I have an ASUS M3N-HT Deluxe / HDMI motherboard with an AMD 9600 AM2+ chip. Something weird is going on. When I'm playing Oblivion (and only this game), a very video and system intensive game, my system (running XP) will intermittently lock up. The screen will go black and be totally unresponsive. When I pull the plug, wait 30 secs or so, plug it in and restart, I get a message telling my my BIOS has lost its settings. I can go into setup, just save & exit, then the system will boot as normal. Recently, it wouldn't boot up at all. It powers up but nothing appears on the screen. I striped my system down to just the video card (and put a different video card in it). Nothing. I then pulled the motherboard battery and put it back in. The system booted up fine. Of course I had to reset everything in setup, but it's been fine, though I haven't played the game.
I ran a memory checker, and everything was fine. I don't know if this makes any difference, but I recently had a power supply problem, a rather weird one that affected the sound card, which I removed and used the built-in one. Same problem.
The new power supply is fine, the sound card is working fine.
Any ideas? I love my game and don't want to stop playing it!
I ran a memory checker, and everything was fine. I don't know if this makes any difference, but I recently had a power supply problem, a rather weird one that affected the sound card, which I removed and used the built-in one. Same problem.
The new power supply is fine, the sound card is working fine.
Any ideas? I love my game and don't want to stop playing it!
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