Computer crashing, thinking of new OS..

[FredLocks]

I'm running win 98 and am experiencing occasional crashing playing games, which is all I do on my computer. My comp crashes and reboots, anyways mabey its the OS causing the crashes? What's the most stable OS out there for gaming and my system specs.

Athlonxp 1800+
epox 8kha+
512 megs pc2100
geforce 3 Ti-500 ver22.80
sb audigy

thanks for any input.

 

[bigshooter]

with a system that powerful go xp or win2k. They're the only ones taht will let you use all that ram efficiently anyways. XP will fly with that setup.

 

[virulent]

i prefer 2000 and ive tried the whole windows lineup.

 

[kerykeion]

Why don't you even know what is causing all of the crashes and reboots for your current configuration? You can't just blame the OS. What games are you running and which were crashing? Also, you may want to try newer or older, yet more stable video drivers. nVidia had released some "bad" drivers recently that caused the computer to reboot.

 

[FredLocks]

If I knew what was casuing the crashes kery, I wouldn't have asked for help.....I have all updated drivers. Hence the question "mabey it's my OS"

 

[manly]

Not to mention Win9x is known as a relatively flaky OS.

 

[bacillus]

what psu are you using?

 

[Psychoholic]

If you do decide to switch to another OS, amke sure you perform a clean install. Otherwise there's a good change you'll carry the problem over with you. This, of course, assumes the problem isn't flaky hardware.

 

[corkyg]

Actually it is games that cause most crashes. A computer without games hardly ever crashes. That happens because too many games impose their own subsitute DLL files in the operating system. ME, W2K and XP greatly reduce this threat by protecting system files . . . but then . . . many games don't work right.

 

[sml]

go with XP. i find it a nice mix of the functionality of 9x/ME but with a lot of the cool features [computer management, policy enforcement i.e. password complexity requirements, etc] of 2000/NT. its hardware support is great and i haven't had an issue with it yet.