Ever Had This Happen?

I have that happen virtually every time I play UT.

I've heard from people who have the same problem that it was due to installing the latest nvidia reference drivers.

Since your using Voodoo3 - obviously not.

Others have said it could be due to the 428 drivers.

If you aren't using them then I'm all outa ideas.

Anyway my solution. Switch off manually when it freezes. Hit Enter once when restarts to skip auto scandisk. Not that time cosuming.

That's probably your video card not relinquishing it's control of it's IRQ. You are probably sharing it with another device. The PCI specification allows for IRQ sharing between other cards that use the PCIset. Don't worry about what I'm saying here.

See if you can reinstall the video card drivers, or the drivers to the otehr card you are using.

Go into your BIOS and allow PnP to be controlled by Windows. If it already is, and you have problems, then disable that, and have your motherboard choose for you.

If you need any other advice let me know.

One more thing. Take a look at your other card which is sharing the same IRQ a sthe video card, and move THAT to a different slot on the motherboard. Do that firstm before any driver installs.

Do you have a network card installed? Sometimes they need to be higher up on the motherboard, towards Slot 1, which is just below the AGP slot.

You should already have the latest drivers from 3ddx, too.

I have an Asus 7700 in an AGP slot yet get the same issue. So moving PCI cards may not be the answer.


Its a UT engine thing - possibly to do with the latest patch, or just the engine itself.

Are you also running off a via chipset board like the Asus A7V?

Windows freezes on the shutdown screen for me too. I don't know if there is a correlation between UT and this problem, because I got UT when I purchased the computer a few months ago. It is annoying and I usually have to hold the power button in until it shuts off, because Cont., Alt., Del. doesn't work.

There are many people who have this problem. Me too.
It seems to be Nvidias ref. driver which causes this problem.
You can read more about it in the newsgroup:
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia

You say your running Windows 98. It won't be Windows 98SE?

I have several PCs here at the office that have the same intermitent shutdown problem. Its a Windows 98SE bug and M$ has a specific patch for it.

Another thing to try is to run MSCONFIG from Start\Run, click on the Advanced button and put a check mark in the box before "Disable Fast Shutdown." If there's already check mark there, remove the check mark. Sounds wierd I know but it works

The patch from M$ or using MSCONFIG has worked for me.

Yep. That problem's just popped up on me too. I just un-checked the fast shut down box. Hope it works.

I never really made the connection with the new nvidia drivers or the new 428 patch, but I did them both about the same time, and that's about when it started.

I was just going to defrag, and if that didn't work, re-install W98SE.

Cool thread. I'm glad you started it.