Hello,
I am hoping someone could give me some help with this unusual problem. I have a Dell Optiplex Gxi 200MHZ 32MB RAM PC. I have received my Geforce2 64MB in the mail today. Here are my weird problems.

1. First, there is no sound at all coming from games, but I can still hear chimes and music from the internet or windows programs. Only the games won't play any sounds.

2. This is the weird one. After about 20 minutes of browsing the net, I then get a message "webpage is unavailable" I then notice that every page, and my internet is unavailable. I spoke to 3 techs at my internet service, and noone of them could help me.

They say they are pinging me, and the signal is excellent. My PC is showing my IP address, and my dns numbers. Everything looks fine, but for some reason I cannot get online, and this happens when I am using the Geforce card. I then wait a while, then the internet magically appears later on. What on earth would cause a video card to disconnect me from the internet? I know it's the card because I took it out 3 times and I never have any problems when the Geforce card is not in. Does anyone know the answer to this problem?

A conflict between different hardware devices drivers could do this. There may be an obvious conflict in “Device Manager”, or, there may be hidden conflicts due to PCI IRQ Steering.

Look for the obvious conflicts first. If none are seen, try deleting your modem (nic?) card and sound card and installing them at different PCI slots farther away from your AGP (assumption) slot.

I'll reply to your first problem. Your sound wire must be connected to the master CD-Rom and the games must be played from the master CD-Rom. Make sure the "CD Balance" volume is up too.

Quote: Your sound wire must be connected to the master CD-Rom and the games must be played from the master CD-Rom. Make sure the "CD Balance" volume is up too.

This is assuming that you are talking about soundtracks not working that are often stored in CD Audio format on the game CD. If you are talkinga bout noises in the game that denote some sort of action then the problem may lie somewhere else.

Oh sorry for nto mentioning that, the games that I am not getting any sound from are downloaded off the internet. I am not using the CD-ROM drive. Everything is working perfect, except for game sound efftecs. Does anyoen know why my new card is disabling my internet connection? Thank you.

A conflict between different hardware devices drivers could do this.

lol :-)

maybe you have winsock problems. try typing in SFC in the run menu (system file checker) and see if it can scan all your system files.

in win98 that will work. in win xp (and possibly 2000) you have to type in command first and then run sfc with some command line options (I think).