dj_pirtu wrote on 2022-04-04, 08:36:Tried so far:
Geforce3 Ti200
Geforce4 Ti4200
Quadro4 980XGL
Geforce FX5900XT
Geforce 6600GT
Geforce 6800XT […]
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Tried so far:
Geforce3 Ti200
Geforce4 Ti4200
Quadro4 980XGL
Geforce FX5900XT
Geforce 6600GT
Geforce 6800XT
None of those aren't fully stable. In FlatOut2 it's crashing in minutes or when idling in desktop. Sometimes blue screen, d3d9.dll error, sometimes screen freeze or reboots.
Radeon 9600, 9700, X800Pro are all fine, not one problem.
Tested so far a GeForce2 Ultra and a GeForce 6800GS, both pass a cycle of 3DMark2001SE (edit: 6800GS looped 3DMark for a couple of hours since I posted this, no issues).
Specs:
Abit KT7A V1.1
450W PSU (16A on 12V, 32A on 5V, fully re-capped)
Ahtlon XP-M Barton @ 16x100, 1.55V (16x133 or 2133Mhz crashes Win98 setup, I'll have to look into that)
256MB RAM
Win98SE, DirectX 8.1, VIA 4.43
Forceware 66.94, SBA disabled, FW disabled (6800GS had to be force-installed with 66.94 because the card was released after this driver came out)
Everything seems to be working fine... I can test something in-between the GeForce2 and the 6800, but I don't see the point...
I think you have a PSU and mobo cap issue.
One odd freeze I got was after my first reboot post Forceware install... I went into device manager to see if my GeForce2 was listed (I modded a Quadro2 with the resistor method so I wanted to see if it worked), and the mouse froze. I'll attribute that to a fluke for now, maybe VIA oddities, maybe the GeForce2, maybe because I had fast writes enabled (disabled after that happened), maybe JMicron to VIA southbridge IDE, I dunno... I never fully trusted VIA and I still don't. (Fixed. Mobile Barton needed 1.6V, not 1.55V). Well, not fixed... Mouse cursor froze again after a reboot post-unofficial SP install... Looks like this WIP continues. Ok, found the issue... Replaced the JMicron SATA adapter with the good Marvell one, mouse jerkiness is gone now as well.
EDIT: You might consider trying different RAM... I forgot that this board only likes Hynix RAM so far at 133Mhz. Micron and Infineon cause crashing but Hynix is perfectly stable. At 100Mhz, they all work fine.