Hey out there, this has been killing me for the last few days: I built a new comp this week with a bunch of new parts and some canabalized old parts from my previous PC. Installed Windows Vista, works for everything else but always crashes about 10-15 minutes into playing games (HL2, M2TW, WIC). First I updated all drivers for the mobo, graphics card, HD audio, wireless networking. Also the BIOS on the mobo. Still the same problem. I thought it might be a vista problem so I used this 94010 hotfix. Still the same problem. Next I tried doing a dual boot with Vista and XP to see if I could play games with XP. Still the same problem in XP which makes me believe it is a hardware issue. These are my specs- New Parts: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHz XFX nForce 680i motherboard EVGA GeForce 8800gts 640MB Western Digital Caviar RE2 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Vista Home Premium 32-bit Used Parts (All almost 3 years old): 2GB (4x512MB) CORSAIR XMS2 512MB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 533 (PC2 4300) Model CM2X512-4300C3 Antec TRUE550 ATX 550W Power Supply (this had a 20-pin instead of 24-pin connector, a 4-pin instead of an 8-pin CPU connector, amdI used an adapter for the pci-e 6-pin power) Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Driv Linksys Wireless-g PCI adapter WMP54G v4.1 SONY Beige IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model DDU1613 SONY DVD Burner Beige IDE Model DW-D18A 3.5" floppy So I'm thinking the 2 most suspect things are the power supply (since it's old and doesn't have the expanded connections) and the RAM (since it's old and I've heard that Vista doesn't handle 4 ram dimms too well). However I don't want to dump another $200-300 without asking for any advice. Is there anyone out there who can help?
What about your Video adapter ? Is it onboard or Pci or Agp ? This sounds like a Video or a Ram problem to me.
