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I think I may have figured it out (at least I hope so).

I ran dxdiag and went thru all the system files and checked for conflicts in DX. When I used the video troubleshooter I found an example that somewhat resembled my situation and followed it. It appears to have worked.

What I did was lower my hardware acceleration by one notch. Being that my system is so old, I figure the vidcard was trying to work faster than my CPU and the combination was crashing my machine. Only thing I can think of in terms of an explanation. If anyone has any better reason why this appears to be working, by all means, let me know. Thanks to all who offered ideas for me. I appreciate the support.

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In the last three weeks I have tried everything I can think of.

I've reinstalled XP several times...even found the latest build on a torrent site that has the SP2 integrated into it. Still does the same thing. C&C works fine...Freelancer works fine...GR reboots my system...I just don't get it.

I'm gonna try grabbing the latest drivers from Nvidia but the XP version I have is only a month old and has signed drivers built right in.

Here are my hardware resources Conflicts/Sharing from MSInfo...

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller

I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Microsoft Corporation)

IRQ 10 NEC PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller (B1)

IRQ 10 D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev.A)

Memory Address 0xD7000000-0xD7FFFFFF ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller

Memory Address 0xD7000000-0xD7FFFFFF NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Microsoft Corporation)

IRQ 11 NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Microsoft Corporation)

IRQ 11 NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller

Memory Address 0xCF400-0xEBFFF PCI bus

Memory Address 0xCF400-0xEBFFF System board

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller

Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Microsoft Corporation)

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB ALi M1541 PCI to AGP Controller

I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Microsoft Corporation)

Could my IRQ 11 be causing me trouble?

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OK...without going into great detail...I have a ######ty 450mhz machine with 376mb of Ram

I recently switched from a Radeon 7200 64mb card to an MSI vidcard with the NVIDIA GEFORCE FX5200-TDI128 DVI TV chipset.

Now when I start GR...I can mess around for a few minutes or so...change some settings, maybe play a game or two...but some times even when I do absolutely nothing...I see a flash (about 1/2 to 2 seconds of a blue screen of death (I thought XP Pro didn't have this anymore) that has some text on it...then my system completely reboots.

I haven't played GR for almost 3 weeks now because of this and I refuse to give up because I know others use this card with GR and have no problems.

HELP!!!

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well Ghost Recon doesnt have that good of graphics

What you seem to be forgetting herre is that GR is over two years old now. Engines have improved, graphics cards and 3D technologies have improved. For it's age and time...GR is still the cutting edge in graphical technology. GR2 (should it ever make it to PC) will undoubtedly be the same cutting edge technology. My guess is they're waiting to be able to develop a game that is compatible with the new 64bit technology (if not already developed). A lot of the newer games coming out, AA, BF1942, COD, etc...are too cartoonish in their graphics...no realism...and the freakin bunny hopping makes me crazy!!