Attention: Athlon/Win2k users

[Ralph D]

Hi,

Well well, MS 'fesses up! Just heard about this on the grapevine today. Here's a possible solution to something that's plagued me ever since the gold demo. I get the occasional freezup (about 1x a week now)with CM, even when I put my K7550@700 back to 550. I put the fix in and so far - so good.

Here's the link: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q270/7/15.ASP

Here's some info from the article, but it requires a regedit, which I won't post here 'cos I'd rather remain blameless:

AGP Program May Hang When Using Page Size Extension on Athlon Processor

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

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IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry.

Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if

a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring

the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key"

Help topic in Regedt32.exe.

SYMPTOMS

A Windows 2000-based computer may stop responding (hang) when you use an

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) program such as Ziff Davis 3D WinBench 2000.

This behavior may occur more frequently depending on the computer's

processor, memory, and graphics configuration. This problem is known to

occur with Nvidia GeForce 256 and Matrox G400 video adapters on computers

with AMD Athlon processors. This issue is not specific to any specific video

adapter type.

CAUSE

Memory that is allocated by the video driver is being corrupted.

[andym]

Man, I've been wondering what was up! I'll let you know if this solves my problems too (Athlon 950/Win2K/GeForce 256).

-Andy