Maybe yall can help.
 

I have been having video problems for awhile.

Every time i play a directx game it runs for a few mins and then i see a blue flash and it restarts.....

OpenGL game run fine so I dont think it hardware.

Here are a few game i tried to play:

Halo - makes the computer reboot
Doom3 - makes the computer reboot
Everquest - makes the computer reboot
GTA3 - makes the computer reboot
unrealtournament GOTY - runs fine
Morrowind - makes the computer reboot
HalfLife - makes the computer reboot

I am not to sure on whats going on.
I have tried reinstalling windowsXP.
Getting up to date Drivers for everthing.
I just have not idea whats going on :(

any help would be very appreshated it :)

try different ram.

I had an issue similar to this and my ram had a bad spot in it.

edit: on 2nd thought....G3 did have bad issues with heat. Make sure it isn't caked with dust, and/or getting too hot, maybe mount a cpu fan on it's heatsink.

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Was there any error message at all? i has this happening because my HD was failing and virtutal memory was buggy cause of it.

Doom3 uses OpenGL. Only uses DX for Sound, Input, Network (but that's what most OpenGL games do), so you might want to check those areas.

Yea i just got this error when playing halo its the first time i have seen it most of the time it just reboots.



http://img93.exs.cx/img93/9987/omfgthissucks0lf.jpg


EDIT i found a way to get to show me the blue screen

these where the error numbers i got:

0x0000008e (0xc0000005 0xbfb9fb86 0XF45FA930 0X00000000)

Um, I'm not a Windows dev, so I'm not too familiar with its memory map or its error message format, but you shouldn't really be getting addresses that low (0x0000008e)
If that's a true memory address, then I'd venture to say memory corruption (in the software, not in the hardware... perhaps its a lib that DX uses, or DX itself)

I know what you mean by blue screen. I get those occasionally when I slip in my PCMCIA WiFi card when its on and I don't do it quick enough, it gets confused or something and restarts. So thats making me think it may be a hardware problem.

(Are those the colors you usually have or is that just because of the error? You may need upgraded drivers too :P)

lol i dont know what happen to the colors. My rez 1280 by 1024
not sure why it went to 640 by 480...


I have no clue and wtf is going on with it i might just pay 79.99 and get a nforce2 IGP and new memory if that dosent it i'll get a new video card....

I really like this Geforce 3 ti 500... It still plays todays games(and yes some lag)(but a computer isnt a computer if it dosent lag)

THANK YOU MICROSFT

http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/at...nites_rule.jpg

found out what is was....


Its my video card i need a new one :(