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259134 2004-08-07 07:33:00 Hi there,

I seem to be having serious problem with DirectX 9 (i think) at the moment,
everytime i try to play any game my computer either freezes (the screen goes black and ntothing happens) or it simply restarts itself.

My graphics card is a Geforce FX5700 128MB Card
My processor is AMD Athlon XP 2200+
I have an Asus A7V600 Motherboard with 512MB of kingmax DDR400 RAM.

I have reformatted and reinstalled windows multiple times and have reinstalled DirectX 9 from the same disk everytime (the Nvidia disk that the graphics card came with) and it still doesnt seem to work.
tonnes101 (5987)
259135 2004-08-07 09:42:00 What version of Windows are you running?

If it is Win XP you can disable the restarting so that Windows gives you an error message that may help diagnose your problem . Press the Windows+Pause keys>Advanced tab>Startup & Recovery settings>remove the tick from Automatically restart .

Post any error message here if you need more help .
Susan B (19)
259136 2004-08-07 10:36:00 ive what you suggested and it no longer restarts but neither does it display any error message, the screen simply goes black and i cannot alt-ctrl-delete out of it. tonnes101 (5987)
259137 2004-08-07 11:21:00 for the latest release of dx 9.c

here (download.microsoft.com)


You can also get the latest video drivers from the nvidia site,chipset drivers from the mobo manufacturer and i would sugest running memtest86.
metla (154)
259138 2004-08-07 11:22:00 and to have a look at dx go start>run>dxdiag and run the tests. metla (154)
259139 2004-08-08 00:31:00 what games are you trying to play? tweak'e (174)
259140 2004-08-08 04:58:00 Hello there,

This is the problem (and the same guy) I was talking about ages ago.

It turned out to be the graphics card - the rest was fine.

Last thing we checked though :D
Growly (6)
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