Comp has been pre meltdown...till tonight.

[Novall]

I thought I had things stabilized but it look like not. Damn thing just kept freezing for no reason. Did a mem test using Knoppix...but the ram is fine. Comp worked good for a couple days after that. Now the vid card is acting screwy...and its a brand new 5700 LE thats just now 2 months old. When comp doesnt freeze at startup, vid properties are set to 4 colors. I really hope its just the vid card if it is screwed. Gonna do a total rienstall of xp here in a couple mins and reinstall all the drivers to see if that fixes it.

Wish me luck

[Keer]

Novall, the week that my machine was out of it, I just lowered my ingame graphics and terrain options (CTRL+O). That fixed the freeze/crash to desktop problems I had.

The crash to reboot problem was because of an old fan not keeping the chip cool enough. Don't know if you're having that problem but that's what I did.

Good luck, Novall. A death mark on your machine isn't an easy thing to live with.

[Novall]

Novall, the week that my machine was out of it, I just lowered my ingame graphics and terrain options (CTRL+O). That fixed the freeze/crash to desktop problems I had.

The crash to reboot problem was because of an old fan not keeping the chip cool enough. Don't know if you're having that problem but that's what I did.

Good luck, Novall. A death mark on your machine isn't an easy thing to live with.

Yeah, I think I un-deathed it by rolling back the nvidia driver to an april version. Dasumi was having this problem with her computer also...but she's using an ATI card.

I pulled all the guts out, changed out two of the RAM sticks (Yes I do keep an extra $500 set of 1 Gig RAMBUS for moments like this) pulled the card and reinserted it and also vaccumed the hell out of the system. Alot of dust on the chip heatsink so that may have been causing the crash to reboot, also the heatsink over the MOBO cache was lose...dont know why. I change my case fans out every 6 months, and I have 5 on this case...so i really keep up with the airflow. Anyhow, did some tests after the driver rollback and everything seems fine. I'm gonna pop ingame and see now things look.