Game crashes

Have XP Home Edition---Play games offline---every, not
some not occassionaly but every time I start a game it
inevitably crashes, not to the desktop but through the
desktop to restart the computer---I have tried games from
EA, Activision, Infogrames, 400 Software Studios, 3DO,
Microsoft, Sierra and others they all crash---all XP
updates have been installed, all drivers have been
updated, no viruses present disk has been defragged---
system works well with other programs---Any ideas---any
at all ????

Hi Piper66,

Your system is most likely restarting as a result of a STOP error.

To stop this behavior go to Control Panel / System / Advanced /
Click the Startup and Recovery Settings button / Uncheck the box
labelled "Automatically restart" under the System Failure section.

To analyse the error, try the steps in: http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

If the error indicates a file name that begins with ati, or nv (nVidia)
the most likely solution would be to install the latest drivers using
the instructions at: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html#drivers

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Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
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"Piper66" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9dca01c3eab7$96b0f4c0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
| Have XP Home Edition---Play games offline---every, not
| some not occassionaly but every time I start a game it
| inevitably crashes, not to the desktop but through the
| desktop to restart the computer---I have tried games from
| EA, Activision, Infogrames, 400 Software Studios, 3DO,
| Microsoft, Sierra and others they all crash---all XP
| updates have been installed, all drivers have been
| updated, no viruses present disk has been defragged---
| system works well with other programs---Any ideas---any
| at all ????

I have virtually the same problem .. all games will not run, with the exception of EA's Tiger Woods Golf game, for some reason. When it locks up, I have to use the cntrl/alt/delete to get out, and the cpu usage in 'applications' shows 100%. A month ago everything worked fine but 'restore' won't fix it. I've tried all of the fixes you have, and more

I have the NIVIDIA GeForce ti 4200 . . . what card are you using?

A typical conflict between drivers versions.

ATI have a uninstaller utility, maybe nvidia too.

Maybe is the "infinite loop" problem = drivers version
conflict.

Unistall the card from the agp slot, and install it again.
Maybe is a bad installation.


>-----Original Message-----
>Have XP Home Edition---Play games offline---every, not
>some not occassionaly but every time I start a game it
>inevitably crashes, not to the desktop but through the
>desktop to restart the computer---I have tried games from
>EA, Activision, Infogrames, 400 Software Studios, 3DO,
>Microsoft, Sierra and others they all crash---all XP
>updates have been installed, all drivers have been
>updated, no viruses present disk has been defragged---
>system works well with other programs---Any ideas---any
>at all ????
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