HELP NEADED Air Attack

[COBRA/Highlander]

I have fitted a new PIII 850 CPU to a Abit 6EII motherboard running 256MB Memory and a RAGE MAXX 64MB Graphics card.

Now all was fine till SUNDAY when you all would have seen Highlander comeing in shooting at you then dissapering, well first I apolgise for this and this is the PROBLEM.

Now I get to connect and after some 1 or 2 mins get booted back to the SUBMIT SCREEN of the client.

I have reloaded the game frome the new clients.

I have put on the latest BIOS for the Motherboards and also the Graphics Card.

The only way that I can make it work is to turn the GRAPHIS down in the game and all is well but looks S***E as you will understand.

Now before you all start shouting "GREAT HE IS NOT ON ANY MORE" this is driveing me nuts.

All I wanted was a new CPU PIII 850 whats wrong with that, in the end I have reloaded the OS and the Client for the game and all software that I would need to play it IE soundcard and joystick video drivers but still NO luck.

Any help would be greatfull.

A very desparate COBRA / Highlander

[[TSQN] Fu11]

so you NEAD help eh?

and not only in your spelling dept.! ;)

to be honest, i've had a think, and i can't figure out why what's happening, is happening, there are many more technically minded peepidee's on them thar forums, so hopefully they'll sort you out m8yyyyyy...

pIII 850? showoff :E

[COBRA/Highlander]

Sorry Fu11 for the Spelling never was my strong point.

[[TSQN] Fu11]

apology accepted :)

[Rocky]

Hi Cobra. I had a similar problem some months back and updated the Graphics Card drivers to the latest version, problems went away. I think you suggest you've already done this, in which case, I'm of no further help.

Sorry mate, wish I could help more, but someone will come along shortly with a fix for you, helful people in here as you know.

[[TSQN] Fu11]

like the man rocky said, you positive they are the latest drivers? as i'm sure anyone will tell you, is so easy to be using the wrong drivers due to poorly labelled downloads etc, been there, done that :-/

good luck all the same :)

[SonicYoof]

Try dimming the lights, stripping naked and sacrificing a chicken whilst dancing the twist. Always works for me :E

[PAZZI]

Excellent - FFA will ba a safer place for us all - keep Highlander out as long as possible I say!

:E

(btw I had a similar problem on and off with the old NT server - I'd get booted after 1 or 2 mins for no apparent reason. I never figured out what was going wrong).

[BeelzebubUK]

Hehe....I was rounds Cobras last night watching him trying to fix this problem and trying my best to be helpful and supportive (ie I kept telling him I should have the P3 850 and the graphics card and the problems would disappear)

God knows what was wrong though. The only time it was stable was running with no textures or smoke or haze and running at 320x240. Looked great in technicolour :)

We updated the modem drivers, the graphics drivers, uninstalled AA and downloaded it from the website and reinstalled letting it update itself.

He has neglected to mention that the motherboard only supports up to 800mhz in the BIOS although it is picking it up as a 850mhz in the BIOS startup. Not sure whether having the clock multiplier wrong in the BIOS would maybe cause the graphics card to mess about. (clock multiplier is set to 8.0 instead of 8.5)

I'd suggest putting an old graphics card in to test that and if that doesnt work put the old P3 500 back in (and give me the 850 of course :E )

[[TSQN]St Peter]

Drivers, or temperature? Do like the Rockmeister says first and if the dont work, investigate some more efficient cooling of cpu and card.

[BeelzebubUK]

Its not running hot at all and everythings got the latest drivers. But........I just found a BIOS update for the motherboard that supports 850mhz so hes gonna put that on tonight.

[COBRA/Highlander]

Thanks lads I have two new BIOS updates and will try these out tonight.

So if you se the OLD Highlander in and KILLING especially PAZZI after his comment then you will know its all working again.

If you see me in and then out again I am not hitting ESCAPE as thats not my STYLE, as many of other SO CALLED PILOTS do all the time.

Again thanks to all that INPUTED to this thread.

COBRA / Highlander

[COBRA/Highlander]

Good morning all, well I know your all waiting with baited breath, to know if what was said worked.

Well the BIOS was added and then at 9.00 I tried again and YES it CRASHED OUT AGAIN.

I set it to all sorts last night but nothing seemed to work, and before any one says "You were in killing me " last night , YES I was and only after replacing the PIII 500 and reseting the BIOS to that you, then and only then all was working as should be.

I am at a loss the Pepole that make the BOARD or INTEL or even Microsoft have not a CLUE so im stuffed and have to stay with the 500 till I suss it.

Again thanks all for the INPUT and for not hitting this THREAD too hard with CRAP.


COBRA / Highlander

PS PAZZI this means im in the air again and LOOKING for YOU hehehehehehehehhehehe. LOL

[Ghost [Borg]]

Originally posted by COBRA/Highlander

Again thanks all for the INPUT and for not hitting this THREAD too hard with CRAP.


Originally posted by SonicYoof
Try dimming the lights, stripping naked and sacrificing a chicken whilst dancing the twist. Always works for me

ROFL!

If I ever get any problems with this I ain't comming here to find help! :E :eek: :E

[COBRA/Highlander]

Yeh I hate doing it also but when all else FAILS try the NB..


COBRA / Highlander

[PAZZI]

Oh dear, Highlander's back!

I'd better get myself an alias so he doesn't find me!!!

:eek:

(Or I could stick to my usual tactic - RUN AWAY!).

[COBRA/Highlander]

I will find you no matter what NAME you have M8, LOL hehehheh

THERE can BE only ONE


COBRA / Highlander

PS I have loads of ALIAS's also as I now have 4 data.all files to pull from heheheheheh.