HELP: games crashing

[KevinGPO]

I remember being able to run 3 games (Battlefield: 1942, Command & Conquer:
Generals, Total Annihilation) on XP (no Service Packs or updates) playing
games for more than 3 hours without a crash.

Now I am on Service Pack 1a plus Blaster&SasserWorm patches. I can't run my
3 games more than 20mins without a crashout back to windows (error reporting
etc). This problem happens no matter whether I stick with DirectX 8.1 or
9.0b. I have reformated my harddrive and clean installed XP again with SP1a,
etc. But still I get crashouts.

Does anyone know why and how to solve?

 

[Scott Backular]

Its a hardware problem, bad ide cable, ram no setted properly,
powersupply buggered, mobo buggered, buy a new system and all will be
solved

Beats trying to track somthig down, in a few years you will find it
but no hair left, on head, or down bellow areas

Then again thats my idea, iam wrong most of the time though

 

[austinpctech]

I remember being able to run 3 games (Battlefield: 1942, Command & Conquer:
Generals, Total Annihilation) on XP (no Service Packs or updates) playing
games for more than 3 hours without a crash.

Now I am on Service Pack 1a plus Blaster&SasserWorm patches. I can't run my
3 games more than 20mins without a crashout back to windows (error reporting
etc). This problem happens no matter whether I stick with DirectX 8.1 or
9.0b. I have reformated my harddrive and clean installed XP again with SP1a,
etc. But still I get crashouts.

Does anyone know why and how to solve?

Did you ever go out and buy some virus software? Depending on where you got
these patches, you may want to look at exactly what damage the Blaster &
Sasser worms did to your computer. An antivirus program in many cases will
only quarantine or delete a virus but won't repair the damage done to the
OS. You should review the technical details on them to make sure that the
damage was repaired. You do this by going to the antivirus companies
website that detected the virus and look up the exact variant that you were
infected with. Check the technical details and compare what it says to the
current condition of your machine. If it deleted necessary files and they
were never replaced, that's a problem. If it placed registry keys that
shouldn't be there, that could be a problem.

Good Luck