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Name: Martin
Date: December 31, 2002 at 22:48:29 Pacific
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: 1.5 Mhz Athlon 512Mb
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Every time I start a game after about one minute it crashes to my desktop. Please can you help me, crashes CFS3, Ghost recon, Warcraft 3 etc. Mobo is a Abit KT7A V1.3. I also use a Sound Blaster Audigy sound card .My power unit is an Enermax 431W,+3.3v 35A,+5v 44A, +12v 15A, -5v 2A, -12v 1A, +5Vsb 1.8A, 3.3v & 5v 220W, E type dual Fan. Video card is Elsa Gladiac 920. I have tried my Geforce 3 card in a mates PC with the same mobo & sound card and.....It works fine. I just downloaded all the latest drivers and guess what????????? It still crashed. So I formated my drive and reinstalled XP, Put the latest drivers on and they still crash, the screen flickers a few times then, POW , I am back at my desktop!! Could this be a Motherboard fault? Also tried running games with my old Geforce 2 card and that works. Please please help.



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Name: ryan
Date: December 31, 2002 at 22:52:58 Pacific
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hmm...did you set up your bios configuration correctly?
did you install the lastest chipset drivers for your motherboard as far as bios updates?
check for irq conflicts , try remove all the other cards and leave only the video card, ram on the board and see if it still crashes.


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Name: caullay
Date: January 1, 2003 at 08:14:51 Pacific
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Reinstalled 4 in 1 drivers for mobo. (American 'abit' site suggests using older drivers) tried it, and although it still seems too good to be true, it WORKS!!! Many thanks to everyone that has tried to help me with this!!!

Martin


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