Maybe yall can help.

[Memener]

I have been having video problems for awhile.

Every time i play a directx game it runs for a few mins and then i see a blue flash and it restarts.....

OpenGL game run fine so I dont think it hardware.

Here are a few game i tried to play:

Halo - makes the computer reboot
Doom3 - makes the computer reboot
Everquest - makes the computer reboot
GTA3 - makes the computer reboot
unrealtournament GOTY - runs fine
Morrowind - makes the computer reboot
HalfLife - makes the computer reboot

I am not to sure on whats going on.
I have tried reinstalling windowsXP.
Getting up to date Drivers for everthing.
I just have not idea whats going on :(

any help would be very appreshated it

[Speedz]

try different ram.

I had an issue similar to this and my ram had a bad spot in it.

edit: on 2nd thought....G3 did have bad issues with heat. Make sure it isn't caked with dust, and/or getting too hot, maybe mount a cpu fan on it's heatsink.

moved to off topic

Every time i play a directx game it runs for a few mins and then i see a blue flash and it restarts.....

Was there any error message at all? i has this happening because my HD was failing and virtutal memory was buggy cause of it.

[Mongrel]

Doom3 uses OpenGL. Only uses DX for Sound, Input, Network (but that's what most OpenGL games do), so you might want to check those areas.

[Memener]

Yea i just got this error when playing halo its the first time i have seen it most of the time it just reboots.






EDIT i found a way to get to show me the blue screen

these where the error numbers i got:

0x0000008e (0xc0000005 0xbfb9fb86 0XF45FA930 0X00000000)

[daeken_bb]

Originally Posted by Memener

0x0000008e (0xc0000005 0xbfb9fb86 0XF45FA930 0X00000000)

Um, I'm not a Windows dev, so I'm not too familiar with its memory map or its error message format, but you shouldn't really be getting addresses that low (0x0000008e)
If that's a true memory address, then I'd venture to say memory corruption (in the software, not in the hardware... perhaps its a lib that DX uses, or DX itself)

[Cisyouc]

I know what you mean by blue screen. I get those occasionally when I slip in my PCMCIA WiFi card when its on and I don't do it quick enough, it gets confused or something and restarts. So thats making me think it may be a hardware problem.

(Are those the colors you usually have or is that just because of the error? You may need upgraded drivers too :P)

[Memener]

lol i dont know what happen to the colors. My rez 1280 by 1024
not sure why it went to 640 by 480...


I have no clue and wtf is going on with it i might just pay 79.99 and get a nforce2 IGP and new memory if that dosent it i'll get a new video card....

I really like this Geforce 3 ti 500... It still plays todays games(and yes some lag)(but a computer isnt a computer if it dosent lag)

THANK YOU MICROSFT

[Memener]

found out what is was....


Its my video card i need a new one :(