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Howdy to y'all...
My Opteron 146-based system has been acting up a lot lately. These are the stats:
Gigabyte K8N SLI (nForce4 SLI chipset)
2 pieces of 1 GB PC3200 Crucial DDR SDRAM
Western Digital 250 GB SATA drive (7200 RPM, 16 MB cache)
Soundblaster X-Fi Gamer
D-Link DWL-G510 wireless network card
BFG GeForce 7900GS OC PCI-express video card
XClio Goodpower 500 watt power supply
I've been having a lot of intermittent freezes when running most OpenGL-based applications, whether they're games or molecular modelling. I've tried swapping out CPU's, motherboards, even memory, hard drives, etc., and even stripping things down to as bare-bones as possible, but the freezes still occur.
Most D3D apps also freeze, although it's odd the way things happen. When I play a demanding game such as Neverwinter Nights 2, with lots of detail turned up, the game is fine, and I don't get any freezes. When I play something like Half Life2 or the original Half-Life (either D3D or OpenGL), I get the freezes.
Basically, the game will seize up for about 10-20 seconds, while the sound continually loops. Eventually, it unfreezes.
What did work, though, was when I replaced the video card with my old GeForce 6600 GT PCI-e card. Now the freezes don't happen anymore at all.
I doubt it's my power supply, since this power supply was previously powering up twin GeForce 6800 GT video cards without a hitch.
What do y'all think? Bad video card? Or am I missing something on the software side?
Thanks!
My Opteron 146-based system has been acting up a lot lately. These are the stats:
Gigabyte K8N SLI (nForce4 SLI chipset)
2 pieces of 1 GB PC3200 Crucial DDR SDRAM
Western Digital 250 GB SATA drive (7200 RPM, 16 MB cache)
Soundblaster X-Fi Gamer
D-Link DWL-G510 wireless network card
BFG GeForce 7900GS OC PCI-express video card
XClio Goodpower 500 watt power supply
I've been having a lot of intermittent freezes when running most OpenGL-based applications, whether they're games or molecular modelling. I've tried swapping out CPU's, motherboards, even memory, hard drives, etc., and even stripping things down to as bare-bones as possible, but the freezes still occur.
Most D3D apps also freeze, although it's odd the way things happen. When I play a demanding game such as Neverwinter Nights 2, with lots of detail turned up, the game is fine, and I don't get any freezes. When I play something like Half Life2 or the original Half-Life (either D3D or OpenGL), I get the freezes.
Basically, the game will seize up for about 10-20 seconds, while the sound continually loops. Eventually, it unfreezes.
What did work, though, was when I replaced the video card with my old GeForce 6600 GT PCI-e card. Now the freezes don't happen anymore at all.
I doubt it's my power supply, since this power supply was previously powering up twin GeForce 6800 GT video cards without a hitch.
What do y'all think? Bad video card? Or am I missing something on the software side?
Thanks!