Does your video card have a fan on it? It sounds very much like the video
card is overheating, this used to be a very common problem with 3d
accelerators (and still is to some extent since almost every new card has a
fan on it now, although some of those fans are there for show more than
function). Try cooling the video card a little more and see if that
eliminates the problem. Hope this helped, TTYL

----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Barnard <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 02:53
Subject: [PCBUILD] TNT2 system freezing often


> Hi
>
> I would be very glad if you could give me advice.
>
> My system looks as follows :
>  - Windows 98
>  - Sniper 2 (TNT2) manufactured by Powercolor
>  - Gigabyte 440LX motherboard (66MHz FSB) with 128MB of RAM
>  - Intel Celeron 466MHz
>  - DirectX7a
>  - latest Powercolor drivers (although I have tried all nvidia/detonator
> drivers)
>
>  When I play the Quake3 demo (OpenGL) the computer freezes after about
>  5 minutes. Sometimes the graphics changes into vertical lines before
>  the computer freezes.
>
>  With certain directX games, where there are lots of 3D effects, the
>  computer also freezes after about 5 minutes.
>
>  I am currently in communication with the manufacturer of the video card,
> but no solution has been suggested.
>
>  Thank you for your time. Any advice would be appreciated.
>
>  Charles Barnard
> Cape Town, South Africa
>
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