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October 5th 08, 09:48 PM
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Still using OLD 93.71 drivers. Anything newer stable?
My card is still running using the older 93.71 forceware. Most of the
newer drivers caused me BSOD's, freezing, pausing, corrupt booting and an increase in video card temps. Is there a 'newer' driver than 93.71 that wouldn't crash my comp but would show a good increase in performance? Here are the details of my old computer I use. "Windows XP Home Edition [SP2] 5.1.2600 Motherboard Asus A8S-X ID 63-0501-000001-00101111-082605-SiS756$A0217001_ BIOS DATE: 08/26/05 10:36:58 VER: 08.00.10 MB Chipset SiS 756, AMD Hammer CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU Venice S939 CPU Stepping DH-E6 Monitor: Proview 998/998A/998N(1239224727) Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS(256 MB) GPU Code Name NV41GS (x16 10DE/00C0 Rev A2) RAM 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) Corsair VS1GB400C3 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (@ 200MHz) HARD DRIVE Maxtor 6L080P0 DVD DRIVE: NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A" 
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October 5th 08, 10:58 PM
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Still using OLD 93.71 drivers. Anything newer stable?
"Robert Blass" wrote in message ... My card is still running using the older 93.71 forceware. Most of the newer drivers caused me BSOD's, freezing, pausing, corrupt booting and an increase in video card temps. Is there a 'newer' driver than 93.71 that wouldn't crash my comp but would show a good increase in performance? Here are the details of my old computer I use. "Windows XP Home Edition [SP2] 5.1.2600 Motherboard Asus A8S-X ID 63-0501-000001-00101111-082605-SiS756$A0217001_ BIOS DATE: 08/26/05 10:36:58 VER: 08.00.10 MB Chipset SiS 756, AMD Hammer CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU Venice S939 CPU Stepping DH-E6 Monitor: Proview 998/998A/998N(1239224727) Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS(256 MB) GPU Code Name NV41GS (x16 10DE/00C0 Rev A2) RAM 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) Corsair VS1GB400C3 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (@ 200MHz) HARD DRIVE Maxtor 6L080P0 DVD DRIVE: NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A" Crashing and BSOD doing what? Just running the OS and browsing the web? Newer drivers increase your video temp??? I would suspect your primary issue is a flaky old m/b chipset and very little will change that.
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October 5th 08, 11:36 PM
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Still using OLD 93.71 drivers. Anything newer stable?
Am Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:58:52 GMT schrieb Augustus:
I would suspect your primary issue is a flaky old m/b chipset and very little will change that. Oh..a hammer in the morning, tütütü.. Dirk
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#4
October 6th 08, 04:17 AM
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Still using OLD 93.71 drivers. Anything newer stable?
Augustus wrote:
"Robert Blass" wrote in message ... My card is still running using the older 93.71 forceware. Most of the newer drivers caused me BSOD's, freezing, pausing, corrupt booting and an increase in video card temps. Is there a 'newer' driver than 93.71 that wouldn't crash my comp but would show a good increase in performance? Here are the details of my old computer I use. "Windows XP Home Edition [SP2] 5.1.2600 Motherboard Asus A8S-X ID 63-0501-000001-00101111-082605-SiS756$A0217001_ BIOS DATE: 08/26/05 10:36:58 VER: 08.00.10 MB Chipset SiS 756, AMD Hammer CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU Venice S939 CPU Stepping DH-E6 Monitor: Proview 998/998A/998N(1239224727) Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS(256 MB) GPU Code Name NV41GS (x16 10DE/00C0 Rev A2) RAM 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) Corsair VS1GB400C3 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (@ 200MHz) HARD DRIVE Maxtor 6L080P0 DVD DRIVE: NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A" Crashing and BSOD doing what? Just running the OS and browsing the web? Newer drivers increase your video temp??? I would suspect your primary issue is a flaky old m/b chipset and very little will change that. Also what's his case like inside? How is everything ventilated? I've dealt with a pretty bad mid-atx case before where a 6800 GS AGP was subjected to overheating regularly by poor airflow and worn out case fans (212°F at one point!). Overheating causes all sorts of problems especially with flaky RAM. For the record, no driver should alter your GPU temp. Your video bios has a low level fan setting for duty cycle and unless you explicitly change it via software (Rivatuner, NTune) or overclock, your temps shouldn't change.
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October 6th 08, 05:35 AM
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Still using OLD 93.71 drivers. Anything newer stable?
"Robert Blass" wrote in message ...
My card is still running using the older 93.71 forceware. Most of the newer drivers caused me BSOD's, freezing, pausing, corrupt booting and an increase in video card temps. Is there a 'newer' driver than 93.71 that wouldn't crash my comp but would show a good increase in performance? Here are the details of my old computer I use. "Windows XP Home Edition [SP2] 5.1.2600 Motherboard Asus A8S-X ID 63-0501-000001-00101111-082605-SiS756$A0217001_ BIOS DATE: 08/26/05 10:36:58 VER: 08.00.10 MB Chipset SiS 756, AMD Hammer CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU Venice S939 CPU Stepping DH-E6 Monitor: Proview 998/998A/998N(1239224727) Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS(256 MB) GPU Code Name NV41GS (x16 10DE/00C0 Rev A2) RAM 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) Corsair VS1GB400C3 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (@ 200MHz) HARD DRIVE Maxtor 6L080P0 DVD DRIVE: NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A" Robert, you're running a second-rate chipset (SIS) and rather obsolete cpu. A driver update isn't going to do anything much for the system. Maybe a detectable difference in benchmarks, that's about it.
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#6
October 12th 08, 12:31 PM
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Still using OLD 93.71 drivers. Anything newer stable?
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:35:04 -0700, "nospam"
sayd the following: "Robert Blass" wrote in message ... My card is still running using the older 93.71 forceware. Most of the newer drivers caused me BSOD's, freezing, pausing, corrupt booting and an increase in video card temps. Is there a 'newer' driver than 93.71 that wouldn't crash my comp but would show a good increase in performance? Here are the details of my old computer I use. "Windows XP Home Edition [SP2] 5.1.2600 Motherboard Asus A8S-X ID 63-0501-000001-00101111-082605-SiS756$A0217001_ BIOS DATE: 08/26/05 10:36:58 VER: 08.00.10 MB Chipset SiS 756, AMD Hammer CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU Venice S939 CPU Stepping DH-E6 Monitor: Proview 998/998A/998N(1239224727) Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS(256 MB) GPU Code Name NV41GS (x16 10DE/00C0 Rev A2) RAM 1024 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM) Corsair VS1GB400C3 1 GB PC3200 DDR SDRAM (@ 200MHz) HARD DRIVE Maxtor 6L080P0 DVD DRIVE: NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A" Robert, you're running a second-rate chipset (SIS) and rather obsolete cpu. A driver update isn't going to do anything much for the system. Maybe a detectable difference in benchmarks, that's about it. uh, ok.. thanks
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