Mshaw76117
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Hello! First time posting, I've been fighting with this for awhile now and am at the end of my rope. I have an Intel Pentium 2.8 and a Leadtek 7600 GT AGP in my Case I recently purchased. I've been playing games since DOS, so I'm reasonably adept at the computer.
Whenever I run 3d games within a few minutes my screen goes black and the sound loops...I have to manually reboot to get back to the desktop.
All my drivers for my sound card and Graphic card are up-to-date.
Motherboard drivers, monitor drivers, Direct-X etc. are all up-to-date.
The card is not over-clocked nor running hot. My power-supply is a recently purchased expensive 400 Watt,the highest I could go with my Dell Dimension 4500. This card is a low powered card and shouldn't require more. I've checked the inside and everything seems to be connected well. 2-d games work perfectly, and my 3-d games work fine for a few minutes until the blackout. It does not disconnect from the monitor when it does this.
Everything else about my computer is running flawlessly and has been for a long time. I do constant up-dates and the registry is cleaned regulary.
Tested Ram and it came up fine.
I always disable Anti-Virus and any other backgroud applications when playing. I run the games at about 1024x768 and usually without AA or AF and I still get this.
Does anybody have any suggestions as I'm already going bald and don't feel like pulling out what little hair I have left?
Mike(Thanks for any help in advance)
Whenever I run 3d games within a few minutes my screen goes black and the sound loops...I have to manually reboot to get back to the desktop.
All my drivers for my sound card and Graphic card are up-to-date.
Motherboard drivers, monitor drivers, Direct-X etc. are all up-to-date.
The card is not over-clocked nor running hot. My power-supply is a recently purchased expensive 400 Watt,the highest I could go with my Dell Dimension 4500. This card is a low powered card and shouldn't require more. I've checked the inside and everything seems to be connected well. 2-d games work perfectly, and my 3-d games work fine for a few minutes until the blackout. It does not disconnect from the monitor when it does this.
Everything else about my computer is running flawlessly and has been for a long time. I do constant up-dates and the registry is cleaned regulary.
Tested Ram and it came up fine.
I always disable Anti-Virus and any other backgroud applications when playing. I run the games at about 1024x768 and usually without AA or AF and I still get this.
Does anybody have any suggestions as I'm already going bald and don't feel like pulling out what little hair I have left?
Mike(Thanks for any help in advance)