine still detects the drive, but the drive won't spin up)
My software:
Windows XP Pro sp1 (dodgy cd key prevents me from upgrading to sp2)
Standard nvidia forceware drivers (tried omega drivers as well, no dice)
Games:
diablo 2 (sprites with some low tech lighting, works)
deus ex (polygons, loads but crashes the moment I hit a key)
Star Wars: KotOR (doesn't load a new game, the old game I had after the fresh format will load but crash the moment I hit a key after loading)
Civ 3 Conquests (works; again, sprites)
JK2 (won't load)
Warcraft 3 (works on first install, once I quit the game and try to reload it won't load)
AOM: The Titans (loads menu but not game)
None of these games offer any error messages when they quit out, they simply disappear and I find myself staring at the desktop. Does anyone have any idea what it could possibly be? I've updated every driver I can find, flashed my bios, tried alternate drivers and none seem to change anything.
Thanks for your time
Kadim
