Specifications

overclocking.
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If you have an option in your BIOS called 'Fast CPU Command Decode', try setting it to Normal
instead of Fast.
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If you are playing with a Quake engine based game, try the console command:
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/gl_keeptjunctions "1"
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Reset all of the options in the NVIDIA control panel to default.
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Try underclocking your card.
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Try going into 32 bit colour mode instead of 16 bit.
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Replace your card if you can. It is most likely that it is defective.
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Q. My sound card crackles or stutters with the GeForce. How can I fix it?
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Make sure you have muted all unused sound inputs in the Windows Volume Control application, to make
sure that you are not just picking up noise from inside your system.
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Try installing the latest drivers for your sound card.
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Try installing the latest drivers for your motherboard.
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Try installing the latest BIOS update for your motherboard. You can get help with finding out what BIOS
you need and instructions as to how to flash it at Wim's BIOS page.
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Make sure that your sound card is not sharing an IRQ with another card. If it is, try moving your sound
card to another PCI slot. You may also have to read the 'I have Windows 2000 and all of my devices
share the same IRQ, causing problems with my GeForce. How can I fix it?' question.
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If you are using a SoundBlaster Live! soundcard, make sure that you have reserved IRQ 5 for the
SoundBlaster 16 emulation in your system's BIOS - set IRQ 5 to 'Reserved for Legacy (or ISA) Device'
in the 'PCI/PNP IRQ Resource Exclusion' section - your BIOS may use different wosding.
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If you have a Super Socket 7 motherboard, the registry fix in the 'I have problems with my Super Socket
7 motherboard. How can I fix them?' question may help.
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Try disabling the 'Delayed Transaction' option in your BIOS.
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Try enabling the 1MB memory hole between 15-16MB option in your BIOS.
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If you have a 'PCI Latency Timing', 'CPU-to-PCI Bridge latency' or similar setting in your BIOS, try
setting it to 0, or raising it to 64 (the usual setting is 32). This may help in particular on VIA KX133
based motherboards.
If you do not have this option in your BIOS, and you have a VIA MVP3 chipset based motherboard, try
putting the following program in your startup folder. It sets the CPU-to-PCI Bridge latency timer to 0.
You can download the Windows 9x/ME version of this program here:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/parru/CPU-to-PCIBridgeLatencyTimerTo0clks.zip
and the Windows 2000 English version here:
http://www.deinmeister.de/mvp3_zlt_e.htm
and the Windows 2000 German version here:
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