Please Riva God... save me from this hell..<P>I have a P2350, Intel 440BX motherboard, 128 mg ram, Intel PCI NIC, and Riva TNT AGP...<P>All drivers and bios are updated (although it never made any difference -- crashed before, crashes now...)<P>The problem: 3d games run just fine when I remove the NIC card from the machine. BUT 3d games crash hard (total freeze) when I try to run games with NIC card installed (doesn't matter which PCI slot it's in)<P>There is no apparant IRQ conflict.... I'm at a complete loss.<P>Any help/suggestions are most appreciated. I'm starting to think it's a motherboard hardware fault.<P>Thanks!<BR>Gordon
Thanks for the help!<P>I've already tried two different NICs with two different sets of drivers... no difference<P>Aaaargghhhh<P>
Use a ISA NIC card and your problem is solved, I play lan quake, delta force land warrior, and the connection speeds are ok with my ISA card.<BR>TNT2 ULTRA + 3com 3c509b nic card<BR>
Does your system have enough power supply ?(sorry, I don`t know the english word for german "Netzteil")I hope you know what I think of... <br> <br> Your Riva TNT needs much power and I think that there is no more for<br> your Intel NIC PCI card left. Because of this, some older mobo`s<br> don`t work with TNT/TNT2. <IMG SRC="smileys/hot.gif">
Jonathan could be right (I had that problem with my old K6/2).<br> <br> If you have an old AT psu lying around, run all your drives off of that and see if it sorts the problem.<br> <br> If it does buy a beefier psu. A nice big Enermax 500Watt beasty...nice!<br> <br> Of course if you own a proprietry pc (ie Packard Bell, Compaq etc) you're screwed. Get yourself some Alienware!