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I purchased D3. Installed it, ran it off and on over 2 or 3 days,
everything was fine (more or less--a couple of times, Doom just exited
back to XP in the middle of a game with no explanation).

Today, however, every time I run it, all I get is a gray screen and a
locked up computer that requires a hard reboot. It happens after the
first small splash screen and my usual Zonealarm alert that Doom is
wanting access to my "Trusted Zone."

I haven't installed anything new, games, drivers or anything.

Any ideas?

Athlon 2400+
512mb RAM
Sapphire Radeon ATI 9600XP 128mb
Windows XP Pro SP2

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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:32:18 -0800, Nobody <nobody@home.com> wrote:

>I purchased D3. Installed it, ran it off and on over 2 or 3 days,
>everything was fine (more or less--a couple of times, Doom just exited
>back to XP in the middle of a game with no explanation).
>
>Today, however, every time I run it, all I get is a gray screen and a
>locked up computer that requires a hard reboot. It happens after the
>first small splash screen and my usual Zonealarm alert that Doom is
>wanting access to my "Trusted Zone."

How well does it work when System restore is activated? I've seen cases
where the operating system mysteriously has a problem without an explained
cause, but works as expected after a System restore.

(Don't worry, it can be undone without too much problem. Thus, it's not too
much of a risk factor.)

Other than that, I'd check some of the troubleshooting sites for Doom, or
for possible driver updates.

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Nobody wasted my time on 3/2/2005 10:32 PM with the following:
> I purchased D3. Installed it, ran it off and on over 2 or 3 days,
> everything was fine (more or less--a couple of times, Doom just exited
> back to XP in the middle of a game with no explanation).
>
> Today, however, every time I run it, all I get is a gray screen and a
> locked up computer that requires a hard reboot. It happens after the
> first small splash screen and my usual Zonealarm alert that Doom is
> wanting access to my "Trusted Zone."
>
> I haven't installed anything new, games, drivers or anything.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Athlon 2400+
> 512mb RAM
> Sapphire Radeon ATI 9600XP 128mb
> Windows XP Pro SP2

First and foremost, the advice I get out the most for ATI users is to
use OmegaDrive's omegadrivers:

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

These aren't dangerous drivers, in fact, they're based off of the latest
ATI Catalyst build, but tweaked to give more performance (there are many
benchmarks around, but I'm not going to get into that)

This may fix the problem with Doom3 mysteriously crashing to XP, and may
also fix the gray screen.

If that doesn't do it, try running Doom without ZoneAlarm on. If that
works, it's a ZoneAlarm problem.

Just curious, are you running in windowed mode by any chance?

How long are you letting the screen sit before rebooting?

--
-SnoopJeDi