game and pc problems

[defaye]

Hi everyone,

Any Tekheads that are here, I need your help.
I have windows XP SP1

When I play "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" or "MOHAA" my PC Crashes and comes up with the typical had to close; Send details Don't Send.

The thing is I have been playing this game for 2 years. And I made my new PC about 3 months ago; with this card that was originally running it.

My graphics card is an ATI Radeon Sapphire 9600 Atlantis


I upgraded to an ASUS 9600XT, it played MoHAA but after a while it came up with strange problems, and MoHAA was able to be played for a while then suddenly crash, and not only that but my whole system would turn off instantly, and my PC would restart.

I installed my old card (Atlantis), because I believe my Mobo - a PCCHIPS one that probably isn't good enough for the Card, may have been the problem.

I re-installed Mohaa, and back to square one, because now the game doesn't allow me to load any map. Just crashes to desktop.

I have tried reinstalling all my Graphics card drivers.
I have reset my CMOS settings on the mobo.

I have re-done the Mobo settings to suit the card.
I have reinstalled MoHAA and made sure it was configured for the card.

I do not understand, Why my pc isn't working..

My specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2700+ @ 2.17GHz
512 MB of 400MHz DDR RAM
ATI Sapphire Atlantis 9600
80 GB Hard drive
Windows XP SP1
PCCHIPS Motherboard Socket A M848A(V2.1)

I know its a long shot for anybody to guess....
but somehow, someone might know something.

So advise me please!
Does anyone advise a complete Disk Formatting?

Thx, def

PS: to add to the record of random instant pc cut outs, i wasnt playing any games at all, and my pc turned off. something is wrong, please help.

[liljim]

Make sure you have the latest software avaliable for everything.This includes drivers,windows updates,direct x and any mohaa updates/patches you can get.

should work on your card.





Update what you can if you havent already done so and let us know the result.

[icecube]

I just typed into google "Mohaa crashes" and got a few hits of the same type of problem. There are some system hardware issues --the video card and the os might not like to push the envelope to the limits some programs want. Check out the newsgroups for your games

[noby]