First post, by 9646gt
The build=
HP OEM Asus A7V8X-LA Motherboard VIA Km400A/VT8237
Sempron 3000+ CPU
1.2GB DDR333 RAM
Aopen Yamaha YMF744 Sound Card
ATI/Dell Radeon 9700 TX (stock 263/263 clocks and I assume stock BIOS) Catalyst 10.2 Drivers
DirectX 9.0c as installed by default with SP3
Antec 380W Eather Watt ATX PSU 80Plus certified
Maxtor 200GB IDE HDD
Windows XP SP3 with no other updates
I threw this build together the other night as a lower end XP gaming machine. First thing I try to do is establish some baseline benchmarks before overclocking the video card. I tried both 3DMark 2001SE and 2003 and both crash part of the way through demos or benchmarks at default settings. In SmartGart of Catalyst Fast Writes is disabled by default and I tried lowering AGP speed to 4X and still getting crashes. Absolutely no Information is given and it does not blue screen just hard reboots and when XP starts again it says that There was a critical error. Any ideas where to go with trouble shooting this?