First post, by mzry
Hi all,
I am at my wits end with this system and I am almost out of all ideas. I recently had this thread about Deus Ex crashing on save: Deus Ex - crash on save?
I ended up buying another TUSL2-C motherboard, this time one made in Taiwan, the Deus Ex crashes seemed to go away. I thought this problem was solved. I then wanted to play some 'American McGees Alice' and noticed, once again, it would 'randomly' but often crash on save. Often during level transitions where you enter a new level and the game auto-saves, the behavior of the crash is: a full lock of the system (not a bsod) with screeching audio.
Besides all of the things I'd already tried in the Deus-Ex thread, I tried a couple of other things:
* Removed my Adaptec SCSI 2940-UW card
* Re-installed system on a Sandisk CF card with IDE adaptor
Running entirely off IDE and CF seemed to help at first, but soon the problems were back. I then suspected the IDE cable (one of those possibly crappy 'round' cables) so I:
* Replaced crappy round IDE cable with high-quality Promise ultra-ata100 cable.
Still problems persisted, I then tried:
* Moved the V5 5500 into a different PCI slot
* Moved the Creative Xfi to a different PCI slot
* Put different memory in the system
(Please see the Deus ex thread for all the other countless things I tried)
Also note: I *did* try a completely different sound card, one with no directx acceleration and the system still was unstable.
I am now completely out of ideas, I've pretty much changed out the entire system. The only thing left that could possibly be at fault could be the graphics card itself? But it's basically brand-new condition, barely used & has been re-capped entirely. I don't think the nature of how the system crashes seems to be how a 3d card might crash. I know that I have previously swapped the PSU out and still had issues, but this was on the old motherboard, so perhaps it's worth me doing again.
Can anyone recommend a modern ATX which is suitable for an older system like this? Thanks
Any other ideas much appreciated.