David P Greer wrote:
Ian O wrote:
David
If you have problems with two 3D apps I suppose that tells you that
it isn't specifically a Google Earth question. I don't mean to be
critical, but you say "all drivers up to date", yet you have cat
6.3. Whilst this is not likely to be the cause of the problem, I
just wonder what you mean by up-to-date, and specifically, could you
confirm what AGP driver you installed? Have you the rest of the
Hyperion Pro drivers installed? The Asus also supports RAM in dual
channel mode, or so it says in front of me, so tell us, are you
running that, and what have you set in the BIOS for video,
fastwrites, aperture, etc? Generally, in my experience, the AGP
port driver is a good starting point however for this kind of crash.
Update to the latest release from viaarena.com and use dxdiag to
verify that AGP acceleration is shown as working. You might also
have a direct x problem, but I'd look at this last as you have OpenGL
issues. I've even had boards where my 9600 card needed more voltage
setting in BIOS. There are lots of things to try, but look at the
drivers first.
I'm using the Hyperion Pro 5.09A Via chipset drivers. I'm running
Kingston PC3200 RAM, 2x512 in dual channel mode, and Memtest ran
without errors when I first tested the initial build.
AGP Fastwrite is enabled, and the aperture is set at 128MB.
I thought the Catalyst 6.3 were the latest WHQL drivers, though there
are some newer releases that are not WHQL, if that matters.
OK, I see what you mean. I've never put much emphasis on WHQL in this
context, but you do have a point. You do sound as if you know what you
are doing, hope I didn't appear to suggest otherwise!! ;-)
I see there is a 1009 BIOS release, which states, in part, that it
fixes an AGP texture issue. I'm going to go ahead and update the BIOS
and see if that makes a difference.
Like the sound of that!
Thanks for the feedback. You've given me several things to look at.
David
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