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KDogRex · 01-08-2002, 01:02 PM

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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:

I have the GeForce III, Titanium 200. I have the newest Bios for my PC, and have an A-bit BH-6 motherboard. The video card fits into the brown slot on the board. I have 384 MB memory and am running P3 450.

The trouble: My games minimize on startup, almost as though they were crashing. When they are selected to maximize from the desktop tray, they run fine after that. This happens 90% of the time. Once, I tried running a demo of a game with high intensity graphics. The first try of the sample was choppy and the sound came on and off. The second attempt proved 100% successful.
Now, I thought that maybe I should go into my Bios configuration by selecting the programming page upon boot-up of my machine. I selected to have all things returned to default setup, since I had a frined over messing with the configuation a month ago. Now, when the PC boots up, it will not go past that screen without telling me that changes have occured, and that I should either enter setup or continue on with F1. I choose F1, and Windows boots.

What the flip is going on?
I had a frined suggest to down size the video card fro 32bit to 16bit, to see if that improved my gaming trouble, but he had no idea about the Bios changes unless I needed to turn on the Plug and Play feature...

I am in unknown territory messing with this stuff. It is over my head. Any suggestions are valuable.

Hmmm, that sounds more like an OS issue. or possibly an issue between your video card and the OS. Which one are you running? BIOS updates are good, but you may want to make sure you have the appropriate drivers for your OS. eg: Win2000 drivers will *WORK* in XP, but you'd be better off going to the card manufacturer's website to see if they have any specific XP drivers. Let me know, as I have XP and am thinking about upgrading to the GeForce 3!
-KDog

01-08-2002, 01:02 PM	#2
KDogRex Symbol of Cyric Join Date: March 5, 2001 Location: Minneapolis, MN USA Age: 56 Posts: 1,305	quote: Originally posted by Larry_OHF: I have the GeForce III, Titanium 200. I have the newest Bios for my PC, and have an A-bit BH-6 motherboard. The video card fits into the brown slot on the board. I have 384 MB memory and am running P3 450. The trouble: My games minimize on startup, almost as though they were crashing. When they are selected to maximize from the desktop tray, they run fine after that. This happens 90% of the time. Once, I tried running a demo of a game with high intensity graphics. The first try of the sample was choppy and the sound came on and off. The second attempt proved 100% successful. Now, I thought that maybe I should go into my Bios configuration by selecting the programming page upon boot-up of my machine. I selected to have all things returned to default setup, since I had a frined over messing with the configuation a month ago. Now, when the PC boots up, it will not go past that screen without telling me that changes have occured, and that I should either enter setup or continue on with F1. I choose F1, and Windows boots. What the flip is going on? I had a frined suggest to down size the video card fro 32bit to 16bit, to see if that improved my gaming trouble, but he had no idea about the Bios changes unless I needed to turn on the Plug and Play feature... I am in unknown territory messing with this stuff. It is over my head. Any suggestions are valuable. Hmmm, that sounds more like an OS issue. or possibly an issue between your video card and the OS. Which one are you running? BIOS updates are good, but you may want to make sure you have the appropriate drivers for your OS. eg: Win2000 drivers will WORK in XP, but you'd be better off going to the card manufacturer's website to see if they have any specific XP drivers. Let me know, as I have XP and am thinking about upgrading to the GeForce 3! -KDog __________________ When your email inbox contains only out of office replies, you know that others are having more fun than you...