Pulling out my hair

[rhonedog]

I am wondering if ANYONE has any ideas why I would be getting freezing/total system crash. I can run Maya fine for a while, but as soon as I have a scene that has a mild number of polys, the system will either totally lock up or just crash completely. It seems to happen when I am orbiting around an object. I have tried replacing my Geforce3Ti200 with my old Geforce2GTS, but it still happens to me. I am COMPLETELY at my wits end with this new systam. Can ANYONE offer any ideas or suggestions on what may be wrong?

AMD Athlon XP2000+
I Gig of DDR ram
Gigabyte GA-V&RX+ ATA-133 RAID mobo
MSI Geforce 3 Ti200 Vid card
80Gig Maxtor HD
Clean install - Windows 2000 SP2

-Its not a Maya problem, because it happens in XSI as well as Maya 3
-I dont thinks its a video card issue, because my old system works like a dream with those video cards.

Do I have to sell my new system and get a whole new one again?!

[grocs]

unless someone else knows why its happening I would just re-install the OS and then only the important application software you use, like Maya or XSI, and then see if it works... if that doesn`t work then it could be a hardware issue.

[ozz-2005]

most often its a bad memory stick/s

try taking a stick out and see how it works. try it with every stick. maya will run with as little as 256 so you could try all of them.

try different drivers too. 21.83 seem to work very well.

or maybe installing the via 4in1 patch ? it might be an incompatability between your videocard and mobo...maybe AGP set too high. try lowering it down to 2x.?

[rivard]

Ambient Whisper is most probably right, it does sound like a memory issue. Keep the task manager open whilst you do stuff, check up to how much memory goes in there before it crashes, could be quite revieling.

[rhonedog]

Thanks for the suggestions thus far. I dont think its a memory problem. I have removed one stick of 512, then the other. Same problems. It is a clean install of Win2000, and I have updated with the Via4in1 patch. And finally Ive lowered the AGP to 1x. (ouch)

The ONLY other Idea I have is that I am using SoftQuadro/Rivatuner. My system freezes before tweak with those though. I dont think its a video card problem as I can fire up my p3 system with either card and it runs fine.

Thanks so far for all of your help, but are there ANY other suggestions anyone can offer before I go to the extreme and just get rid of this system entirely?

Ambient-Whisper, did you not just buy a similar system?

Mike R

[rhonedog]

It should also be noticed that these errors happen regardless whether I use my Geforce 2 GTS card, or my new Geforce3 200Ti. (In fact, the 200Ti model seems to crash more often.)

[1000101-]

This is a possible long shot but it could be worth a shot; since it worked in my via board.
First; power on the system with nothing but your video card.
Run a test that you know will lock it up. if it siezes; could be a faulty motherboard.
if not; then you've been hit with the same issue I got slammed with on 2 other via boards.
I managed to get it fixed; by ensuring that NONE of the cards were sharing any IRQ's by placing them in specific slots on the board.
Then put your cards in 1 at a time; I figure start with the network card; then the sound
after each run your test.
seems like alotta work I know.

[exodusmaximus]

Try downloading MP Patches - Large page patch especially.

[rhonedog]

Just to close this thread finally, as it turns out, the motherboard was the problem. The guys I bought it off of replaced it nd now it works like a dream. What a HUGE pain in the ass, but at least the system now works.

Mike