I did the same upgrade on a similar PC (pentium 2 cpu instead of amd) with
the same card and had the same problem. The fix was to put an older driver
for the video card.

Paul Mailhiot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradley Marden" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 5:51 AM
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. Or is a new windows install
warrented(last resort i hope)? Or does an onboard vga card cause problems
with installed vga cards? Or is it something simple i have not thought of.
Sorry about the length but wanted to be through with everything.
>
> TIA
>
> Bradley Marden
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