Ben,
> I had a look at Abit's website and your BE6-II is a BX chipset
> motherboard (e.g. running at 100mHz FSB). The latest bios listed on
> their site for BE6-II version 2.0 is 72 (perhaps 7.2?).
> http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/download_content.jsp?pTITLE=BE6-II+V2.0&#
>
> Based on what I'm reading here, version 6 (their numbering "VI") of
> their bios only supported CPU's up to 633.Thanks, I hadn't considered that aspect. There's some confusion on the Abit site, with a BE6 II, a BE6 II v 1.2 and that BE6 II v2. My manual and the board itself definitely ref simply BE6 II, but I dl'd that flash and got an error message ('flash not compatible w/ your system' or something similar. So I've pulled the one you pointed out and will try that as well, but in this heat wave we're having in the Northeast US and the AC cycling on and off, I'm reluctant to try flashing again just now.
My current BIOS is listed as supporting up to P3 800's (which struck me as odd at the time but was the latest then available).
For the record, I tried Al Wheeler's suggestion of changing the AGP port setting, well, sort of <g>. Mine too was at the default of 64M, so I thought I'd see if setting it to 128M made things worse .... in fact it seemed to HELP!
The PNY GEF3 Ti200 arrived yesterday, so installed it last evening and pulled the GEF4. Frame rates aren't *quite* as good w/ the sliders maxed out, but tweaking them just a bit seems to be enough. Flight is fluid and the display effects are better (sun reflection on the water was gone w/ the GEF4, but back in the GEF3. Clouds seem better.) It doesn't fight w/ my monitor as the GEF4 did (a flickering on boot where the monitor tried to reset itself 2 or 3 times).
Most importantly I've experienced only one lockup after nearly a dozen flights in FS and several missions in CFS2. In that instance I probably threw too much at the card, trying to touch down in a bad crosswind, the plane pitched at a severe angle just before touchdown and I tried a last minute correction. The FAA may want to talk to me <g>.
So my personal problems may be solved and I may now know enough to get my friend up and running when he loads FS. Of course it may've been symptomatic of the Siluro brand and he may have no probs at all.
Many thanks for your help. This OLR isn't OzWin but the level of intelligent conversation and help (not to mention all the familiar faces) sure are reminiscent of the old FSForum on CIS.
Mark
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