16-09-2002 22:06									#1
	Plz Help 2 Increase Your PM Length

Let's start this again..

Op's i posted in the wrong board ( slap my wrist )
As i hang my head in shame and admit that i'm a newbie to the forms and discussion boards.

As i shake the dust off and climb back into my chair lets hope i can to better next time.

As far as the game it still wouldn't run. So here's what ive done...

As i mentioned the game played fine in my other box.

Same os Window XP Pro
Radeon 8500
SB Adugiy Gamer

Things that i changed

MB asus P4t533
Intel 2.4 P4
Memory 4200 32 bit Rbus 512 MB

I've formated the drive and reloaded Win Xp
loaded Xp updates
Loaded ATI's lastest drvs as of firday 13 ( bad omen )
Loaded the lastest SB Drv

Reloaded Civ3
then loaded patch 1.29f

Ran for about 8 mins and crashed...no error that i could see just reboots back to xp start.

I called the help line 30 mins latter was told it was a strange problem try calling ati....

Help

	16-09-2002 22:37									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Really strange.

Does it do so every time?

	16-09-2002 22:44									#3
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

If XP is rebooting that sounds like a hardware problem.

XP normaly can end a rogue program without the whole system crashing to a reboot. You may have a bad memory module. You may be overheating.

Are you overclocking?

Do you have the latest drivers and bios for your motherboard?

They can be found here I think based on the motherboard number you gave. Be sure its the right one there is a variant the ASUS P4T533-C .

http://download.asus.com.tw/mb_dl_m...=15&l3=11&mid=1

The C model drivers and bios are on this page

http://download.asus.com.tw/mb_dl_m...2=15&l3=5&mid=3

Try some other programs that are processor intensive. Try a benchmark routine and see if it can run for a while. Both a CPU intensive benchmark and a Video bench.