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Re: Any ideas?

Jul 29, 2005, 16:41

Enahs

Interestingly enough, it is now my birthday.

Happy birthday man!

Is it possible that the power for my apartment is really "dirty" and is causing problems?

No.

You have installed the latest motherboard chipset/agp drivers correct?
( http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_5.10 )

I find it odd that it would do it with different video cards, different games, and the CPU is not over heating.

You might want to let memtest run over night or at least a few hours.

If you can not make the CPU over heat or have any problems with heavy load, and the memory is fine…it only leaves the video card or the mother board. With it doing the same thing in many different games with two different video cards I would tend to lean towards the motherboard.

If you have not updated the motherboard drivers as I linked to earlier, and that does not fix it. I would then go into your BIOS, lower the AGP setting to 4X or 2X, turn off fast writes, ect. Anything that has to do with the AGP port turn it down. Then see where you get.

Note: I do believe the x800’s require more power then the AGP port can deliver. You do have the external molex power connector plugged up, correct? If not, plug it up! If you do, try and make sure it is not splitting off the same rail as something with too much other stuff.

Second note, I just though of something right before hitting post:
It could only be crashing in games due to sound, if what above I said does not work…try taking out your sound card and see if it still crashes.

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