Computer Crashes Sometimes

Heh, do you have a multimeter?

 

use to have one, I think i threw it out long ago

 

is it a name brand psu or a generic one.

Generic ones usually aren't built very well and are notorious for crapping out and causing problems hard to diagnose. You may want to replace it with a decent name brand psu. Even if it doesn't solve this problem, it will save you a lot of headaches down the track.

 

name brand

 

http://www.newegg.com/ProductSort/Category.asp?Category=32

 

Right then? runs fine without the vga driver installed,that leaves only 2 possibilities vga card is bad or somewhere along the line windows or driver dont agree with one and other,we have tried a modern driver no joy may be too advanced for the card and the original driver may be too old,but this points away from a driver issue it would be strange if two drivers seperated by years produced the same shutdown problem.

Try running this registry scrub program

http://www.pctools.com/registry-mechanic/download/

 

ive already cleaned out my registry using many registry programs

 

just wondering, my version of xp home has been activated 3 times now, what would happen if i tried to activate it a 4th time? Say that I upgraded my hardware and now it's asking o be activated once more?

 

There is no limitation on how many times you can activate Windows XP.

 

If you have your xp disk handy you could try this-

Insert your xp disk,go to run and type

sfc /scannow

then ok

It will scan and fix any broken windows xp files

 

ya I know that trick Rikky, I should try that as well

btw, I thought XP Home can only be activated 3 times?

 

weird, Ive been testing out diffrent version of my GPU driver, and each time I try out a new driver, the problem gets worse

 

try these modified dna drivers

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1154

If they dont work save your dinner money and buy a used gf2 mx,or swap your sandwiches for one

 

thanks, good news I found a ATI Radeon 7500 64mb GPU, anyone know if its better then nvidia geforce 4mx 420?

thanks in advance