Kyo Otaku

Sorry to keep bothering everybody, but It occured to me that when I posted my second update to my first forum topic, I raised another. After looking at my motherboard's box, I realized that a few things on my system may be conflicting with eachother. However, I have no professional computer training, and very little hardware knowledge to correctly diagonose my problem. When looking at the box, I noticed that my motherboard has a 266MHz system bus. Does that indicate that my bus speed is 2x? Also, on the front of the box, it says it supports DDR SDRAM of 64/128 bits, but the manual contained a configuration for the two 256 sticks that I'm actually running in it. It came witha nVidia GeForce2 integrated GPU, but as far as I know the computer is using the GeForce FX 5700 Ultra I installed during January of this year. Looking at these things, I have three main questions: My computer is only 2x, but the card I'm using requires 4x or 8x, so is that my main problem? The RAM I'm using isn't listed on the front of the box but has a configuration chart in the manual, does that mean that it is ok to use it? Is the old GPU somehow disrupting my new AGP slot card? Thanks again for reading, and please post a reply if you have an answer to any of these three questions.

The Problem, in response to your response, Sampson, is that whenever I try to run a game on my computer, it will indeed play for a little while, but then it will catch itself in a loop and default to the error report. It ends in appcompat.txt, if that helps you help me in any way. I tried reinstalls of the games, but every single game installed doesn't work properly. Also, this problem only surfaced within the last month, well after I had made any modifications to my system other than windows updates. Could those somehow make EVERY game I have crash? Oh also, every once in a while the computer shuts itself into an immediate restart. The error file is something along the lines of Anthony~1\LOCALS~1\Minidump and some other stuff, but this happens very rarely. Thanks for all your help Sampson!

Oh, one more thing: These are the hardware parts I use: MSI Mainboard K7N420 Pro Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (By Verto) Two 256 MB sticks of DDR SDRAM A 160 GB Hard Drive 52x Max CD Rom Drive Volcano 6cu CPU Fan I run on windows XP Home Edition.

Thanks Sampson. After looking at your reply, I took out the motherboard's manual again to look through that before I tried to touch BIOS. After reading the AGP Specs, I discovered that my AGP Slot supports AGP 2.0 2x/4x. Also, after trying to remove the nvidia drivers, I noticed that my new graphics card is indeed the one that the computer is using. However, my question about the memory still stands. The manual says that its maximum memory is up to 1.5GB, and that it supports 128 bit system memory, but it says nothing about 256 cards, which I am currently running in it. The system recognizes that there is 512 MB RAM active on the computer, so I shouldn't have anything to worry about right?

After viewing several postings on this website to try to solve my appcompat.txt problem, I have learned how to delete it. However, even after a disk cleanup, defrag, and cold restart, the same error message pops up anytime I try to play any of my games. Most of my games are fairly new, examples include neverwinter nights, warcraft III, Spellforce, and Unreal Tournament 2004. All of these programs, after about a half hour to 45 minutes of play, will start looping the audio or visual screen currently active for about 30 seconds, and then the error report message pops up. When this occurs, appcompat.txt saves itself in a new folder under the path it specifies. I noticed this problem about 2 weeks ago. Some people attribute it to directX, others windows update, which I do use, and some attribute it to adware. I've run Norton Antivirus 2002 with full updates to that program, and every option says that the computer is totally clean. I know that there are many other people out there having this problem, and if anyone knows an exact solution, please reply to this post or email me. Note: Although this is categorized under windows 2000 or 4.0 or whatever, I'm running Windows XP home edition

Sorry to keep mentioning things about myself, but I figured that including my system components might reveal why I'm having appcompat problems. I am running on: AMD Athlon 1.47 Ghz processor MSI Mainboard K7N420 Pro, 266 Mhz System Bus 2 256 DDR SDRAM Sticks Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (Verto) 160 Gb Hard Drive 52x Max CD Rom Drive I have a Volcano 6cu processor fan I don't know what kind of power supply fan I have. I'm using Windows XP Home Edition that would come with a new Dell PC during 2002. I have a generic MSI Tower, though I doubt that matters. If this brings any light to me recieving appcompat problems, please reply.

Originally posted by Kyo Otaku: Quote: After viewing several postings on this website to try to solve my appcompat.txt problem, I have learned how to delete it. However, even after a disk cleanup, defrag, and cold restart, the same error message pops up anytime I try to play any of my games. Most of my games are fairly new, examples include neverwinter nights, warcraft III, Spellforce, and Unreal Tournament 2004. All of these programs, after about a half hour to 45 minutes of play, will start looping the audio or visual screen currently active for about 30 seconds, and then the error report message pops up. When this occurs, appcompat.txt saves itself in a new folder under the path it specifies. I noticed this problem about 2 weeks ago. Some people attribute it to directX, others windows update, which I do use, and some attribute it to adware. I've run Norton Antivirus 2002 with full updates to that program, and every option says that the computer is totally clean. I know that there are many other people out there having this problem, and if anyone knows an exact solution, please reply to this post or email me. Don't Call Me Kyo Kyo !!! Fruit's Basket