Hi, First of all this is my comp specs: Microsoft Windows XP Home edition Version 2002 Service Pack 1 Power Spec Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz 512MB of RAM ATI GRADEON 9800 Pro In my task bar i have normally running: Panda SWdoctor Messenger Deamon tools The problem: When i try to play a 3d game on my comp, the screen get all black and the green light of the monitor becomes orange (wich means it's idle). Before it gets like that i can notice various pixels in the game that are only white or black (sometimes red). When i try to push the button to turn off my monitor it works. But when i pressed again to turn it on the light stays orange. This leaves me with no coice but to shut down my comp. When i turn the comp back on everything works fine. Yesterday I reformated my computer. Wiht the config you have seen at the beguinning. I installed black and white 2 to test, see ifthe problem persisted. It did. When i choose my creature i notice red pixels around them. Please tell what is going on. I have yhe ATI driver installed but not the ATI Catalyst center

Baranov, pure SWAG, lots of games are memory hungry and demand that most things running in the background don't. See if you can cut down on what runs while playing the game. HTH. Ed in Texas.