Need some computer help

[DracoPaladore 0]

For the past few months, after putting in my AMD 2400(2ghz) motherboard into my computer, I've been getting some strange errors with certain games.

First, my specs.

AMD Athlon 2400+, ~2.0GHz

Windows XP Professional

Direct X 9.0c

512 MB Kingston RAM

Radeon 9600 Series AGP 256mb DDR Memory

SoundMAX Digital Audio (built into Motherboard)

Personally, I'm not sure if its my computer or maybe some other peice of hardware.

The problem is usually a blue screen with no text or information shown. The computer will then reboot itself after a few seconds and bring up windows again. Windows dosn't know anything, dosn't bring up any error report.

Another is a irregular report that I receive sometimes saying the my video cards AGP or vide processor is not receiving information or something along those lines(sorry).

These problems became apparant when running these games for the blue screen:

Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries

Full Spectrum Warrior Demo

Vietcong: Single Player Demo

Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin

For the AGP not receiving:

City of Heroes

Full Spectrum Warrior

Unreal Tournament 2004

Does anyone know a way to fix this, if I have a specific problem, or if a peice of hardware is directly responsible for these errors?

[GoOB 0]

Hrm... What AGP apperature does your motherboard support? And what is your AGP aperature set to?

[Placebo 12]

Make sure all your hardware is plugged in right, few years back I was getting constant CTD's and reboots, tried everything, new drivers, new bios, reinstalled, formatted, everything I could think of, then I looked inside the box and noticed that when my graphics card was screwed in tight it actually meant it pulled it up at the far end and wasn't snug, so I loosened the screw, pushed it back in, tightened the screw only a little and the problem was solved

[lee_h._oswald 0]

Update all important drivers:

-Chipset (nforce, via, sis ) (depends on what mainboard you exactly use)

-VGA

-Onboard Sound

Update your BIOS and configure it.

You can also try to put RAM into another slot.

MfG Lee

[DracoPaladore 0]

I forgot to add that I have also had my VPU reset my graphics card due to response failure.

Could this be what Placebo was mentioning? I wish I could fix it now, but I have to wait until later on today to do it.

[Placebo 12]

I always turn VPU recovery off because it supposedly does more harm than good.

IIRC with the 9600 series you have to turn fast writes off because it'll make your system unstable, are they turned off?

[DracoPaladore 0]

Its off.

So I should just turn VPU recovery off.

One down

[Placebo 12]

If it isn't already set your AGP to 4x (or even try lower, doesn't make a huge difference to performance), as GoOB asked what is the AGP aperture set to? Try 128mb or less.