If youve got a spare PCI slot under your card you could always get an aftermarket GPU cooler for your card like a Zalman VF-700Cu. I was having issues with heat with my X850, it wasnt crashing but was downclocking my card when it got to hot. I bought one of the Zalmans and it brought the load temp down by a hefty amount. I'd certainly recommend one for the price theyre at... I REGISTERED WITH COMPUTING.NET AN ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOWSY SIGNATURE!! P4 3.6 Prescott ASUS PTGD1 Mobo 2x160GB Samsung SATA 1GB PC3200 DDR400 Tagan 420W PSU X850XT PE

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It sounds like a driver problem not all drivers are updated in windows update and some times the updates make the problems as they are a gernic version of the driver and might not work 100% for that peace of hardware. 1 program that saves me much head ack and i have tryed 1000's of programs but find this one workes the best http://www.tune-up.com/products/tuneup-utilities/ it rules... another program you might want is http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=30 this has alot of drivers for xp built into it so you do not have to look for them. The reason i say it is your drivers is because i have played with many different computers and have had this problem on a reinstall many times plus... if it worked before it should work again once its configered right. Also I have found with my X800 xt pro ati agp graphics card it dose not like the driver catalist that comes from ati's site no mater what version i get off it and i get best proformance out of the one that come with the card when i brought it. Bit about me and my computers as well since you all put your specs down i will too because i just love computers and i do not do this for a job and no one has ever trained me but i have been playing with computers since the old MS DOS 4 color screen 5/half inch floppy lol 3.5 were not even out then, (i was 8 or 9 years old to then) never got full on into computers till the P1 166 come out, any way hope them programs help your problem. Pc spec's________________________________ Home gigabyte network 5 routors 2 software 3 hardware and 3 x 1 gigabyte 8 port switchers 3 x 10/100 8 port switchers *Computer (1) P4 3.2 HT / laptop 128Mhz ati radeon 9600/9700 64mb built in gpu ram (not shared) 512 ddr ram 17inch wide screen Toshiba 40 gig HDD (plays all latest games sweet) *computer (2) P4 3.2 HT / laptop 128Mhz ati radeon 9600/9700 bios asinged 64mb gpu ram (shared)of 256 ddr ram 15inch wide screen Toshiba 40 gig HDD *PC (3) DFI Lanparty AMD xp2800 333 fsb 2 x 512 400 DDR (1 gig dual channel) radeon X800 XT Pro 256 mhz Sata 4 x 200 gig and 1 x 200 IDE= 1 terabyte all up 1 x built in 1 gigabyte network jack Thermaltake Xaser 3 server tower ( silver ) *PC (4) DFI Lanparty infinity AMD xp2600 333 fsb 2 x 512 400 DDR (1 gig dual channel) radeon 9550 256 (4 x pipe) 1 x 80 sata 1 x 120 sata (2 x sata empty) netgear 1 gigabyte PCI card Thermaltake Xaser 3 server tower ( Blue ) *PC (5) AMD xp 2500 333fsb 2 x 256 ddr ram = 512 Nvidia (8x) 128 mhz 128 mb 2 x 120 sata 1 x 80 IDE netgear 1 gigabyte PCI card Thermaltake Xaser 3 server tower ( Black ) *pc (6 / 7) much the same AMD athlon 1.8 133 fsb *512 ram both one is 2 x 256 ddr other is 4 x 128 SD ram 133 both have 4 x 40 gigs and 1 system has 2 x 80 gig sata extra Both have Nvidia (8x) 128 mhz 128 mb 1 system runs at 8x and the other runs at 4 x AGP both netgear 1 gigabyte PCI card *Pc( 8 ) intel slot 1 700 mhz 133 fsb 3 x 128 133 sdram 1 x 40 gig nivida 64 mhz AGP $2.00 cheap case netgear 1 gigabyte PCI card *Pc (9) 1ntel 300mhz 256 ram 133 1 x 128 2 x 64mb 100 fsb Nivida 64 mb PCI MX400 1 x 40 gig hdd $2.00 cheap case 200mb 2 x 10/100 mb network cards (11) computer all up last 3 pc's are Two smoothwall routors and 1 in bits that i test my parts on

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Also go into your bios and set the the AGP setting it might be on first boot vga device as PCI first and allso have to set it in the bios what size graphics card you have to get max proformance for your system it could be set on e.g. boot first slot device PCI 8x agp Disabled agp size 64mb if the bios is set like this it will crash and play up and the card is overloading the motherboard as the bios is set to 64 mb and you are trying to force the slot with a 256 card also in my e.g if you were on pci slot as first boot device instead of (onboard/AGP)it will not be the main first boot up hardware for your screen and depending on the system might boot but have less proformance or might not be stable for long or just allways crash. Plus make shore you have the power plug hooked to the graphics card as it will play up or not work mine tell me if i forget your might do the same. hope this helps as well.

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