----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald E. Gulmire, Jr." <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 12:11 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Graffics Card Hangs Up System


> I just put together a AMD K-7 800 system with an Asus K7V motherboard and
> 96 mgs of RAM.  I use windows 98SE.  I have a Creative Labs Blaster Savage
> 4 accelerator card.  My  graphics card hangs my system up.  It just
> freezes.  I have it in the no. 1 PCI slot as recommended.  I have the
> motherboard set to plug and play.  I have adjusted all setting in the BIOS
> to the cards specs.  When I use the windows default drivers my system
> doesn't hang.  I have set my max. aperture to 32 mgs.  I used the card in
> my old system which was a Pentium II 233 with 128 mgs of RAM and it worked
> fine.  I called tech support with no results.  Could I have some kind of
> conflict?  I'm great with a screwdriver, but I don't seem to know enough
> about configuring the system to dig myself out of this hole!  I  have
> turned down my hardware acceleration, and if I turn it all the way down it
> doesn't seem to hang.  It hangs every time I connect to the Internet (I
> have DLS  with an EtherFast 10/100 LAN card if this matters

This sounds like classical driver problem which means that you need to
download the latest savage driver. S3 savage based card has "long" history
driver problem, if you use the driver on CD, you will need to uninstall
existing driver and then load the latest.
You'll also need to install latest chipset driver (especialy for VIA chip)
believe it or not, both IE and Netscape are graphics related. you can find
similar subject line in both MS knowledge base and Netscape support page -
if you experience system freeze or internet crash during openning internet,
you will need to use the latest graphics driver (and hopefully fix the
problem).

Good luck

Jun Qian

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