Re: Some games crash XP Home, some don't?

From: blah blah (dudeinaroomagain_at_centurytel.com)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:38:56 -0500

try disabling bios shadowing, and cashing, my msi board will crash every
time playing generals if this is enabled, I belive it is under the second
option in under the main bios screen( at least on mine) and in there some
were there is a swap floppy drive setting, disable that and should put your
drive back to a:, also make shure your on board fdc is enabled(floppy disk
conttroler)can't remeber where thats at good luck, and let me knew if this
helped

Ted

"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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How about the error messages. 

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"Mother Farquhar" <fake@ddress.com> wrote in message 
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>A while back I had a new HD fitted onto my machine and had XP Home put onto
> that. So, the only thing different about my PC is the O/S.
>
> Anyway, suffice to say, even after a lot of patching, defragging, virus
> checking, updating and so on, a lot of my games started crashing to the
> desktop. And I don't mean old games that aren't compatible with XP, 
> either.
> These are new games such as Hal-Life 2, Painkiller and Farcry.
>
> I feel I should point out that other games seem to work fine, such as:
> Diablo 2, Tombraider 2, Civ 3, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and Thief 1 and
> 2.
>
> So what's going on? Most people seem to suggest overheating, but if that
> were true why aren't the above games crashing? Also, why does Farcry crash
> more or less instantly, whereas I can play Painkiller for a while and HL2
> for even longer? Anyway, my CPU never goes above 60 (which I realise is a
> bit on the high side, but it was no higher on Win98 - ON THE SAME PC!).
>
> If it were something like bad RAM, then the above argument would still 
> apply
> (nothing crashed on 98).
>
> By the way, let's get my sys-specs out of the way:
>
> XP Home with all updates apart from SP2
> AMD 2600
> 512 DDR 3200
> 2 HD's with gigs of space
> SB Audigy 2 (latest drivers)
> Radeon 9700 (latest drivers but have tried a lot of others)
> MSI MB with all updates apart from BIOS (see below as to why)
>
> Nothing is overclocked!
>
> Yes, I suppose that updating the BIOS my help but IT'S THE SAME MB! 
> Anyway,
> I would only risk a 'disk' update and not a 'windows' one in case 
> something
> went wrong. Only I can't because my old internal FD was never recognised 
> by
> XP so I had to by an external USB one and that will only be recognised as
> drive "B" not "A". S I haven't risked it, but I have tried the following
> (after consulting lots of old posts:
>
> Lowered AGP to 8
> Put graphics to AGP
> Turned of sys-restore
> Nothing but essentials in background
> Turned off virus checker
>
> And quite a few other things!
>
> One last bit of info I can give you are the temps and voltage of my system
> (I use a utility from MSI to tell me this so I do not have to enter BIOS):
>
> CPU temp: 53
> Sys temp: 42
> FSB: 167
> Vcore: 1.650
> Memory Voltage: 2.60
> AGP voltage: 1.55
> 3.3C: 3.22
> +5v: 4.97
> +12v: 11.42
>
> Lastly, my chip (2600): 167MHz x 12.5
>
> I am posting this message to quite a few groups (not cross-posting) 
> because
> I really am at my wit's end now.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
>
>
>

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