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Hey, I have been having some problems as of late with some games namely Americas Army and Alice, but now Warcraft 3 is acting up. I can play for awile maybe up to a half and hour but then all of a sudden the monitor just clicks off (the light goes orange like its alseep) the sound can still be heard but it is frozen and repeating whatever it has buffered. The only way out of this is to reset the computer. I have a 2.4ghz p4 with a Radeon 8500 128meg, 512megs of ram, running win2k pro. I have directx 8.1b and the catalyst 2.2 drivers. Any help would be appreceated as i have run out of options. Thanks

Thanks, Ill try that too soon as I have time school is always worst the first few weeks, then the teachers realise they have half of the quarter done way too fast and have to slow down. Ill get back to you guys after I try it.

Thanks for all the help guys Ill try some new drivers and might reinstall direct x and each of the games and see if those help, tell you how it went as soon as i can.

The system is water cooled and gets nice low temps, the ambient case temp is low as well(with my two 90mm blowholes and a 120 I would hope its low). My other computer is also running a radeon 8500 and it has higher temps across the board with no problems. I think I might go get a temp probe from radio shack or something and see what the video card is truly at, and no Im not overclocking 2.4 is enough for now and the radeon 8500 can hold its own. I guess if it is a problem with heat on the video card I could get a gpu water block or a crystal orb. oops almost forgot the power supply is 500watts and the voltages are quite stable so I doubt it the PS.

Hey- I just got the game American McGee's Alice this past weekend, but everytime I start playing the game, my screen goes black like it crashed but I can still hear sound playing. 8) It says that Alice isn't compatible with Win2k; however, it installed just fine on my other two computers and plays fine. I would really appreciate finding what the devil is going on with my other computer. I have a Radeon 8500 and Intel P4 2.4 [mobo = Soyo FireDragon]. I am using onboard sound, but so does my other computer which also runs a Soyo mobo and a Radeon. Any help would be warmly appreciated. Sincerely, Elizabeth