I have heard a lot about people having conflicts with IRQ 9. Could be a problem with Win2k or could be a problem with the drivers windows installs. Either way it seems that IRQ 9 is the beloved IRQ of windows and that seems to be causing some conflicts due to excessive sharing. You guys should try turning off PCI sterring but that would also lose APM support

Any way to force hardware to use a different Interrupt Request?

anyone knoe where i can find the 3.66 drivers for the geforce, from the front page it sounds like that may work...

I have found some postings on newsgroups about win2k having a tough time on VIA chipsets. I do have a south bridge VIA chip, do we have this in common maybe?

no, mine is intel bx chipset and it still hard freeze sometimes but it seems to be random, no idea what causes it

Your lockups are caused bij your setup..
If you got an Athlon and Geforce it'll lockup randomly..(I have got the same prob).
I decided too install Windows Millenium Build 2470..
Beta though..
I hope Microsoft comes with a BIG patch/fix to fix this VERY irritating problem..
I have no idea what to do against the prob (sorry) but i do know that if you ain't gonna install Win95/98/SE/ME you will be stuck with this problem untill Microsoft comes with a patch/fix..
I hoped I helped you out..
Good luck in fixing it..

Quote:Originally posted by KnYnE:
My computer seems to freeze at random times with no error log record. NT does not even know that something has happened. Mouse and keyboard stop responding. power off is the only fix...

sd-11 athlon 600
256 ram
geforce
mx300

Dude, either use the Nvidia 3.66 Drivers or if you are running drivers higher than that then replace nv4_mini.sys in your winnt\system32\drivers directory with a copy of nv4_mini.sys from the 3.66 driver set.

That should fix those erratic ass freeze ups.
Just for fun though put in only 64 megs of ram and I bet you dont freeze. Pretty odd eh? 128 and higher seems to cause freezes without the above fix.

Athlon 550-->650 on a K7Pro
Geforce 3D prophet SDR 135core 190mem
256 Crucial cas2 pc133
13.6 maxtor 7200 drive
intel nic
sb live blah blah blah

:-)

no athlon and no geforce or tnt and it still freeze sometimes

I agree that the problem does not seem limited to just athlons or any piece of hardware but i would love to try the 3.66 drivers, where can i get them??????
 
please a link would be nice

I also agree that the problem isn't just with the Athlon and Geforce. I noticed that Microsoft has posted some customer support diagnostics on their website. I think we should all download them and post the results for comparison (of course let Microsoft know also). The link to the download is: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/otherdownloads/symbols/default.asp
 
If you're on dialup don't bother because a full download is 104Mb for diagnostics and 94Mb for symbols. Feel free to email me if you want: evanwaite@home.com

I am beginning to think it may be my dual boot, mixed fat and ntfs drives, because I don't recall (not 100% sure tho) that this freeze happens when I had only W2K and ntfs in my box.

I've got a dual boot with Win98 (FAT32) and Win2k (NTFS). Never tried it with just Win2k so I don't know if that's the problem. I really hope that Microsoft would have predicted that setup though! Would the other people with this problem post a reply about any dual boot or mixed file formats they run.
Thanks

i also have a mixed setup, my system has ntfs as the primary drive and the rest are fat 32... anyone else also have this... its as good this as anything, i'm gonna see if i can convert my other drives

lockup part whatever...
dear billy, aka MS,
 
it seems that alot of us are having trouble with various configurations of win2k and coresponding hw locking up.
 
current setup: asus K7M, athlon 600, 256 Ram, adaptec u2w scsi, ibm 18gb 10k, geforce 32ddr.
 
upon complete clen install, lockup occurs randomley.
 
second machine: asus P5AB, amd k6-2 400, 128ram, voodoo3 2000.
 
upon complete clean install, NO lockup.
 
at first i thought it had todo with the geforce and the athlon or mobo, but it seems that others with totally different setups are having the same trouble. Since someone mentioned windowblinds, i do have that installed, however, i installed it after the lockups occured, so it cant have to do with it.
 
other proggys:
 
iconpackager
winamp 2.6
network associates VS 4.5 RC1
diskeeper 5.3
napster
icq
aol aim
unreal tournament
quake3
 
i dont believe the software installed has anything to do with it, since i have the same setup on the other machine and it works flawlessly.
 
I still believe that win2k is the best OS MS has ever released, just please Microsoft, DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS ITS ANNOYING AS HELL TO SAY THE LEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
needless to say... win2k RC2 worked fine on the same machine with the same setup.
 
the onyl thing i did notice, is that i started having these troubles AFTER i upgraded my bios to 1008. though it might have nothing to do with it, as i didnt run win2k rc2 with that upgraded bios.
 
any clues, comments, suggestions are of course and alwaze will be appreciated.
 
thanks - Danny.

Hello I have W2K a Tyan Tiger 100 two PIII 600e's and have had no problems as of yet.

Same freezing 2K....
But I observed that it happens especially eith one of these 2 programs being opened: Outlook Express 2000 and Winamp (2.5-2.6). I don't know if this means something but, anyway, it's strange.
My System:
AMD Athlon 500
Asus K7M 1.04 (1,008 bios)
128 MB PC-100 generic ram
Sb Live
Matrox G400
...
dOOMY
 
[This message has been edited by dOOMY (edited 03 March 2000).]

me lord thinks mes found the problem...
 
seriously... i believe it has todo with the AGP bus on your mobo - on my sys, k7m, athlon 600, geforce ddr, when i select 1xagp the system works super stable, hitting it will all i can to lock it up, no can do. AS SOON AS I Select 2xagp however... within minutes the sys hangs - leads me to believe either a PS problem, or mobo bios problem or driver problem or a combination thereof...
 
i´d like to see some comments...thanx.

I have set my agp to 1x, we will see if the freezes go away. I will post again once it freezes. If it does not freeze in 48 hours i will know the problem is solved for me

I found another thing about this freeze is that it always occurs when i had winamp opened, downloaded winamp 2.61 to see it freeze still occurs.

I have had two freezes already since switching to 1x agp speed. That does not seem to be the fix for me. Outlook does seem to be involved though. But that does not seem to be true every time. Problem is just to random.