Games Crash to Desktop within 10-50 Minutes. Basically, I've installed the Sims 2 with its expansion packs onto my system. The game crashes randomly to the desktop every 10 minutes or so. Usually when I have animations playing. But it crashes even when the...

to install Windows Vista first (with the plan to update the BIOS and all drivers afterwards), and everything starts out smoothly - I enter my region, my key, all that works, however when it asks what hard-drive I want to install Vista to I run into a big problem....

restarted computer, check temps, they were high, 67 idle, reseated heat sink, could not boot into vista, saw processor details not always coming up in post screen, did clean install of vista, life went on, started getting freezes, especially logmein, random...

good.. so I removed the disk put it in my pc.. found a million errors and then backed up her files and tried to reinstall vista again. The PC still won't start complaining it can't boot from the disk and the vista installer crashes as soon as it starts to...

to install XP 32 bit, but still no luck installing Vista 64 bit. Updated the hardware bios's i could and XP runs fine, but i need Vista installed and its not getting so far, before all HW Updates i crashed on Initial Vista Install, but now i can get past...

update express t'll it stops. Open internet explorer surf around go to yahoo.... crash.... open internet explorer go to yahoo.... crash.... Install one of my games run it for 10 minutes.... crash.... crash again, again, AND AGAIN!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!! Now...

place and try to install vista on his computer(he's got the same mobo). I have installed vista on my hard drive on my friends pc. It works on my pc now but it isn't stable. It crashes after few minutes of running ,especially when I'm trying to install any drivers...

to play this and install it on your computer? I don't play a game again after I beat it, seems like a waste of time when there's tons of new games I could be playing. Did you also not buy Vista because of activation? After I installed my new motherboard I had...

to just install the driver but even if you download just the driver it wants to install the Catalyst Control Center. So you are stuck between wanting to install the drivers for your video card or using the generic video driver that is stable and won't crash...