Help Pleeeeze!

[jack]

Decided to treat myself to a top range system. But only one small and
annoying snag
It will run a 3D screensaver for about 1-2 minutes before freezing
solid! It does not freeze in normal operation.

The system is:-

MSI K7N2 Delta - ILSR Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP3200+ and AMD Fan (Retail Pack)
2 GB DDR Ram
2 x Serial ATA Hard Drives
GeForce FX5600 XT 256MB Graphics Card

Running XP Pro
Service Pack 1
DX 9.0
Updated Drivers for GeForce

Got a vague idea it might be graphics related but can't figure it out.
Just wondered what you clever guys thought.

TIA Jack

 

[William W. Plummer]

Decided to treat myself to a top range system. But only one small and
annoying snag
It will run a 3D screensaver for about 1-2 minutes before freezing
solid! It does not freeze in normal operation.

The system is:-

MSI K7N2 Delta - ILSR Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP3200+ and AMD Fan (Retail Pack)
2 GB DDR Ram
2 x Serial ATA Hard Drives
GeForce FX5600 XT 256MB Graphics Card

Running XP Pro
Service Pack 1
DX 9.0
Updated Drivers for GeForce

Got a vague idea it might be graphics related but can't figure it out.

Check your BIOS Sleep time out. Sometimes that will fight with the screen
saver.

 

[JAD]

DirectX version up to date?

 

[jack]

Check your BIOS Sleep time out. Sometimes that will fight with the screen
saver.

Where exactly is the 'Bios Sleep Time Out' and what should it be set
to?

 

[William W. Plummer]

Where exactly is the 'Bios Sleep Time Out' and what should it be set
to?

Sorry, but I don't want to shoot down my system to look for this. Poke
around for words like "hibernate", "sleep", "power down" etc. Sometimes on
portables, there is a timer that will turnoff the hard disk after X minutes
of inactivity. My advice is to disable all those power saving options on a
desktop machine.