Voodoo 12meg lockups in GPL

A friend of mine keeps getting lockups with his 12 Diamond Monster. With an 8meg card there is no problem. The screen stops updating but you still get sound. We have tried just about every driver and patch. Can you limit the memory to 8meg? Selecting it in the control panel does not help. Thanks, Scott

12 meg in V2 is definitely not the problem. Earlier there was some textureproblems on creatives 12 meg but not anymore. Suggest you try solving this problem from diff aspect. Reducing the memory to 8 doesnt get your friend anywhere. LM

Hi! The problem is not the memory, it's the heat. Go and get some extra cooling for the Voodoo and the lockups will be history. Or underclock the card to 80 MHz, this won't do a too big performance hit but prevent the card from overheating & locking up. Bye! Crash Scott Rixon schrieb:

Scott, I totally agree with Joachim. I too have a Diamond V2-12MB which showed the same problem. overheating is definitely the problem!! I bought a cheap case-fan (app. US$5,=) and took care that the diamond card was next to an empty slot (of which I removed the case-lid (don't know if that's the correct name though) to get an good air-flow alongside the card) which solved the freezing problem. Please try it, it definitely works! Jan.

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> Hi! > The problem is not the memory, it's the heat. Go and get some extra > cooling for the Voodoo and the lockups will be history. Or underclock > the card to 80 MHz, this won't do a too big performance hit but prevent > the card from overheating & locking up. > Bye! > Crash > Scott Rixon schrieb: > > A friend of mine keeps getting lockups with his 12 Diamond Monster. With an > > 8meg card there is no problem. > > The screen stops updating but you still get sound. We have tried just about > > every driver and patch. > > Can you limit the memory to 8meg? Selecting it in the control panel does not > > help. > > Thanks, > > Scott

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>Funny that heat causes freezing! Its a chemistry thing, and also a woman thing... You're hot, they're cold... They're hot, you're racing. :)

ROTFLMAO!!! I'm having that printed on a t-shirt! don [|]-(_)-[|]

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>>Funny that heat causes freezing! >Its a chemistry thing, and also a woman thing... >You're hot, they're cold... >They're hot, you're racing. :)

Funny that heat causes freezing!

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> Scott, > I totally agree with Joachim. I too have a Diamond V2-12MB which showed the same > problem. overheating is definitely the problem!! I bought a cheap case-fan (app. > US$5,=) and took care that the diamond card was next to an empty slot (of which I > removed the case-lid (don't know if that's the correct name though) to get an > good air-flow alongside the card) which solved the freezing problem. Please try > it, it definitely works!