Hello everyone, I just got my mobo a couple of weeks ago and I recently started to play some games on it, but every game I play it always crashes. I played Battle for Middle-earth, F.E.A.R., Quake4 and FarCry.

The errors I get are different for every game.

I would like some clarity about this cuz its driving me crazy. Is my mobo not compatible with my videocard or what?

These are the chipset drivers that I use:

Audio driver version 4.62 (WHQL)
Audio utility version 4.51
Ethernet NRM driver version 4.82 (WHQL)
SMBus driver version 4.50 (WHQL)
Memory controller driver version 4.40
GART driver version 4.40
Installer version 4.93
WinXP IDE driver version 4.46 (WHQL) with updated uninstaller files

I've tried a couple of things to resolve this but still no luck:

1) Latest ATI driver 5.11 and OmegaDrivers 2.6.75a
2) Turning off FastWrites off in the BIOS
3) Setting the AGP appeture to 64mb and then to 256
4) Playing games without the GART 4.40 driver
5) Playing games with the older GART 4.36 driver
6) Setting the system options in every game to the lowest settings

Im in Windows XP Pro SP2 with al of the critical and some recommended updates as of november 2005.

Any help would me much appreciated.
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DFI LanpartyUT nF3 250Gb (BIOS 6.00 PG 05/04/2005)
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0 GHz Clawhammer
2x Nanya Technologies 512 MB PC3200
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb AGP 8x
Hitachi Deskstar 120 GB - SATA
Plextor DVD+/-RW PX-708A - IDE
Standard PSU 300 Watt

If I had to guess I would say it is your RAM. I had some Nanya Ram a while back and I had the same problems. Ended up that one of the dimms was bad. If you have any spare ram laying around I would switch it out and then run your games and see what happens.

Hmmm, that be messed up. I'n gonna test it with memtest but Windows works just fine, its only the games that gives me trouble.

Makes sense. Most likely windows doesn't need as much ram as the games. I would guess that you have one bad dimm like I did.

Don't know if a memtest will work. I tested mine and it kept passing, but the problem finally went away after I switched the ram out.