I have just gotten:
Dell 530
dual 1.7 xeon
1gig ram
Nvidia quadra 2 pro
100 gig hd
win 2000
Maya keeps locking/freezing when I use the hotbox. It doesnt happen every time, but 2-3 times a day. when it happens, I have to hard reboot. no other option.
I have set the virtual memory to the highest it will go, approx 8gigs, I have set the hardware pref for the Nvidia to “maya”.
please help! I have a technician, but he mostly deals with networking, and doesnt have the time to help me anyway and I seem to know as much as he does anyway.
I’m running Maya 4 on a Geforce 2 Ti which was Soft Quadro’ed to Quadro specs. This is on Win 2000 Pro on an ASUS A7V mobo with 1Ghz Athalon. Mine seems to have the same problem, and I know that it only occurs when I have hardware overlays turned on. Try turning yours off and see if it imporves. At least that will narrow it down some.
my guess is it has to be video card related definetly if not then I’ve heard the PIV xeons at 1.7ghz sometimes lock up or because of the motherboard etc - not sure (as opposed to the 1.5 ghz xeons)
at work I run a Dell 620 dual 1ghz PIII xeon
2.5gig ram
2 gigs virtual memory
wildcat 4210
and this machine is a tank running NT4 sp6, maya 4.0. It never locks up at all and is on 24/7
cause im on a geforce 2 gts 32mb from elsa with t he softquadro drivers (patched and used the anit-protection thing on them) on win 2k with a PIII 800 512 megs ram and im rock stable here
have you tried lowering your agp to 2x or even 1x (you shouldnt notcied any difference in speed)
I’ve been having some problems with my GVX1. Strange thing is that it seems driver related, but it just started happening, and I haven’ changed anything on my system. I assume it has something to do with the fact that I’m using Maya 4 with Win2K, but it’s really baffling me. At any rate, I’m curious about the “enable back buffer support”. What exactly is it, and is it specific solely to the softquadro setup? Thanks.
Back bufer has to deal with somethings that are kept in the videocards ram
im sure other cards have it but the reg edit i have is for geforce based cards not anything else
see the regular drivers dont allow you to turn on backbuffer support but if you have a quadro card you can so if you softquadro your card then you can turn on the backbuffer
First off you should let Windows manage your swap space…bumping it to a ridiculous is going to help…
if you have all RAM slots taken up..try taking one out and see if you get this problem…sometimes…some motherboards have issues with high density RAM chips occupying all RAM slots…my board did that with me…i called tech support with my manufacturer (Tyan) and they pointed me to a BIOS upgrade…everything works fine…i would say call Dell and tell them…they have excellent tech support…
Bring it on