Help!

[Onslaught]

Ok, heres the deal.

I've been having problems with my computer and what not. But thanks to the users of toms hardware I've resolved most of the issues.

Heres where it gets weird. My OS and other programs run great. My games wont. I've come to believe that it might be my video card. I have a ati 9500 pro. Heres whats happens.

I run a game of warcraft III or Unreal 2003 and it crashes within 30 seconds.
So I first thing I think is perhaps it might be my ide connection since the cd checks for itself while the game is running. I got a crack for warcraft III and it still does it. So then I remember reading a post long ago saying that perhaps I need to make sure the ati card has its own power cable, and isnt sharing. So I did. Once I removed the cable from the harddrive it was sharing with, I went back to warcraft III and sure enough.. the game went on.. lasted 60 seconds, then it crashed once more.
I have ran memtest86 like 10 times and it says my ram is fine, so we can rule that out.

Thanks in advance for any help!!

Onslaught

 

[sargeduck]

What's your power supply? If your're running a P4 3ghz with maby 2 hard drives and a couple optical drives, and you are only using a low wattage no name power supply, that would probably be your problem.

This is a very common problem as people often buy super systems and skimp on power.

 

[Onslaught]

480 watt antec

 

[coolsquirtle]

hmmm might be driver problems...... try reinstalling Windows

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[ufo_warviper]

Thats more than twice the power of the P.O.S. 230 Watt powersupply I have on one of my systems, the PSU id DEFINITELy ruled out.

My OS features preemptive multitasking, a fully interactive command line, & support for 640K of RAM!