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3/30/2008 3:04:29 PM EDT
Ok I have a HP Pavilion a100y  with an Intel Celeron CPU 2.67 GHZ and 504 MB of Ram
It had a Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV/ Graphics Control and it has a TSST CorpCD-R/RW TS-H292A CD-Drive.  My monitor is a Dell 24" Flat Panel LCD HD .

The problem is I was trying to play Lord Of The Rings Battle For Middle Earth II the games system requirements are

OS: Windows XP

CPU: 1.6 GHZ or faster

Ram: 256 MB or more

DiskDrive: 8X or Faster

Hard Drive: 6.0 GB or more of free Space

Video: Direct X 9.0c or compatible

SOund: Same as above

The game would load and let me do many functions on the game like watch the trailers and build your own charcaters, but would crash when you tried to load an actual game.  It would load to 97% pause and right before the map came up it would go to back to my desktop dropping the game.

Geek Squad at Best Buy installed a BFG Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 6200 oc and now I can play the game but mid way through it will crash and it goes all the way back like it restarted my computer everything freezes no movement no sound, then sound returns and a second later it goes black.  Any Ideas?
3/30/2008 3:55:46 PM EDT
[#1]
*leans against a fence, stares apathetically at you, chews a blade of grass*


does it do this for anything else?
3/30/2008 4:17:00 PM EDT
[#2]
NO only for this game
3/30/2008 4:19:15 PM EDT
[#3]
any patches available for the game??

have you installed them ?
3/30/2008 5:02:10 PM EDT
[#4]
I am pretty sure there are patches available I have not installed any of them
3/30/2008 6:28:21 PM EDT
[#5]
hmm.. might be semi-bad hardware....
I DON"T like the fact the mfg, BFG, sells the card as overclocked.  maybe it is a marketing gimick.

http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm
try the demo version of the testing software, be sure to stress est the 3D.

make sure your internal cables are snug fitting.
3/30/2008 6:30:52 PM EDT
[#6]
over clocked?
3/31/2008 3:40:31 PM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
over clocked?[/quote

Like red-lined.

Windows sitting idle won't push a system hard enough to expose subtle flaws, but a 3D game will.