I have been working on this problem for almost 2 months, and no one will help me. I was hoping I could find some friendly faces here.

Whenever I play any game that uses 3d acceleration, the game crashes within a few minutes. My computer will either freeze, reboot or blue screen. It started for seemingly no reason after using the same graphics card for almost 6 months. System:
800 mhz P3 (dont laugh)
384 MB RAM
WinXP
Radeon 9200se

I must have tried 50 things twice to try and fix it, by process of elimination I'm completly stumped. I have formatted my hard drive. I'm not over-heating or over-clocking. Tried several ATI catalyst video drivers. All of these things plus multiple settings changes that I won't bother trying to list them all here.

Someone please help!

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

What psu do you have?

Have you tested you ram for errors?

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

I have switched out my ram sticks and tried running less RAM, no help.
I don't know what my PSU is, how do i find out?

The wattage of your psu should be written on a label on the psu itself.

In order to test your ram. download and run the Memtest86+ programme from www.memtest.org.

Let it run for at least seven passes. If you don`t have a floppy drive, there is an iso version that you can burn to cd, and then boot from that.


Regards Howard

300W power supply
both my floppy drive and cd burner don't work. I'll work on them to see if i can get one of them working.

Ran the memtest and had no errors.

It could be that it`s your video card`s ram that is going bad. Can you try your card in another system? Maybe try a different psu.

Regards Howard