Re: Some games crash, some don't?

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From: Dan (spamyou_at_user.nec)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:01:35 -0700

There is no true MS-DOS in XP -- 98SE does have true MS-DOS mode

Rember that XP is based upon the NT (New Technology) source code while 98SE
is based upon the 9x source code that has its roots back in MS-DOS.

>From Gary Terhune, MVP:
  XP has a command.com prompt but no true MS-DOS mode.

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OrE51pVAFHA.1908@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
: XP may not recognize your floppy drive but I will bet that, baring a
: defective drive, you can still boot up into DOS with a properly prepared
: floppy. That is how you update the bios. Give it a try and see. Be certain
: to backup your old bios first. Also enter the old bios and write down the
: various settings as they are NOW. After a bios upgrade you will have to set
: the new bios accordingly.
:
: Last bit! If the bios update fails, DO NOT REBOOT OR TURN OFF YOUR
COMPUTER!
: If you do, you will/may be locked out of your system. Use another computer
: to go on-line and search Google to find out what your options are.
:
: --
: Regards,
:
: Richard Urban
:
: aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
:
: If you knew as much as you thought you know,
: You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
:
:
: "Mother Farquhar" <fake@ddress.com> wrote in message
: news:vgLId.973$gF2.666@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
: >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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