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44.03 driver issues?
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Dual Boot Windows ME / Server 2003 Nvidia drivers 44.03 MSI Ti42008x Tyan Tiger 100 S1832DL dual P3-800 Motherboard, 1GB ram, SBlive sound, Promise 133/TX ATA controller, Compaq Netelligent nic. System has been stable in the past, far as I can tell, but the problems started when I rebuilt the system with Server 2003 and 44.03 drivers. 2003 by default sets the video performance slider turned right down. So I push it to full acceleration, and turn on write combining. Then seemingly at random I get these screen crashes. The system is still working, but the screen is total gibberish, as if I'm using the wrong driver. If I turn off write combining, everything works. So it looks like I should either go back to 43.45 drivers or try the 45.20 drivers. I've been trying to download them from Guru3D but keep getting gateway timeouts. Anyone have details on what write combining actually does and how much performance impact, if any, it would make? |
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Interesting note: I was browsing the storage newsgroup and found out
that some Promise controllers have dma conflicts with some Nvidia cards, and turning off write combining sometimes fixes it. I wonder if this is related to updating the Promise driver to their latest one for 2003. "Mr. Grinch" wrote in 3.159: System details: Dual Boot Windows ME / Server 2003 Nvidia drivers 44.03 MSI Ti42008x Tyan Tiger 100 S1832DL dual P3-800 Motherboard, 1GB ram, SBlive sound, Promise 133/TX ATA controller, Compaq Netelligent nic. System has been stable in the past, far as I can tell, but the problems started when I rebuilt the system with Server 2003 and 44.03 drivers. 2003 by default sets the video performance slider turned right down. So I push it to full acceleration, and turn on write combining. Then seemingly at random I get these screen crashes. The system is still working, but the screen is total gibberish, as if I'm using the wrong driver. If I turn off write combining, everything works. So it looks like I should either go back to 43.45 drivers or try the 45.20 drivers. I've been trying to download them from Guru3D but keep getting gateway timeouts. Anyone have details on what write combining actually does and how much performance impact, if any, it would make? |
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Yep, I definately have the latest bios, from Oct 2001. I'm thinking it
might have something with the promise driver or ntfs. I've run fat32 until now. Thanks for the tip though! JRS wrote in : I had an older duallie Tyan with the Athlon MP CPU's. Also had issues when write combining was on until a BIOS update came around from Tyan that resolved it. Have you checked the Tyan site for a newer mobo bios?? Interesting note: I was browsing the storage newsgroup and found out that some Promise controllers have dma conflicts with some Nvidia cards, and turning off write combining sometimes fixes it. I wonder if this is related to updating the Promise driver to their latest one for 2003. "Mr. Grinch" wrote in .223.159: System details: Dual Boot Windows ME / Server 2003 Nvidia drivers 44.03 MSI Ti42008x Tyan Tiger 100 S1832DL dual P3-800 Motherboard, 1GB ram, SBlive sound, Promise 133/TX ATA controller, Compaq Netelligent nic. System has been stable in the past, far as I can tell, but the problems started when I rebuilt the system with Server 2003 and 44.03 drivers. 2003 by default sets the video performance slider turned right down. So I push it to full acceleration, and turn on write combining. Then seemingly at random I get these screen crashes. The system is still working, but the screen is total gibberish, as if I'm using the wrong driver. If I turn off write combining, everything works. So it looks like I should either go back to 43.45 drivers or try the 45.20 drivers. I've been trying to download them from Guru3D but keep getting gateway timeouts. Anyone have details on what write combining actually does and how much performance impact, if any, it would make? JRS Please remove **X** to reply... If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then I'm the world's most dangerous man! |
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