On Sat, 2 Jul 2005 23:47:01 -0400, "Tom" <> wrote:
>Hi. I have an an35n-ultra that is rebooting. I am playing a game and the
>screen freezes and the computer reboots. Any one have any ideas? Power
>supply ? Video card ? Motherboard ? Any suggestions would be greatly
>appreciated. Thanks.
>
It would also help if you listed the game you are having problems with
like does the game have any video cutscenes
I have found that the "AN35/N ultra" isn't a very game friendly board
I tried everything I could to get "Mech Commander 2" to run on it
updated the video, sound drivers, and direct X
downgraded drivers and direct X
Lowered FSB to 100mhz
change AGP aperture
enable/disable=> AGP 8X support, fast write capability, Video RAM cacheable.
Flashed Bios
Ran Sisoft Sandra test and some memory test everything checks out
"Mech Commander 2" installs fine and the menu shows and you can adjust
settings, but as soon as I load the first mission it freezes at a news video cutscene.
I tried reducing the video resolution and detail settings still no go.
My nephew got "Lego Star Wars" for his birthday and was totally bummed
that it would not play on their computer, so he brought it to my place to see if
one of my computers would work. I read the requirements on the box they were
pretty steep here's what the readme file says:
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you must have a video card that supports Pixel Shader 1.1 for LEGO: Star Wars to run. Unless you
are running an Nvidia GeForce 3 ti, 4 ti, or FX, 6000 or an ATI Radeon 8500, or Radeon 9000 series,
or X series card, this game will not run. None of the Nvidia GeForce MX, or GeForce 2/GTS/GO video
cards are supported, as they lack the Pixel Shader chip on the card itself. Any ATI Radeon card
model 9000 or higher should run LEGO: Star Wars. On-board Intel (82810, 82845, 82845G, 82865G) video
chips are not supported, as they lack nearly all the required hardware needed to run LEGO: Star
Wars.***Please note Nvidia TNT cards and ATI Rage cards are also NOT supported***
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Only the AN35 had a graphics card that could handle it a "RADEON 9000 64M" the game loads fine
in WIN 2K and it also loads "Direct X 9c" . We got to "Dexter's resturant" which is kind of a hub
for all the missions, and played around with the characters for a while but when the characters
go through the door to play the first mission the screen would freeze on the cutscene, no error
messages or anything. just some red thing on the screen against a space background.
I reloaded it and it still would freeze at the same cutscene. I didn't want to let him
down, and the game graphics looked so great, for a kids game that, I wanted to play it too.
So I decided to try my "Soyo K7VTA PRO, Athlon 1000" as that computer has run anything
I have thrown at it, I even nicknamed it the TANK. Unfortunately it had a "ATI RAGE 32M"
so I swapped video cards and loaded the ATI RADEON drivers. Loaded the game up on it in win 2K.
The game really came alive on the SOYO now we had music and more background sounds.
Now when we go into the first mission the cutscene played with no problems, it ends up
the red thing on the screen is a lego space ship that flys by and lands on a federation ship.
I was kind of annoyed at this games high hardware requirements, but it's worth it
the graphics are really great, a nice simple control interface, along with cool levels to play.
2 people can play at once, and you can change characters while playing
I could drop out and let the computer play my character, while my nephew
played alone, and then I could pop back in again. You can even kill "Jar Jar Binks"
when you do he just turns into a pile of Lego's. I had expected that there would be
some kind of dialogue, but there isn't it's all just a few subtitles, actually I think the
Prequel movies would have been better without dialogue too.
Unfortunately my "ATI RAGE 32M" won't go in the Shuttle board as it is AGP1 and the
board is AGP 8X so the video card has a notch in the wrong place. I had to swap the cards
back, so I could use the shuttle again. I will probably get the cheapest video card I can find
to stick in the shuttle and put the ATI RADEON 9000 back in the SOYO.
At least I know now that it's not the video card thats causing the problem, but
something about the "AN35/N ultra" thats causing games to freeze and lock up.
I loaned it to a friend to play with and he couldn't get
"Mech Commander 2" to run on it. We think it might be the ATI video card
clashing with the Nvidia based board. where as my SOYO is a VIA based board.
I have friends with AMD driven , ASUS and Abit boards, and the Shuttle seems to be the
only AMD Board with problems. So it also might be that the Shuttle just isn't
a very good board. The Soyo K7VTA PRO has never refused to run anything,
the only adjustment I had to make was disable Hardware acceleration so I
could zoom in and out in Pro Engineer.
If anyone has been able to get "Mech Commander 2" or "Lego Star Wars"
to run on a "Shuttle AN35/N ultra" let me know what setup and video card
you are using. here is my set up.
Shuttle AN35/N ultra
AMD XP 2600 (333Mhz)
Kingston DDR 400 512mb
RADEON 9000 64M
WD 80gig IDE
Antec 350 PWS
LITEON CDRW
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