Re: Games and dvd keep closing

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From: David (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 06:37:49 -0700

Athlon xp 3200. the fan is more than enough and keeps it
at 39oc. 500watt power supply. 1028mb ram. 80gig HD.
GeForce fx 5200. Its all compatible and works fine
normally its just when i run a program from my CD drive.
Its a Sony DVD/CDRW combo drive (bought from dabs.com and
didn't come with a driver disk. However xp seems to have
recognised it fine. Theres nothing disabled or not working
in devise manager. One thing it might be is that i ran my
mates copy of xp Pro for a few days as a trial (without
activating it) then bought and installed my own (genuine)
copy of xp home. I didn't format the HD drive inbetween
installations i just installed xp home over. will this
make any difference?

???

>-----Original Message-----
>Dave wrote:
>
>> Please help!
>>
>> I've just installed xp home and had no problems. But now
>> when playing games or watching dvds they keep suddenly
>> closing without warning and throwing back into windows.
>> There are no error messages the programs just exit. I've
>> turned off the screen saver and disabled all the live
>> updates etc. There are no programs running in the
>> background which might cause the problem. But it keeps
>> happening less than 5 minutes into each game or dvd.
Could
>> it be a problem with my CD driver? or a hardware
conflict?
>>
>> Help....
>
>What are your computer specs; i.e., processor speed,
amount of RAM,
>power supply, how many devices you have in the computer
(perhaps power
>supply is not beefy enough to handle what you have),
video card, what
>this a clean install or upgrade? We need a lot more
information to be
>able to help you.
>
>Malke
>--
>MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
>Elephant Boy Computers
>www.elephantboycomputers.com
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