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Scott D. Orr
Hi there,
I have a problem and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for
fixing it. I recently rebuilt my tower computer system, with an MSI
6167 mainboard and an Athlon Thunderbird 700 Slot A CPU (with 128MB of
RAM--and I'm absolutely sure there are no RAM problems). The video
card I had been using, with no problems at all, was a 16MB 3dfx
Voodoo3 3000. However, my father gave me the remains of a Dell system
that had been struck by lightning, including a Dell proprietary 32MB
ATI Rage 128 video card. I sold most of the parts of the system, but
the video card was marginally faster than the Voodoo3, with real
32-bit color capability, and I figured I could get more for the
Voodoo3 on eBay, especially since I sitll had the retail box for it,
so I kept the ATI card.
For the most part, it works just fine, but I've discovered that when
I'm playing Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord (the only full-screen
game I ever play), if I switch out of the game window, or get switched
out by a popup dialog box, and then switch back in, the game sounds
starts back up again, but then the game freezes before I get any
display other than a blank black screen (actually the whole computer
locks up until I close the game using CTRL-ALT-DEL).
I'm assuming this is a video driver problem of some sort, but Dell has
released only one driver for this card, and the regular ATI Rage
drivers won't install on it. Does anyone have any suggestions for
fixing it?
Thanks,
Scott Orr
I have a problem and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for
fixing it. I recently rebuilt my tower computer system, with an MSI
6167 mainboard and an Athlon Thunderbird 700 Slot A CPU (with 128MB of
RAM--and I'm absolutely sure there are no RAM problems). The video
card I had been using, with no problems at all, was a 16MB 3dfx
Voodoo3 3000. However, my father gave me the remains of a Dell system
that had been struck by lightning, including a Dell proprietary 32MB
ATI Rage 128 video card. I sold most of the parts of the system, but
the video card was marginally faster than the Voodoo3, with real
32-bit color capability, and I figured I could get more for the
Voodoo3 on eBay, especially since I sitll had the retail box for it,
so I kept the ATI card.
For the most part, it works just fine, but I've discovered that when
I'm playing Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord (the only full-screen
game I ever play), if I switch out of the game window, or get switched
out by a popup dialog box, and then switch back in, the game sounds
starts back up again, but then the game freezes before I get any
display other than a blank black screen (actually the whole computer
locks up until I close the game using CTRL-ALT-DEL).
I'm assuming this is a video driver problem of some sort, but Dell has
released only one driver for this card, and the regular ATI Rage
drivers won't install on it. Does anyone have any suggestions for
fixing it?
Thanks,
Scott Orr