Help Pleeeeeze

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Decided to treat myself to a top range system. But only one small and
annoying snag
It will run a 3D screensaver for about 1-4 minutes before freezing
solid! It does not freeze in normal operation.

The system is:-

MSI K7N2 Delta - ILSR Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP3200+ and AMD Fan (Retail Pack)
2 GB DDR Ram
2 x Serial ATA Hard Drives
GeForce FX5600 XT 256MB Graphics Card

Running XP Pro
Service Pack 1
DX 9.0
Updated Drivers for GeForce

Tried other graphics cards and it still does it! Nothing in the Event
Viewer either. Just can't figure it out.
Wondered what you clever guys thought.

TIA Jack

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On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 06:21:48 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
<p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote:

>A bad screensaver program, try another.

I have. It's any 3D screensaver.

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I've disabled everything in Services and Start Up, and it still does
it! Now I'm at a total loss.....


On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 08:45:07 -0500, "Jim Macklin"
<p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote:

>What other programs and services run when the screensaver
>comes on? I remember that a version 4 or 5 McAfee virus
>scan would start scanning whenever their screensaver was
>running [McAfee supplied some screensavewrs]. There could
>be some "priority" conflict as well as the obvious graphics
>card problem.
>You might try opening the task manager and tuning a lot off
>and then see if the screensaver will run. Turn things back
>on one at a time until you find the one or a combination
>that is causing the problem,.