Re: games crash on P5P800



You could lower the quality of the graphics using the ATI utility for doing
this. I solved my crash problems by doing this when playing Halo (the demo),
which is the only directx game that I play on my computer.
My video card is a Radeon 9600 AGP.

"Will R" <Silkbowl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns97959ACE76ACBSilkbowlNetscapenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This might be a video card problem, but I'm posting here because my
computer didn't have problems on my previous motherboard (P4S533).

Current setup:
P5P800
Pentium 630
Transcend PC3200 1GB (x2)
ATI 9800 XT (msi)
PSU 500w Rosewill

In the first 30 seconds of playing Civ4 a small box -- about 1/2 inch --
appears on the upper left corner of the screen. The box is filled with
multicolered, horizontal lines that move when I move my mouse. (The mouse
cursor disapears too.) Then, about a second later, the screen goes either
black and hangs or is filled with vertical stripes and hangs. The
computer
does not turn off; it requires a hard reboot. This always happens.

Originally I thought it was a game problem because Civ4 is known for its
many bugs, but it played flawlessly with the same video card on my P4S533.
Also, i tried the F.E.A.R. demo and it too crashed -- the monitor filled
with vertical lines and hung.

So, no crahes on old motherboard; many crashes on P5P800. If it's not a
video card problem, perhaps it's a videocard-motherboard problem(?). I'm
thinking about buying a new card, but why throw it out if it has worked
for
so long?

Any help would be most welcomed.

-Will



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