It seems every time I go to play games like Operation Flashpoint or Rainbow Six: Raven Shield,I get some kind of odd blue-screen (of death). I am not going to type it out word-for-word,but it says that I should reboot and if necessary use safe mode,I shoud check for BIOS updates, and check drivers and new hardware. I know none of these things are an issue. Also on the screen it lists an error in a string of text looking something like "1x.0000012" or something similiar. Following that is a timer counting to a system memory dump. From there I must hard boot. Right off the bat I am telling you all my drivers are recent, the games in question are patched and running in XP compatibility mode, I am not using Tweak NT, and I am running WinSerer 2k3 as a workstation via the guide at Microsoft.org. With that said, I also get a weird error message at every startup saying "One or more drivers failed at startup. Check event viewer for details." I did just as it instrucetd and nothing pecuilar. The first time I noticed this was after I installed video card drivers. AS well, in DX-Diag AGP Texture Acceleration is greyed (not enabled) out and in the ATI-Control Panel the SMART Gart tab is non-existent. Any and all help is appreciated as to why certain games of mine crash to this blue screen. (Mind you,many games do work,though.) Thanks in advance. System Specs: OS:Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition CPU: Athlon Thunderbird 1.3 ghz MO-BO: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (Revision 2.o) RAM: 512 MB of GEiL Golden Dragon Dual Channell DDR 400 Video Card: Radeon 9700 Pro HD: 7200 RPM 40GB Samsung

the problem is simple, you don't have the correct driver.. please use the latest windows XP from the manufacturer web site. if error still occured, please check the event viewer for any error..

Not for nothing, but you do realize the this is SERVER software we're talking about, not a tricked out home user OS, right?

It is a very good Note seawitch. And desperado.. I believe you are also correct. First he said.."I shoud check for BIOS updates, and check drivers and new hardware. I know none of these things are an issue" Then he says...With that said, I also get a weird error message at every startup saying "One or more drivers failed at startup. OK chris.. one of more drivers= how the operating system performs certain task. Drivers not loading= OS not doing what it is suppose to do which= blue screen of death. You said that nothing particular in the event viewer. My response.. find the event viewer and look... Everything that is happening illegial in the OS is being log filed and is in the event viewer. Write that stuff down and post back here... Then someone can help you!Because they and I will know how to address the issue.