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Sandals
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Joined: January 21, 2002
Posts: 2001
From: Redmond,WA,USA
|  Posted: 2004-03-07 01:12
The best way to test is to disconnect your cd drives (just pull out the power, you can leave in the IDE cable), and then try the same action. If it works this time, your power supply is either FUBAR or needs to be bigger.
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Chubba
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Joined: April 29, 2003
Posts: 293
From: Australia
| Posted: 2004-03-07 08:23
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On 2004-03-06 22:08, BackSlash wrote:
had that exact problem
lower your FSB settings in your bios..it shoulf fix it
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So how do we do that FSB?
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Chubba
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Joined: April 29, 2003
Posts: 293
From: Australia
| Posted: 2004-03-07 08:31
No its not the power supply..
i have 400w power supply
what is FSB? (front side bus?)
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JM
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Joined: March 24, 2003
Posts: 146
| Posted: 2004-03-07 09:05
Hi,
For radeon i think its driver version go visit site they have a solucion there.
Chubba i hope you can fix prob updating grafic driver.
regards, JM
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Chubba
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Joined: April 29, 2003
Posts: 293
From: Australia
| Posted: 2004-03-07 18:42
Hey, JM
Nope it didt fix it...
SO what do i do now?
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Distel {Combat BUMpkin} Stolz
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Joined: April 04, 2003
Posts: 85
| Posted: 2004-03-20 21:11
I have the same problem: Start playing DS...play from 30 seconds to a half hour, and "click", my computer reboots.
system specs (homebuilt):
FIC AZ11 Socket A MB w/ 800MHz Athlon Thunderbird
512 SDRAM
Radeon 7500 ( or, on occasion, nVidia gForce 2 MX/MX 400)
Creative SB Audigy
80, 20, 10 and 7 GB Hard Drives
Running Windows 98se with latest microsoft updates
300 W power supply
Latest DirectX version (9.2b?)
I do play from behind a firewall, but that has never been a problem before with respect to DS game play.
I have tried all the suggestions in this thread:
1. unistalled DS, and reinstall
2. uninstall Radeon drivers, install newest (as of 03/10/04) drivers
3. set FSB to lowest setting
4. tried disconnecting CD ROM, Hard drives etc. to reduce power drain
5. removed Radeon card and installed backup nVidia gForce2 card with latest drivers.
None of the above changed anything except that I could play longer with the nVidia gForce 2 card.
Between the last version of DS and the present version, I have altered NOTHING on my computer.
I am stumped...any ideas?
[small][ This Message was edited by: Distel Stolz on 2004-03-20 21:14 ][/small]
[ This Message was edited by: Distel Stolz on 2004-03-20 21:43 ]
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Dempster
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Joined: August 03, 2003
Posts: 668
| Posted: 2004-03-21 00:14
heh, ive got a ooolllllddd computer that i use and it runs just fine, eh they sure dont build em like they used to...
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Distel {Combat BUMpkin} Stolz
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Joined: April 04, 2003
Posts: 85
| Posted: 2004-03-22 03:39
Fixed the problem: Too many devices sharing the same IRQ with video card. Don't know how that came to be...since I didn't do it...but its fixed nonetheless 
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MoD
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Joined: March 16, 2003
Posts: 112
From: CANADA
| Posted: 2004-03-22 07:19
i have a P4 2.4/512 MB/ 30GB/ 400 MHZ FSB/ GeForce FX 5200 PCI
it works fine.... NEVER restarted my computer... it quit maybe 30 times on me alrdy... just ends. And i have Windows XP,, maybe that has something to do with it.
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Neonin
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Joined: March 26, 2004
Posts: 2
| Posted: 2004-03-30 08:42
Since the update yesterday I've been getting a continual crash problem like those described here. Originally I could play for about 2-4 minutes before the system would reboot. I tried updating my graphics card drivers first, no improvement. Then after reading this thread I checked my IRQ's to ensure nothing was conflicting, nothing is on the same IRQ as the graphics card (IRQ 16). I then lowered my FSB (So my 1.5Ghz processor was running at 1.2 instead) and that allows me to play the game for about 10 minutes before resetting the computer. It's really bugging me because it only started happening after the update. Any other suggestions from anyone?
AMD AthlonXP 1800+ Processor (1533Mhz default setting)
256MB DDR-RAM
GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB Graphics Card
Windows XP Professional Operating System
Soundblaster Live! 1024 Sound Card
Cable Internet Connection
** UPDATE **
As of today I have tried the following solutions that have been suggested in various parts of the forum:
Setting AGP mode to 2x
Disabling AGP FastWrite
Updating all drivers to latest versions
Re-installing DarkSpace
Lowering FSB
Installing older versions of graphics drivers (44.03)
Installing suggested graphics drivers (Omega)
Final resort - Formatting entire system and re-installing everything
I'm sad to say none of this appears to have had any effect whatsoever. The game still crashes 2-4 minutes after connecting to a server. I guess I'll wait for the next patch and hope it fixes something that will enable me to continue playing.
** 2nd UPDATE **
With the gracious and knowledgable help of both Gideon and Tael, I tracked the problem down to faulty RAM. Guess I need some more  I'll leave this post (unless someone deletes it) as information for anyone else who has this problem.
[small][ This Message was edited by: Neonin on 2004-03-31 15:24 ][/small]
[ This Message was edited by: Neonin on 2004-04-01 15:04 ]
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