Specifications

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If you have Super Socket 7 based motherboard, read the 'I have problems with my Super Socket 7
motherboard. How can I fix them?' question in this FAQ.
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Make sure that there is adequate cooling for your GeForce, your AGP chipset and your processor. You
can see if overheating is the problem by leaving your case lid off and using a desk fan to blow inside the
case. If this helps, you may need to buy a better fan for the GeForce (see the 'What is a good replacement
fan for a GeForce?' question), underclock the GeForce, or get bettes case / CPU cooling.
This is a
particular problem with AMD chips - they generate much more heat than Intel chips.
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If you have an Athlon motherboard, try disabling Super Bypass in your BIOS setup or using the Chipid
program available here:
http://www.slota.com/files/chipid.zip
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If you have an ASUS card and are running the SmartDoctor utility, try disabling it. In addition, if you
have an ASUS card and a VIA chipset motherboard, try getting another make of GeForce, such as a
Leadtek.
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If your network card has a boot BIOS and the ability to disable it, try disabling it.
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Try removing other PCI cards and seeing if that fixes the problem. In particular, Diamond Monster
soundcards may cause instability problems when combined with a GeForce card. If removing one
particular card helps, try updating the drivers for that card. If that doesn't help, get a different card of a
different make and model.
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Try disabling Advanced Power Management in the System Control Panel.
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Try connecting your CPU fan to another socket on the motherboard.
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Try reseating all of the components on your motherboard (including power leads and the GeForce).
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Try turning up the I/O voltage of the motherboard in the BIOS by a small amount if your BIOS supports
it.
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Try switching on AGP Turbo in your BIOS, turning up the Front Side Bus speed slightly, or setting your
AGP ratio to 1:1 (in that order) - this will put extra strain on the card, but it seems to fix the problem for
some people.
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If your CPU currently runs at a 100Mhz FSB, try setting the FSB to 133Mhz if the processor can handle
it (you will be overclocking it). If you have an ASUS P3C-2000 motherboard and this fixes the problem
you should read the 'I have an ASUS P3C-2000 motherboard, and I experience problems in 3D
applications when the system is heavily loaded. How can I fix it?' question.
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If you have memory that isn't rated for the Front Side Bus speed that you are running at, or if you have
unbranded (low quality) memory, you might want to try replacing or taking out the slower / unbranded
memory and see if it fixes your problem. If you only have unbranded memory, then try running it at a
lower speed (e.g. 100 instead of 133).
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Make sure that you are using a powerful enough power supply. See the 'How powerful should my power
supply be in order to use the GeForce?' question for more information.
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If you are using more than one stick of memory, try taking out all but one of the memory sticks and see if
that helps. If it does, you need a more powerful power supply: see the 'How powerful should my power
supply be in order to use the GeForce?' question for more information.
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Try going into the System Control Panel, Device Manager, System Devices, Direct Memory Access
Controller, and changing the Access Restrictions (on the Settings Tab) to restrict DMA transfers to
memory below 16MB.
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