i finally got a new PC *but* ...

[thetechfreak]

i got a new pc yesterday for my 15th b/day, speccy;

AMD Athlon 1800 XP
256mb DDR RAM
40GB HDD
GeForce 3 128mb Ti 200
Gigabyte Mobo

now i have a few gfx problems;
RA2 install crashes gfx card
Air Attack (1996 multiplayer online flight sim www.airattack.co.uk) crashes gfx card
ThemeParkWorld crashes gfx card
Black & White *doesn't* crash gfx card

anyone have the same card and has experienced (and fixed) the above?

[Grinnin Reaper]

First things first. SPAMDo you have the latesest drivers? SPAMI just got a new Dell laptop on thursday and had to reinstall all but 2 drivers on the system to get the latest. SPAMAnd if you're PC manufacture doesn't have any updates check with NVidia they may have newer refrence drivers. SPAMI don't use refrence drivers much because manufacture specific drivers are refined for your card and stuff like that. SPAMHowever if your PC manufacture is slow to update drivers or they go out of buisness SPAM:o which does happen sometimes, try the chipset manufacturer website and look it up by chipset. SPAMThis will fix 9 out of 10 crash problems especially when it's diffrent games. SPAMYou may also want to check with the makers of the games and see if they have any pathces. SPAMAlso are you running XP if you are is it home or pro. SPAMI know pro lets you run stuff in diffrent compatibility modes, but I'm just startin' to expirement with that. SPAMHope that helps.

[thetechfreak]

i forgot to mention i have win xp which doesn't matter now anyway

i downloaded the latest drivers off nvidia (when i first went there it thought Detonator was a type of card, not an all in one driver)

everything works fine now

o yea, when attempting to overclock in the BIOS i completely screwed up the computer and i couldn't get into BIOS to change it as nothing happened on boot, ended up taking the CMOS out, also my BIOS's fail-safe defaults dont work, they actually screw up the PC!

[Grinnin Reaper]

That sucks man. SPAMDid you get it back up and runnin' after the BIOS accident. SPAMAnd dont' fear been there, done that, cleared the cmos. SPAM;D