...Lame.

Right when I open any game, and I mean any. From Half-life to Halo. at 640x480 I get to play for about 10-14 seconds. Then my screen goes black, my sound loops with about a second loop and progressively gets faster until its like and engine purring. At 1024x768, Right when I click something in the Halo menu my screen goes black, blah blah blah


My system is actually UNDERCLOCKEd now. And no difference. Ram or video card? This is really pissing me off.
Specs in my hardware. Oh yeah, I'm using latest omega-drivers

 

when was your games working before? i have had that problem before with a few games, it sounds like its a driver issue, try reinstalling both the drivers, and the game, both, or one at a time.

 

done that, even tried catalyst drivers. Games working...well I dunno it played doomIII. after doomIII I took a break, just started some games back up but NO!

 

you resinstalled the games and still nothing?, try right clicking on the exe, and have it open it a differrent way, such as in a window, or maximized

 

i've reinstalled games, tried new games. I've had problems with my card in the past. lil' bitch is acting up again. Atleast christmas is soon! gonna get me a 9600xt and some new ram hopefully.

 

im suprised ur playing those games with that card, 9800 pro is not too bad of a price, about 245 i believe

 

or for £150 including vat + delivery you could get a Gainward Ultra 2100LE 6800LE 128mb (8 pipelines)...

yes its "LE" big deal? i followed a guide on the net, and have modded mine to a 6800 128mb with 12 pipelines, as all you ahve to do is connect the disconnected pipelines .. easy peesy

 

Were you playing games ok when you were oced before?

 

Yeah, It was totally stable under OC's running in window didn't do an thing

 

*indian voice*Is your computa plugged in? Dat is very much common mistdake. Is your monitor on? Anoder midake.

 

Yeah I've checked everything. Except different ram and different video card since I don't have any spares...

 

I'd try reinstall XP through a repair install and starting over.

 

That's what I've come to...I'll do that in a few days once all my torrents have cleared
In the mean time, 3-4 straight days of folding!

 

hmm...I might just do that...how do you connect disconnected pipelines?

 

don't no if this of any help had a very similar problem with a new pc i put together it tuned out to be faulty ram. got put onto this site by the suppliers of the ram to check it out www.goldmemory.cz showed mine up to be faulty

 

Haven't heard of that one before, but it seems to be something similar to memtest 86.

 

Damn too bad I don't have a floppy drive, well I have two but I can't get them to work, and I don't have a cdburner. how 1337 is that?

 

not very

 

I'm gonna try diff. ram in my comp that I know works (from a gateway!) let's hope thats that's the problem, just because right now I have around $45 and ram is probably the cheapest piece of hardware. I wonder if 45 bucks will get me some more el cheapo brand ram..

 

It's my video card!!! DAMNIT!!!! crap. Well, I'm getting a 9600XT for my birthday, in a little over a month, and also a gig of kingmax pc3500. . well...I guess I have to wait 'til then! is there any chance that it could be my motherboard? or anything else?