PC Crashing
 

My PC keeps crashing while playing games. It does one of two things it either does a minidump or it just stops reponding and I have to restart it. This first happened with a Quake 3 mod called Urban Terror. So, as it was a downloaded mod I thought it was the program. Since then I have installed a game for my child called "Winnie the Poo Toddler" and it does exactly the same thing. So my next step was to replace the graphics card but this has not improved the situation. The games start fine, and run ok for about 10 min's and then fail. In the past I have formatted the hard drive and reinstalled XP using the Mesh cd but that has not helped either. Please help as the machine is driving me crazy

ASUS P4B motherboard
P4 2ghz
512 RAM
MSI Geforce FX5600
XP Home

I think there might be a xp update for this. Might be worth checking.
-"game stops responding or quits unexpectedly......"
it's under the 'non critical' stuff.......

which other games, is it quake engine based opengl games?
i take it this is not a new thing how long has this been happening?

Winne the poo for toddlers is not Q3 based. And yes its been happening for ages now.It also happened with Ghost Recon

Overheat?
Memory problems?
Drivers?
Could be a number of things?

No Sh*t?!:rofl:
I like that one!:D

The overheating has been suggested by someone else. Asus do a probe to monitor the heat, dont know how accurate it is but have installed it to see. Have also removed the panel on the PC to see if it makes a differance. As for drivers, they have been changed more times than my kaks!, so I cant see it being them. Regarding Memory, is there a tool to test memory???

Sorry that wasn't supposed to be sarcastic

I would sugest doing burn tests with both 3dmark2001 and SiSoft Sandra and see what you get. In particular, sandra can be very usefull for tracking down problems.

sandra :- http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.ht...86&langx=en&a=

3dMark2001 :- http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark2001.shtml

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
Download and run it. It will ask for a floppy or CD-R/W to copy files to. Boot from whatever you copy the files onto and let it run.

Nope but it was funny. Good response Womble:D

Also check the event log for clues....

The latest Nvidia drivers are faulty, got those?

Firstly , I dont appreciate my ip being posted, thank you lynx2oo2.

I have tried ALL the detonator drivers, same thing happens with them all
Of to try SiSoft Sandra

Cheers for your help guys

Womble, only you can see ypur ip address, it uses a script that does a reverse lookup.

no need to worry, no-one else can see it, everyone else just see's their own ip and isp.

as for sandra, let us know what the results are.