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Alright...first off, here are the specs that are important:

Iwill KK266
1.2 T-bird
512 MB SDRAM
430W Antec True Power Supply
Win XP Home
Det 40.72 Drivers
Netgear FA311

Settings:
AGP Driving Strength - EB (Also tried it at EA....still a no go red leader)
AGP - Doesn't matter if it's 2x or 4x....does the same thing.
FWs are off
Someone suggested that I turn off sidebanding...don't know where that is...could someone please help me with that.

In Dxdiag:
DirectDraw Acceleration - Enabled
Direct3d Acceleration - Enabled
AGP Texture Acceleration - Enabled

Here are the symptoms:
Try to run 3dmark - crash to desktop or reboot
Try to America's Army - Reboot
Try to Run Duke Nukem: Mahatten Project - crash to desktop

I have tried all these many, MANY times...and it's the same all the time.

LMK if you need more info...I will gladly provide it.

TIA

Edit: Fresh install of XP

I believe you need a tweak program to turn off sidebanding... like powerstrip or rivatuner

What drivers are you using? Did you get all the remnants of your previous drivers before you installed what you have?

Some people have problems with the Detonator drivers - I did...

good luck

First off use the 30.82 dets NOT the 40's. Lots of people are having problems with the 40's. They are NOT official drivers. The 30.82 is the latest official.

Get it from NVidia's site (you never know what hacked crap you might be getting soemwhere else):
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=drivers

If you overclock you don't want sidebanding enabled. I'm pretty sure RivaTuner will disable sidebanding, but I use PowerStrip.

Some general suggestions:


- Remove any utilities for your old video card from the Add/Remove Programs wizard in control panel.

- If you're overclocking (either the vid card or the cpu), don't and see if that helps.

- In the motherboard's BIOS menu, make sure that "Assign IRQ to VGA" is enabled and that both "Video BIOS Caching" and "Video Ram Shadow" are disabled. Set "AGP Aperature" to 64.

- Go to the motherboard manufacturer's web site and see if there's an updated Flash BIOS for your mobo. It could be your AGP bus support isn't up to spec. NVidia cards are fussy about proper AGP support.

- You may not have the proper or the latest drivers for you motherboard's APG to PCI Bridge. There should be drivers that came with your motherboard on a CD, but you should download the latest version from the motherboard manufacurer's web site.

- It's possible that some other device is causing the problem. Best way to isolate it is to pull ALL your cards except the vid card (IMPORTANT: note what slot each card was installed in). Play the misbehaving game and see if it runs stable (yes, the game should run just fine without a sound card installed). If it behaves, install each card ONE BY ONE starting with the sound card until you isolate the bad boy. It's important to put the cards back in their original slots to avoid PCI IRQ Sharing problems (see next paragraph).

- You may have a card that has a PCI IRQ channel sharing problem (NOT the same as an IRQ conflict). The SBLive, NICs and SCSI controllers are very prone to this. Fix is essentially the same as mentioned in the previous paragraph except when you find the misbehaving card, you need to move it to another slot. More details on this problem here: http://soldcentralfl.com/quakecoop/glfaq5.htm#5_9

- You may have background app running causing problems. I like to run a very clean system when play - I want NOTHING running in the background. Don't run anything in the background: Virus Scanners, disk utils, reminder programs, taskbar shortcuts for Real Player, AOL Instant Messenger, etc). If you have Win98 run MSCONFIG.EXE click on the Startup tab. Uncheck anything you don't need running - Windows ONLY requires System Tray, Task Monitor and Power Profile to run properly (and you can lose Power Profile if your computer doesn't use sleep mode). Uncheck everything else unless it's required by something.

- You should also check out the Geforce FAQ at http://geforcefaq.com

Hope this helps...