Help! Help! HELP! - direct3d problems (drastic)

[dekenfe]

my computer was all working fine until the other day

I recently upgraded my computer to
750 duron
sl-kav75
tnt2m64
64m ram
WIN98

i know its not the hottest machine out there but its all I could afford for the moment (poor student). I got a lot of games on the weekend including Q3 arena and it all worked fine (in fact i was litteraly stunned by the good quality). Then on tuesday somthing went real wrong. I was playing halflife when it crashed (just exits out for no reason now) and quake 2 would not load starcraft crashed quake3 no response either, even explorer failed. These were generally accompanied by kerenel32.dll errors. I dont know what happend. I turned the computer off and walked away. When i came back i discovered it was half better quak2 and starcraft now worked as well as Iexplore onloy crashing somtimes (illeagle operation). Half-life only seems to work in my girlfriends profile but. Quake3 still does not work (is really choppy and slow when loading opening avi's).

The problem sees to be in the direct3d module as there are funny flashes and strange things happening when it is used (even in dxdiags). I downloaded directx8 it might fix it - it didn't. I reinstalled my old display drivers (over detenator 3) - no effect. I have no idea what to do... someone please help me I'm going slowly insane.

thanks for listening
dylan

 

[Hanky]

You did make a fresh installation of Windows and did set up all drivers and such stuff (Via 4in1, DirectX, Detonator) correctly?

 

[dekenfe]

Yes i completley formatted the hardrive and started again all drivers were installed correctly etc.

 

[Hanky]

Did you install them in the right order ((1) 4in1, (2) DirectX, (3) Detonator)?

Maybe you got a bad memory stick? I once got Kernel32.dll error messages when I had a bad memory stick in my system.

Can you exclude heat as a reason for the crashes? Do the crashes appear after using the PC for a while and does the system work alright after a cold boot?

 

[dekenfe]

yes i did try that and yes i did it in that order
-dylan

 

[dekenfe]

the problem realy lies in the video it is flickering with triangles and is not in any way supporting openGL or direct3d the heat is deffinatley not the problem as it will crash when running openGL or D3d programs. I really dont know why Iexplorer has started crashing as well.

Thanks again
dylan

 

[Hanky]

A friend of mine also had this "flickering with triangles" problem. In the end it turned out to be a bad video card. Fortunately he still had warranty, so he got a new one and the problems went away. He had no crashes though.