help needed guys

[hansraj]

guys... help please......
the prob is all is working fine except for the gaming part. Iam not able to play age of mythology or empire earth II and game gets interrupted in between ..about 2-3 mins of starting with a error message saying that "age of mythology has encountered error" and for empire earth it says "debug".
the video drivers earlier were working fine but this prob has started suddenly.
i even tried installing these games for the other booting os, win 98 but iam facing same prob.
iam suspecting my processor .... can it be faulty or anyone there who can tell me where or what the prob is????

BIOS Type: American Megatrends
BIOS ID: 62-0627-001131-00101111-040201-VIA_P6-P4VMM2
OEM Sign-On: KOB P4M266 NDFSMx Release 06/27/2002
Chipset: VIA 82C3148 rev 0
Superio: ITE 8705/SiS 950 rev 2 found at port 2Eh
OS: WinXP
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Processor 1700 Mhz MAX: 3000 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 256K
Memory Installed: 768 MB
Memory Maximum: 4096 MB
Memory Slot 01: 512 MB
Memory Slot 02: 256 MB
Memory Slot 03: 0 MB
Memory Slot 04: 0 MB [/img]

[geekysage]

Take the RAM chips out of their slots and reseat them securely. Do the same for HDD cables.

If you still get the error, remove one RAM chip (512 or 256) from the motherboard and boot the system. Run the game. If you still get the error(s), remove the RAM chip currently installed and reseat the old one. Run the game again. This would help figure out if one of your comp's memory chip is broken. Also, defrag your hard disk and clear out temp files using the windows disk cleaner (go to hard disk properties, click on disk cleanup button beside the pie chart.)

This is the way i normally troubleshoot. Let me know if it solves the problem.

[hansraj]

i have done this checking of ram modules one by one already... i even ran the memtest to check if any of the modules was giving the prob... but ram seems to be ok.... how can defrag solve the prob, i have doubts but that too i keep doing regularly. well with windows i didnt require to defrag as i had to re-format and reinstall but this time its more than 6 months and i have defraged too... but still no joy

[::cyborg::]

i think u try to updat the game with the latest patch