"Conor" wrote in message
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In article , Mark Goddard says...
Is anyone else out here having lockups/VPU recovery errors, about 10- 15
mins into the game? I've tried updating drivers for the 9700pro (cat 4.9)
via chipset drivers, soundblaster drivers, even turned off fast writes
and
changed the AGP ap size to 32mb. The support website for doom suggested
changing the desktop res to 800 x 600 32 bit colour i've done this and
turned off antivirus etc and all its done is make the game run a little
longer without crashing. Help is there anything else i can do. I've even
thought of upgrading to to an nvidia card (don't want to rather wait
until i
get a new mb with pci x and get one of the new radeons).
Please help
It could be that my 550 watt psu failed and i'm using a 300 watt one? or
over heating?

Athlon xp 2.4+ (not overclocked)
Msi kt400 MB
1 GB ram
Soundblaster audigy player
Shappire 9700pro (cat 4.9, didn't work with others either)

You're trying to run that lot off a 300W PSU? Madness.


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Conor

Do gooders are your most dangerous enemies. Never turn your back on the
devious *******s.

Oh and err you've got a creative soundcard ..... they make those in hell you
know! ;o)

As for the PSU I'm running more than that (XP2800+, 9700, 2 HDD's, 2 Op.
Drives 6 fans, TV Card, 1 GB RAM RAM) without problems on an Antec TruPower
330 Watt PSU, remember wattage isn't everything *quality* is very important
as well ...