Hello to all,
My son (a gamer!) is having a problem with freezes and his monitor display
when playing Quake III, Halflife, Deltaforce Land Warrior, etc..... He is
concerned that it may be his Asus V6600 G-Force SGRAM video card. His system
includes an Asus K7M MOBO, 650 Athlon cpu, 128 SDRAM, Asus V6600 G-Force
SGRAM video card (approx 9 months old), US Robotics 56K modem, Sound Blaster
Live soundcard, Linksys 10/100 NIC, 40x Memorex CD rom, Samsung 6x DVD,
8x4x32 HP CD burner, running Windows 98 first edition on a home network (his
is NOT the server) running Winproxy (with DSL). He has the most current BIOS
and driver updates for his MOBO and video card, but has already tried various
combinations of previous drivers with the same results of freezes, etc. His
problem is that he freezes approx. 5 min into a game (even using the lowest
settings in the game) and continues periodically after that. After a reboot,
he sometimes gets a green spectrum across the top of his desktop and the temp
of the card reads at 175 when it should only be about 149. He knows its
overheating, but can't figure out why. He runs Smart Doctor all the time,
which is apparently suppose to keep the card from overheating, but still, it
overheats and freezes. Without Smart Doctor running, it also overheats and
freezes. He has written Asus twice for technical support, but has yet to get
a reply. Since they don't have a USA or Canandian support location, we have
not yet tried to call for support. Any advice or suggestions would be
greatly appreciated. As a note, he tells me that he had occasional freezes
when he first installed the card last March, but after he starting running
Smart Doctor, the freezes stopped until a couple of months ago and have been
getting more frequent. Also, he sometimes gets the illegal operation
message.
Thanks in advance,
Wendy Brown
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