First, as Donald Gaither said, you should reinstall DirectX 7.0a (download
from Microsoft).
If it doesn't help, disable the RAM boost program, and other similar
programs (like anti virues).
since you already disabled the onboard VGA, you shouldn't have any hardware
configuration problem.
You shouldn't need to reinstall any games at last.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley Marden" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 7:51 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] new voodoo3 2000


> I bought a computer some time around feburary it is an HP with an AMDK-2
500 with 64meg of ram (later another 64 meg stick was added). The
motherboard inside is an Asus p5s-vm. This motherboard has what they call an
onboard VGA card with 8 mb allocated from the system ram for video. Well
while this is all good in theory it really was not worth a flip. So i went
out and bought a new Voodoo3 2000 PCI card and installed it. I opened up the
case and disabled the onboard VGA with the jumpers. I also downloaded the
newest driver for the voodoo card, it is from July 1, 2000. The problem that
i am having is while i am playing games the system locks up. I cannot do any
endtasks or even get to the desktop. Just freezes. First it was just one
particular game but then it started in other games. The only thing that i am
able to do is a hard shutdown (Hold the power button 9 and that as everyone
knows is very bad. One of the games i also downloaded an update for that was
suppose to fix any problems with the voodoos and 3dfx cards. A few things i
thought of but wanted to run by everyone first are I have rambooster program
running from start up i have had this for sometime and has not caused any
problems that was aware of before but could this program cause such
problems? Also a few games i have used sense have wanted to analyze the
computer due to changes in video properties. Should i reinstall the games or
other programs to fix said problems.

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