Artsemis

Computer used to contain the exact same setup as now except it had an older (Voodoo) video card in it. I replaced the Voodoo with a GeForce3 Ti500, reformatted, and loaded WinXP. The first thing I did was run windows update and installed all the updates on there, including DX9.

All this went great and took probably about 2-3 hours; and as soon as all the updates were done, I installed my video card drivers (newest from nVidia) which have DX9 support. Ever since then the computer seems to freeze up within about 15 - 30 mins of being on.

At first I thought it was heat or power supply. PS is a 300W power supply and I do have neons lights in the system so I first unplugged all of them and still had the problem. Next, I left the computer in BIOS for about 4 hours - no problems there, never locked up. I also ran memtest86 for about 4 hours with no problems.

So, narrowed down to DX and Video Card drivers it seems...

I uninstalled the Video card drivers, and just let windows set there with no video card driver installed...

Locked up.

Is there any known issues here or am I going to have to format again and find a game that came with DX8? (MS wont let you install DX8 on XP anymore, only 95). The problem with going back to DX8 is that a game I play is about to start requiring DX9 in the next 2 weeks.


System Specs:

AMD Thunderbird 950 (Not overclocked)
Chaintek Mobo
256 Meg pc-100 RAM
10 gig HD
Memorex CD-RW
Floppy, Network Card, Modem, yada yada ya...


ps. before you make fun of the system, its not my "main"

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