Well I was positive that the onboard Lan and Sound were disabled through the BIOS.
I also checked that they were not in the "Device Manager" and they weren't.
What is frustrating me most is that the previous card I had the FX5800 Ultra was working on my old motherboard (Asus A7V266), and the current games I play looked great, but there was a bottleneck in the system due to the motherboard and only having a XP1700+ processor. When the FX5900 Ultra arrived I had some problems installing and Windows98SE didnt like the card and/or drivers (44.03) that were supplied by e-VGA, but that was the same version number that I was using for the FX5800 Ultra.
My Windows all of a sudden was having errors and BSOD's.
I completely removed all nVidia Drivers and even used "Detonator Destroyer" to remove completely, and completely removed the video card from "device manager".
All reloaded ok, and then I proceeded to try the "Dawn" demo from nVidia, since the FX5800 would never run it, and I expected the FX5900 to do it no problem. Thats when the "screen freezing" started, but it did it even before the demo loaded, and then re-starting, scandisk, display settings were messed up, everything was reset, and then BSOD's started again just from closing the "display setting" window.
I had enough and decided that I should no loner delay upgrading the system and make the plunge into WindowsXP also.
So I get the mobo, memory and processor. Everything gets removed and then assembled. I then had problems configuring networking with XP due to me not knowing squat about it, but after a few hours of searching and reading and uninstalling drivers and re-installing drivers, I added my old NIC, and eventually got it connected........woohooo.....now all the Windows Update downloads...plus all other downloads to get the system up to my workable level, then- lets try the "Dawn Demo"...system freeze again, but it loaded this time and played for about 30 secs before freezing and sound still playing in the background.
Checked the drivers and all was ok.
Tried again...and same problem.
Re-installed drivers and this time tried C&C Generals, and you guessed it, freeze after a little over 30secs.
After restart (powerbutton was only choice) I tried another game, Delta Force BlackHawk Down, and freeze in the menu section.
Was time to call it a night and try again next day.
NO LUCK.
Even tried putting the FX5800 Ultra back in and same problem but with the "leaf-blower" noise.
Messed with drivers, Bios, settings, this and that, still no go.
I even tried a different FX5900 Ultra to see if it was the card itself that had the problem, but no, the 2nd one had the same results.
Then it brings me to this Forum.
After your last reply, I thought it worth a try taking out sound card and NIC. Had to add another item that came with mobo for rear speaker connection and SPIDF (not used). Then I lose 2 friggin' hours waiting to speak to someone at Microsoft to get XP activated again because of the hardware changes.
After getting the onboard LAN working and onboard sound was working fine, time to try "Generals" game................
NO LUCK........freeze again, but I didnt even get as far as previously.
So I am at a total loss now.
Everything works fine and fast, except I freeze when trying anything 3D and have to "power button" to close.
Guess I will be writing/calling tech support Monday.
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