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Gryph
04-22-2005, 04:56 PM
Recently whenever I try to play a game it crashes to the desktop in a few minutes. The first time this happened was a week ago but I was too busy to bother with it. I had some free time today to play games so I tried to play Doom III, Call of Duty, HL2, and CS:S but they after a little bit of gameplay the crashed to the desktop. No error messages, no nothing. The only side effect was that the brightness on the desktop was higher everytime it crashed.

System specs:
Athlon XP 3200+
Shuttle AN35 Ultra (latest Nforce drivers)
1 GB Mushkin PC 3200 RAM
Radeon 9700 Pro (Catalyst 5.4. I even downgraded to Omega 5.2 and still messed up)

It doesn't freeze or do anything weird in the desktop. I'm going to play some Civilization III right now and see if it crashes during that. I have a hunch that it's either some RAM on my video card got screwed or the video card is overheating. I wish I had money to upgrade... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Thanks in advance

NutWrench
04-22-2005, 05:03 PM
What does the Event Viewer say?

Gryph
04-22-2005, 06:30 PM
There are no errors in the Event Viewer. Just Information.

But I just opened my case, cleaned the heatsinks, the fans, and moved some cables around to help airflow. After that I played Doom III and it didn't crash. I played for a good 10 minutes and usually it crashed in the first minute. However, my PC was off for a while so everything is still relatively cool.