Subject: Always Hangs when playing 3D games. Please help!!

[footy]

My configuration:
MSI K7T Pro with AMD 650
MSI Geforce2 MX graphic card
Hyundai PC-133 256 Ram
Maxtor 15G and IBM 15G HD (Maxtor with Window98SE, IBM with Window2000)
Sony CDU 571 CD Rom and Matshitu CDRW-7585
Logitech Coreless Mouse
Macronix MX98715 Fast Ethernet Adapter
HCF PCI CXT1035 Internal Modem
All with the latest drivers

Problems:
1. It always hang when I play some 3D games (both using Window 98SE and Window 2K), e.g. The Typing of the Dead. For other application, it is normal.
2. There is 1 active partition on each HD, is it ok? (i.e. totally 2 active partitions on 2 HD)
3. When I leave my computer alone, the screen messes up after 10 mins and then hangs. What happens?
4. It sometimes restarts automatically.
5. Run CPU Stability Test by Jouni Vuorio, it crashes.

It seems there is something wrong with the graphic cards but I am not sure what happens. All 3D games works on my old Pentium system.

Thank you.

 

[Bakwetu]

I assume that you made a clean install of the OS when you upgraded from your pentium machine and that you have istalled via 4in1 or the agp driver?

If it reboots by itself sometimes and hangs during 3d games it is probably a power supply problem or it could be a bad stick of memory. What power supply do you have? Could you try with another?

Q no 3: What settings do you have for power saving mode (check both the bios settings and the windows settings). Try disabling power saving and see if the problem disappears.

Edit also check the other thread