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Old February 4, 2008, 05:37 PM
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Hi all, I've been lurking this forum for quite some time, and I finally have a reason to post:
I just purchased an opty 185, slapped it in my DFI NF4 UT lanparty Expert (long-ass name if you ask me...) and fired it up on a fresh XP install (XP was installed using my old FX-53 CPU, did not format again after CPU swap). I am experiencing something very odd, and was wondering if you guys have an opinion on what it might be: when I run any 3D app (tried it on 3 games so far: Crysis, Witcher and Far Cry) I experience the same problem: the game momentarily lock up for a few seconds every minute or so. I have an EVGA 7800 gtx ko, which runs these games on med-high (except for crysis that is :P)... never had this issue with my FX-53...
Was wondering if it might have to do with the fact that I didn't format XP after having swapped the CPU... i really don't feel like formatting again, hope to find the solution to this annoying problem.
Opty running at stock for now.
Help me please!

My rig:
AMD Opteron 185
DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert
OCZ GameXstream 600W
eGeforce 7800 GTX 256mb PCI- E
OCZ Gold GX XTC 2GB (2x1GB) PC4000 DDR
ThermalTake VB1000BWS Soprano mid-tower ATX Black
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Old February 4, 2008, 05:42 PM
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Have you installed the dualcore hotfix from AMD since you updated the CPU?
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yes, I have installed both the driver and the hotfix...
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Old February 5, 2008, 07:24 AM
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I tried a windows repair installation and it worked! YAY!
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Old February 5, 2008, 12:59 PM
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I wish you luck. It is unbelievable, tough, that the XP need repair after CPU swap... just... I lost my words.


Supergrover - are there a AMD hotfix for Win2k? :) I still having a single core, so I better ask beforehand... :)
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