i have just upgraded my graphics card and mainboard whilst both of these seem to work fine after playing online for ten mins or so the game im playing crashes iv tried a few games now and this problem seems to be the same with all my pc has a pentium4 3.06 chip iv got 1024mb ram and a 6600gt card with the latest drivers do you think this is simply a set up problem or something worse im not shaw what steps i need to make to find out where the problem lies do you think you could help

My system has been upgraded to a pentium4 3.06,1024mbram,6600gt card.
after playing online for 5to10 mins the game im playing crashes iv tried a few games now and the same prblem arrises on all.Do you think this is simply a setup fault or something worse im a little unshaw what steps to make to eliminate the possible fault.If you could help i would be grateful

Are you running XP? If so was XP reinstalled after the board change?

Can you verify that the fan on the graphics card is running OK? (If there is one).
Also I see that this card has it's own power supply line. Are you sure that that is plugged in?


Also: look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id especially of errors that seem to coincide with a crash.


Also: Go to start | search (type in) .dmp
Note the location of your latest .dmp file.

Then:

1) Download and install the
Debugging Tools from Microsoft
2) Download and install this
debugwiz
3) Open the Wiz & Browse to, or paste in the path to, your latest .dmp file.
4) After the Wiz creates a Text document attach it back to this thread.