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Although $55 is alot, the VooDoo 5500 64 would be great for the cool factor if nothing else. It outperforms the VooDoo 3 by a decent margin. I miss mine, I was going to build a nostalgia rig with it too, but it burned up (along with my house among other things) a couple years ago in the...

I wonder what's going on, now a friend just had the same thing happen, must be a new hijack program floating around. I'm going to load Firefox on his too.

I had the same thing happen this AM. I got tired of messing with it and downloaded the FireFox app. with another PC, loaded it on the bad one. It's happily surfing the web now, but I too would like to know what happened.

Sounds like my system at my weekend place. It's a 1 gig celeron (256k cache) runnung at 1.4 gig, 512m Ram, TI4200 64m Ram. Unless you need support for DX9+ the 4200 is fine.

Thats my whole problem, I couldn't get far enough into windows to get at any directories. But I just totally screwed the pooch anyway, so without elaborating I'll just say thanks for the replies. >Mods: Please change my status from GAWD to DUMBASS

I didn't see the step by step, and no I have no XP CD, I run Win2K on all my stuff, and this guy's a slob, and lost all of his CD's and stuff that came with this PC. Oh well, maybe if I stick in a different vid card it might boot.

So I'm trying to be a nice guy to my tax man. His video card drivers somehow got uninstalled. No problem, I go into device manager, and remove, and on reboot Windows starts looking for drivers for a SIS 650. No problem, go to SIS's website and get the latest drivers for a SIS 650. Start loading...

Arg, it's not the PS, same thing happens. Must be a bad MOBO, and the place I bought it from won't take it back, since it's > 15 days since I bought it. What a pain in the ass. I guess I'll go pick up a MOBO at Fry's (easy returns!) and try it. This is not what I need right now......

Would have to be the VooDoo 3 2000 PCI. First time I actually saw MotoCross Madness run in 3D blew me away.

OK, I'll try a new PS first. I'll make sure to get a good one w/24 pin connector. Thanks guys.

Hey, I just built a system where the MOBO has a 24 pin power connector, and my power supply has 20. The Asus manual says it will work if it has the proper power at a given pin ( I don't recall which one now). Anyway, it's a 480 watt ps so I figured it would work, the problem I'm having is the...

Well, I guess I'll pick up a card at Fry's and see if it's the problem. I need to get it done tonight.

Hey, I just built a new semi budget rig. Asus P5GD1 P4 LGA 775 , 3.0 P4. 480 watt PS Everything powers up (fans on CPU and Vid Card spin up) HDD spins up, No video signal, no beeps, no keyboard response. I wonder if I got a bad card. It's the MSI 6600GT PCI-Express, got it from the Egg, or if...

Might be some spyware or other software running in the background. Have you tried reformatting?

Sometimes just the monitor, sometimes it would spontanioulsy reboot.

I had a similar problem, and it turned out to be a bad CPU (SOC 478 Celeron), popped in a P4 2.0 Northwood, and no more problems, put Celly back in and problems again. First time I've ever seen a bad CPU like that, it was good for a year or so before it died.

Would have to be a ........surprise, surprise.........FX5200. It was even a bad move up from a Kyro!

Try it without any overclocking on your CPU.

Yes. The 6800OC from BFG has a slightly overclocked core of 350Mhz vs. 325Mhz of a 6800NU.

VooDoo 3 2000 PCI. First time I actually saw a game rendered in 3d, I was hooked.

If it's a made by VIA P4PB Go here: http://www.viaembedded.com/product/Download.jsp?motherboardId=41 I have one of these mobos, it's stable as a rock, but not overclocker friendly.

I put them in not so fortunate friends pc's, to keep them kinda current.

I just had a similar problem, it turned out to be the CPU, I tried new power supply, video card, hard drive. I had another CPU laying around, stuck it in and no more problems. Who knows, spontainious reboots are sometimes hard to fix. Is your CPU overclocked at all? Could also be memory. Could...

It could be the new .net stuff in the latest control center. Go in in safe mode and run driver cleaner. Restart windows and let the default drivers load. Go to windows update and get all the latest updates and the .net framework if you want to use the new control center, or go to ati's website...

does this mobo support your procrssor, try reseating it, check jumpers, sometimes the clear cmos jumper comes in the clear position.

From [H] front page link: http://www.ocia.net/articles/6800/6800.shtml Pretty good article.

I'd run both and see which one has the best 2D quality, I had a GF3 which had the worst 2D I've ever seen, all fuzzy and blurry.

IIRC the 9800's with the floppy power connector are 128bit.

The resolutions in 3d are independent of your desktop resolution, so yes you can have a different resolution in your games without messing with your desktop settings.

You need more ram, 512 isn't enough for Far Cry, it might be hd swapping during those slow times. Anymore, 1 gig is now the minimum ram needed.

This will do it, but don't expect to run any games. I used one of these in a cheap workstation, and the 2d is great. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?DEPA=0&description=14-142-005&CMP=OTC-pr1c3watch&ATT=Video+Cards

Try it with your P4 at stock speeds. Have you tried running driver cleaner.

That's what I was thinking. Get AdaWare, SpyBot Search&Destroy, and Spyware Blaster. Run them, and see what they find.

Don't get that one it has the 128 Bit memory interface, making the 256 Meg of ram so slow it's useless: "Cinematic Rendering: Immerse yourself in the world’s fastest and most compelling game play, courtesy of the unprecedented speed and control of RADEON™ 9800 family of visual processors *...

Just make sure where it says AGP Overclock in MHZ, the value is 66.

Could be memory or PSU.

NP man, glad it worked.

Sometimes the wrong memory will do it, try different memory from a working computer. Also try reseating the processor, and reseat the power connections.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=813910

That did it, thanks!