won't play a game

[rayveron]

I Have A Ati Radeon 9700 Pro 128 Ram Card.when Gameplay Starts The Monitor Goes To Standby And The Cpu Hangs. Have To Shut Down. Have Tried Updating Driver,reinstalling And Reformating Drive. Any Ideas Please

 

[musixdude]

Same thing happeend to me...

I had this same issue a few days ago. I downed new drivers, directx, format, tested power, heat, etc. Nothing worked, this only happens in Direct X games, not Windows apps explorer, word anything. I formatted my drive thinking it may be a virus, then I found this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315614/en-us

Try this before doing anythign else.

 

[rayveron]

i'll give it a try

Thanks For The Advice. Hope It Works