awergh Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 I have an Acer V80M with a Pentium III 750Mhz Slot 1 CPU with 128MB of PC133 running at PC100 Speed with an AGP Video card and a 6gb ide hdd i installed nt4 on it and it runs fine however when i put a PCI network card in it. The computer will freeze once i use the network card like when i launch firefox once frozen the computer wont do any thing and ill have to turn it off. it froze when i put in a PCI video card as well ive changed ram ive changed hdd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Sounds like a faulty PCI slot maybe, or possibly your PSU is not able to cope with the extra load put on it by the PCI card. Do you have access to another computer that you can try the cards in just to rule them out as being the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Age Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 To what CaPMan said that is likely the problem. What's the max watts to your powersupply? Guessing 240, 300. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted February 15, 2007 Administrator Share Posted February 15, 2007 Are the drivers compatible with the OS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 You can try to put the network card in a different PCI slot, sometimes there are IRQ conflicts and DMA trouble, and master/slave-busses, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capman Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 You can try to put the network card in a different PCI slot........ I was going to suggest that, but hopefully awergh had already thought of and tried that. Just waiting for some feedback from awergh now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted February 16, 2007 Author Share Posted February 16, 2007 i have tried all 3 pci slots for the network card. ive tried a different PSU which was 450Watts the card had official drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted February 16, 2007 Administrator Share Posted February 16, 2007 What version are the drivers? If they are the latest, you may want to try using an older driver. If they are not the latest, try the latest drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Did it work before you put NT4 on it? You tried the network card in another computer? Maybe the network card is defect? NT4 is pretty **** old, maybe you should try a more modern operating system such as Linux, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 it had problems before nt4 ok ive dont some testing i took at any PCI cards and disabled most of the onboard devices win 2k the setup frooze at configuring com+ win xp pro sp2 froze when copying blurbs.chm winme /is froze at 10% of copying files win 95B /is /in froze at the start of setup win 95B /is /in /im /id /i? success s3trio64v2 pci video card froze at the bios screen before it even displayed the enter the bios key i restarted and it booted 95 had no driver but the computer hasnt frozen. tungsten labs pci video card booted 95, 95 had no driver, didnt freeze shall try 98se, nt4, 3.1 and linux later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted February 17, 2007 Administrator Share Posted February 17, 2007 You may wish to try reinstalling Windows 2000 based on your system specs. You'll get a lot of the needed security and stability. If it freezes after Windows has installed and booting into Windows, yet is configuring; simply reboot and see if it keeps happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 You really considering trying 3.1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 maybe, if it works and it is the only option but i may not use it for very long on the plus side it will boot fast EDIT: am editing to say that im browsing with firefox 0.91 on 95b and it hasnt frozen yet whereas before on nt4 it froze imediatly after lanching firefox 1.03 however i do wonder is there something different about the way 95 handles pci or is it to do with disabling stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 0.91, pretty **** old, must be some security vulnerabilities in that one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Age Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 I would consider buying a new one :happybday: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 well i thought firefox 1+ had a version checker and i didnt want to have to worry about it so i just grabbed 0.91 however firefox 1.5.0.8 is meant to work on 95 firefox 2 crashes i am thinking about changing boards but not till i try some more tests Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Maybe try DeLi Linux, Puppy Linux, **** Small Linux or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 98se works as well with lots of switches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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