Greenman

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I have an ASRock Daul SATAII running bios 1.6, an Opteron 146 at 2.7Ghz, two raptors running in raid 0, an ATI X800Pro video card, and a 250Gig IDE Maxtor.

A couple days back games started crashing just after they start up, then I noticed that everest stops loading at the loading driver screen. I also can't get into the system part of controll panel. A64 tweaker won't load either. Firefox, Word, Excel and a couple different cad programs all work just fine. ATItool works right as well. I've done a virus and spyware scan, checked the drives, changed out the two sticks of memory, unpluged the second hard drive, dusted, checked temps, set everything at stock speeds, re-seated the heatsink. Nothing helps. I'm stumped.
help

While typing this the controll poped up and I could get into it, I tryed everest and it worked, closed them both and they wont work again. I'm guessing my motherboard is flaking out.

Ideas?
 

Greenman

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Did that, same problem. The computer is stable in everything except games, and memtest shows no errors.
 

furballi

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Reload the games and retest. If okay before with the same video driver, then the card may be defective.