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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 12/27/2001 9:51:55 PM   
JohnVH



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Status: offline 		Whenever I play G2, or my combat flight sim, I get about 1-8min. flight time and the stupid thing freezes, sounds like a record skipping, the picture is there, but no buttons, mouse, remote, ctrl+alt+delete does nothing, only alternative is to hit restart or shut it off manually.

Would LOVE any help. Geforce2, AMD athlon, 1.333, ASUS mother board.

HELP

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 12/27/2001 10:08:41 PM   
Elwood



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Status: offline 		I have the same issue with G2. I have;

[list]
Win ME
K6-2 550
192 MB Ram
Nvidia Ti 200
[/list]

I am going to update the drivers the video card, and make sure that the following is correct in my bios. This is from PNY.com for my card.

The settings described here should provide maximum performance and stability:
Fast Writes - Enabled.
AGP Mode - 2x or 4x, depending on whether your motherboard supports AGP4X or not.
AGP Driving Control - Auto.
AGP Aperture - see 'What should my AGP Aperture size be set to?' question.
Assign IRQ to VGA - Enabled.
Video BIOS Shadow - Disabled.
Video BIOS Cacheable - Disabled.
C8000 - xxxxx Shadow - Disabled.
Peer Concurrency - Enabled.
Concurrent PCI Host - Enabled.
PCI Streaming - Enabled.
VGA Palette Snoop - Disabled.
You can also try these settings if you are having problems:
Memory hole between 15-16MB - Enabled.

[URL=http://www.pny.com/home/techsupport/GC_faq.cfm]http://www.pny.com/home/techsupport/GC_faq.cfm[/URL]

Let me know what happens. I will do the same after work...

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 12/30/2001 9:55:47 PM   
magnum



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Status: offline 		JohnVH,

Which Asus MB do you have the A7M with onboard sound? I have not troubleshooted my system yet. But I suspect it's a problem with the onboard sound. After about a minute of flight the system crashes, sometimes rebooting.

Note: I am running Deluxe. Have not been able to install G2, have to send my disk back.

Randy

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 12/30/2001 9:58:12 PM   
JohnVH



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Status: offline 		Its the A7A266
I think I got it figured out, its overheating. I took the side off the box and run it and it seems to run fine or very close to it that way!

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 12/30/2001 10:05:41 PM   
magnum



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You are lucky, I had to take my A7A266 back. Never could get it to load Windows ME. Check around the net. There are some known problems with that MB. I opted for the A7M 266 worked great. Except for G2

Anway, I never put the covers on my computers. They stay cooler.

Randy

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 12/30/2001 10:10:38 PM   
JohnVH



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Status: offline 		I had windows XP on it for a while too, but kept having problems so I put 98 in it and still had some issues. traced it to a bad sound card. It works pretty good now, so far.

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 12/31/2001 8:39:07 PM   
Elwood



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Status: offline 		I looked over my BIOS settings, and found that Video Bios Shadow was enabled. I disabled it, and there was no change. I also changed the aperture, no change, it still locks up. Perhaps it is not us but rather an issue with RealFlight? I do not have trouble with any other game out there...

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 12/31/2001 8:46:49 PM   
Brad_S


 

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Status: offline 		Does it seem to freeze up on a change in background music? Make sure you have the newest drivers for your sound and video cards.
Maybe try turning off any background souns (start with the music) and see what happens.

Brad Streeter

PS Make sure that you are not running any background applications, such as virus protection software or anything else that could cause G2 to freeze up. Because of the sophistication of the software, it needs all the computing power you can give it.

< Message edited by Brad_S -- Dec 31 2001 3:56PM >

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 12/31/2001 11:39:19 PM   
Elwood



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Status: offline 		Perhaps the best route may be to disable the sound card...

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 1/1/2002 12:24:51 AM   
RCadmin



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Status: offline 		I also have the A7A266. Been lucky and have had no problems with G2. Rare freezing but that's it. Do you have the probe installed to monitor the MB temp?

also, I d/l the drivers for my pny geforece 3 ti500 card from the nvidia website and it was a little flaky. I redownloaded the original drivers from PNY and all is working perfect.

There were people as said above that had problems with this M/B but mine has been ok so far. I keep the Asusprobe on and it monitors temp and voltage.

Elwood. Maybe try the nvidia drivers. perhaps they may work for you? Can't hurt

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freezing - 1/1/2002 2:37:46 AM   
T28pilot



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Status: offline 		Get rid of that processor

it doesn't have enuff emuph to run your video card

why would you run a geforce3 ti 200 on a k6/2 machine?

Win ME
K6-2 550
192 MB Ram
Nvidia Ti 200

no no no........

processors are cheap now go get one and i bet it works

i just got my daughter a new motherboard and processor a 1.4 amd athalon for 160.00......put it in yourself ...you can do it......and walla......look here for prices for parts for your computer

http://www.pricewatch.com

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 1/1/2002 6:35:15 AM   
Elwood



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Look at the first post and you will see that the system listed there is close to what you stated, but there is an issue. My system is well within the system requirements listed on the box for G2. If the computer is within the requirements, and it still locks up, it is an application issue. A slow or fast processor will not matter if the code needs a little tweaking.

Elwood

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Direct X - 1/3/2002 2:21:22 AM   
T28pilot



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Status: offline 		Have you downloaded the newest version of Direct X 8a or 8.1?

sometimes that can be a factor:p

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 1/3/2002 2:55:04 AM   
dant-RCU


 

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Status: offline 		Might not help you a bit but you might run "dxdiag" from the command line and walk through the various tabs/pages and check out what DirectX is doing or not doing on your system.

Dan


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Fixed It! - 1/6/2002 6:01:53 AM   
Elwood



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Status: offline 		Time to eat a little crow...

I downloaded the AGP driver for the motherboard from Gigabyte, and now it runs fine. I thought it was updated...

I ran it for 30 minutes using my patented Stress Test. I trimmed the plane a little off, let it fly and crash again and again as I went and did something else. Now when I have the time, she should work again!

Want to have some fun? Hot rod the turbine engine for the F-86, and fly from inside! RealFlight didn't make the field big enough!

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Anyone know what would make a computer freeze? - 1/6/2002 6:03:57 AM   
JohnVH



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Status: offline 		I have a 400MPH speed limit on mine, jets get too 399 then just stop in the air, then start again from where they stopped with 0 airspeed, very weird!! anyone else have that?

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