Computer shuts down while playing Ultima 9

[PR-man]

Ok guys I got this problem and I dont know why. my previous system was a celeron 300a @ 450, 128 megs ram (same ram as current system) Abit BH6 rev 1.01, SBlive value (liveware 3 for win2k) and other stuff. My new system is Celeron II 566 @ 952, same ram, Abit BE6 rev 1, sblive value (liveware 3 for win2k) and all same stuff. As with my previous system i have win2k pro and SP1 installed. I also have directx 8 final installed. My vid card for my first system was a Matrox g400 32 meg, my current card is a Matrox G450 32 meg. Now my problem is with Ultima 9, I used to play it in win2k pro on my previous system and had no problems. I have the new install cd that has all the patches etc. Now I have been playing it on my new system and sometimes I will be playing it and after I start running my computer completely turns itself off, not a reboot just POOF no power nothing. only thing that is still on is the Numlock light on the keyboard. Now I can push the power button and the system starts up normally. I am at a lost, I tried turning off EAX and thought that had fixed the problem but no, I tried clocked the celery 2 back to the original 566mhz, no fix, I tried changing video drivers, no fix, I triedsetting my memory to CAS3 instead of CAS2, no fix. HELP GUYS

[Wombat]

what about your power supply? It sounds like it may not be good enough to power everything.

[Jorden]

The G400 and SB-Live combination is a notorious power-sucker, especially if you have more cards in your system.

What's the Wattage of your PSU, and what is asked? Ceck that first, by unplugging a couple of your other cards or hardware (drives), then if that doesn't work, try downclocking on your Celeron II

Jord.

[PR-man]

Well its the same exact 300w PS I had before and it never did this. Also no other games such as UT or others cause the system to shut down while playing. Jorden i tried clocking it to its original 566 but that had no effect. I wonder if DX8 final could be the culprit but wouldnt that effect all my games?

List of cards I have in the system

SBlive Value
Supra Express 56i ISA
Matrox G450 32 meg AGP (fan on heatsink)
I had a PCTV card in there as well but I took it out but made no difference either

Does the G450 suck more power than the G400? I would doubt it. Also my Celeron II 566@ 952 is set at 1.85volts, maybe i need more juice? would 1.9v be to much?

[Casey Jones]

Hey PR,

I heard that there is a new Whistler release that will solve all of your problems and give you a nice speed boost to boot. Just reformat and do it all over again


Casey

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Drivin' that train high on...

[PR-man]

Well Casey im not running Whistler, im running Win2k pro. however i have tried the latest Whistler which is build 2296 and I was not able to get my g450 working. I installed the latest drivers but DX8 told me I had no 3d acceleration.

[PR-man]

I figured it out, all I had to do was disable Bitmap Caching in the Matrox drivers and all is well. Dont know why that would make my computer shutdown while playing Ultima 9 but it was. thx guys

[PR-man]

hehe just as side note, man Ultima 9 is a memory hungry SOB, after i started it up i went back to the desktop and noticed that memory used has gone from 65 megs to 225 megs LOL 160 MEGS!! DAMN

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Celeron II 566@ 952 on a Abit BE6 Rev 1, 128 Pc100, Matrox G450 32 DH, SBlive Value, Supra Express 56i ISA, all running on Win98FE with other odds and ends