Major Quake III problems

slicksilver

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Mar 14, 2000
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For reasons I dont know Quake III lockups on me........once locked up it plays the sound repeatedly in a loop.....and I cant even get back to the desktop until I press the reboot button.......this happens in the retail version as well the demo version.........i've tried using the 1.30 patch to no sucess........can anyone help with this problem? here's my setup

Celery 466
440zx chipset board
320 mb sd ram
asus v6600 32mb geforce sdr
ibm 75gxp 45 gig
philips ae using 1.55 drivers
winme/2k/xp(i've tried it in all of them without success)
using detonators 21.83 and directx 8.1

any help would be greatly appreciated

Raj