mcorey

I have a Dell I8000 notebook with W2K, 512MB of memory with an ATI 32MB video card. I installed the Sims Livin Large and about a halh hour into the game it sets my display to either 800x600 or 640x480 and crashes the system. Crtl-Alt-Del won't even bring up the taxk bar, I can't get to the start bar. I have to power down. Has anyone expereinced this problem? Some other things, people who use this did they install on a FAT32 partition or an NTFS partition? Which is better? Lastly, did they install as administrator or as a power user? Thanks, Michael

I definetly have the lastest patches and what I can tell from the Dell site I have the lastest video drivers. Do you have any other clues? It works fine on my desktop PC, but it has problems on my laptop. thanks. Michael

I'm hoping that someone can help me when I play Madden 2001 and The Sims in certain situations I get the Blue Screen on my Windows 2000 machine. The certain situation is this: 1. I log in as admin to play games (this is the only way I can install/play games on Windows 2000) 2. I place the CD in the drive. The autorun of the CD begins 3. The game menu pops up I select play and after a few minutes the game crashes. Now, when I reboot and log back in as admin (remember the CD is stil in the drive) I select the game from Windows Program menu (instead of the autorun of the CD), the game(s) work fine. Has anyone expereinced this? Can someone give me a solution? The blue screen error is DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_EQUAL. Thanks, Michael