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randomly thrown to desktop

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jjjayb

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I'm having a problem with my system, hopefully one of you guys can help me. In the last couple weeks, I've been getting thrown to the desktop when playing games. Games ranging from live billiards to Soldier of fortune, to operation flashpoint, project igi, blackops vietnam 2. Doesn't seem to matter what game. I get thrown out to the desktop and the game is closed like I was never playing anything. No error message, nothing. Just me sitting back at the desktop. I've reinstalled directx 8.0a, my video card drivers, sound card drivers, checked for irq conflicts, you name it. Any suggestions(aside from get rid of my crappy video card, I'll be doing that in a few weeks). Here are my specs:
Nothing overclocked
1.2 ghz thunderbird(266mhz)
asus a7a266 motherboard
256mb crucial pc2100 ddram
voodoo 3, 2000 PCI (yeah I know)
soundblaster live mp3+
30gig 7200 rpm ata100 maxtor hard drive
Any Ideas? Could my video card overheating do this? I appreciate any help given.

 
It sounds more like something is running in the background, what do you have running? Are you running win 2000? If so open up the task manager and after a game crashes see if there was some sort of memory leak (ie the ram used was maxed out)
 
The only things I have running are systray and explorer. I'm using win98 second editition. I've ctrl alt del after this happens and there's nothing there but the above two.
 
first thing that comes to mind is your alt key may be messed up and it could be throwing you when you hit tab (because alt/tab switches windows)... not necessarily sticking, but it could just be messed up somehow... the same thing happens on my hp desktop sometimes. The only way I have been able to fix it is to tap the alt button.

also, just FYI, ctrl-alt-del doesn't really show you everything thats running...

I know Process Viewer (something that comes with MS Visual Studio) shows you programs that are running that ctrl-alt-del doesn't. You wouldn't happen to have Visual Studio 6 would you?

if you don't have Visual Studio 6, try this program and see if anything else is running:
http://www.teamcti.com/pview/index.htm
 
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