I keep getting booted from games. Help!

[14wntr]

I am trying to narrow this problem down so I can hopefully fix it. The problem is that when I play almost any 3d game I get booted out. It is not so much as when, because there are times when I play for an hour and there are times that play for 3 min. The games I play are as follows: Midtown madness, NFS 3, Mech W3, Rouge Spear.
I have a G400 running at 145/193 I use a PIII 450@558 2.2v.124fsb 224mb PC-100 ram on a BP-6 mobo.Temp is under 40C. The G400 is fanned also. I use the 5.30 Pdesk. Win 2ed.I have kids and there are some minor scratches on the disks, but I have tried new disks with the same results. Any pointers, guesses, or fixes would be great!

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14wntr
Earth First!(We can mine the other planets later)

[Kruzin]

Does it still crash if you don't overclock everything?

[14wntr]

This has been a problem since I installed the G400. I just started Oc'ing. (last month)

[merchant2112]

try forceing agp 1x and reboot. i was getting random lockups that fixed the problem.

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its here, it's together and all the bugs are worked out.
msi 6167 mobo k7 500 wk41 now at 650.(not overclocked its a real 650 they underclcoked.) 256 meg ram ,addtronics case w 250watt sp power supply, matrox g400, maxtor diammax 2500+ 10gig hd,10x aopen slot dvd, 3com 10/100 nic and 56k ext modem, xitel p storm sound card. lots of controlers joystick throttle rudder raceing wheel, and 19in monitor,microsoft inteli mouse explorer(5 buttons). klip promedia v2-400 speakers.

noel

[Chewbacca]

Try increasing your swap file size. I had the same problem with certain games (ie. NHL 2000 and Need for Speed IV). Hope this helps!

[MotherDawg]

Hi

Was this your first GFX card on tha machine?
You might have old stuff lying around in there. they will show up in the following steps.

Check this: (BTW, if you mess up... you clicked... I didn't... but I do this almost every day)

Restart in safe mode (they won't show in normal mode)
go to the device manager
click open every thing EXCEPT the "System Devices" (you don't wanna play in that one)
If in one of these devices you have multiple entries of the same thing, delete them all.
If you have some of those "!", start fixing.

Then, the story of my life, restart.

Be prepared to feed your PC with all the driver's CDs and diskettes.

Have fun


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Celery 366 OCed @ 458(83), Soyo 6BA+III, 64MB SDRAM, Millennium G400 DualHead (486 cpu fan), SB Live! Value, FBall KA 13.1Gig (7200rpm), Mitsumi CR-4804TE CD-RW, Intel based 21140 10/100 NIC, Nortel Networks HSA1300 1-meg ADSL modem and also a ModemBlaster DI5630... enough!