Matt

hehe yea i do thanks a lot

when i play CS after about 1 minute it says i overflowed and kicked from server, anyone have any ideas?

because i live in england

well i overcame by other 1xxxxxxxx problems by changing pc, i installed windows xp on this one and now it wont let me activate, just says that it cant connect to the registration service

nope, i took some out though

rev i have 2x 256 mb SD RAM in, they are on the other side of the board to the processor, they are fine, ive tried them in a different machine, im starting to think that my hard drive is just buggered

i bought it in a shop, its the original home edition, ice only had problems with it since i upgraded from a duron 800 to athlon 1200 about 2 weeks ago

ive used every version down to the ones that came with the card, graphics seems to be fine, this is the main error i get now: PAGE_FAUT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA 0x00000050

drew, now in device manager i have IDE controllers, is that what im meant to have? cant remember if i had it before or not, i'll soon see when i crash :|

detonator makes it crash more often

it just happens at random times, it sometimes says pagefile error, sometime something to do with my gfx drivers

i already upgraded the bios to vers f9 , i'll post again when ive done all the stuff listed, tks for the help so far

athlon 1200 512 MB SD RAM 64 MB GE Force 2 Titanium SB Live Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 (mobo) this was in the manual: [u:a531480fc7]On Board IDE[/u:a531480fc7] An IDE controller on the AMD 756 PCI chipset provides blabla bla, is the AMD 756 bit the part im looking for? and also it doesnt show hard drive controller in device manager so i guess u r right (it shows CD rom controllers and floppy drive controllers) another thing is CS + AO (games) lock up after a while of playing with this fault... might help

ermmm i checked the western digital page and there is no hard drive drivers available to download

after 3 formats, 2 fresh installations and 1 upgrade... swapping of hardware and anything i can to get xp working... IT STILL CRASHES ! more page file errors but if anyone knows any supreme experts then this is the error code: 0x0000008e something to do with my pagefile again