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post #1 of 9
5/31/03 at 10:48pm
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When ever i play age of mythology demo or Elite force II demo after a while my computer completly crashes and restarts. This happens very suddenly. When it restarts i submit the report thing to microsoft and it says that there's a drive conflict, or something like that.

I've got a sager 4046 2.8ghzp4 64mb ATI 9000. I'm currently using the Catalyst 3.4 drivers but it also did this to me with the drivers that where installed when i got the comp, not sure if they where the 3.2 or the 3.4 but after the first time this happened i uninstalled the original drivers and installed the 3.4.

Anyone have any idea why this is happening? and how i could fix it?
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post #2 of 9
5/31/03 at 11:23pm
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ok, i was about to check out the drivers off of sagers website, but since i just got the comp they should be the same was what i originally got. What you said probably explains why it happened with the original drivers i had and the new ones i installed.
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post #3 of 9
6/14/03 at 1:52am
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well my computer continues to crash while i'm playing games. The system seems to completly shut down, a blue screen flashes for a split second and than it starts back up. The error report thing keeps saying its a driver issue but i'm begining to think my computer is overheating. This is after playing a game for a couple hours.
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post #4 of 9
6/14/03 at 11:23am

welcome to the club...

Mine just freezes ( I had that blue screen problem before as well). The blue screen said that there was a problem with the 2002/11 driver and I've been using cat32 ever since
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post #5 of 9
6/16/03 at 12:32pm
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It kinda sounds like thats something different. I do actually get the blue screen of death. Hopefully it is anyways i don't want to have to send my computer in.
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post #6 of 9
6/16/03 at 5:19pm

System is probably overheating

One possible problem is your motherboard/video card is overheating.

Low video requirement games = no freezes or errors


High video requirement games = freezed and errors


I am waiting on a laptop cooler to test this theory. I purchased the aluminum cooler from Bytecc.
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post #7 of 9
6/16/03 at 10:45pm
I have a similar freeze problem gaming with my 5670 / 128MB M9, but don't get an XP error report after manual cold reboot.

I'm very interested to hear how the replacement motherboard works out for you. I have reloaded XP SP1 with minimal drivers more than once trying to fix without results.

Good luck
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post #8 of 9
6/19/03 at 3:01pm
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sof2 doesnt' do that to you? i definitly get the bsod with sof2.
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post #9 of 9
6/20/03 at 2:18am
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the performance difference has to be because of the graphics card. Big difference between the two.
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