Should I reinstall XP cos since I replaced my gfx card it keeps saying it can't run a program cos of an invalid address (then gives me one in hex) and also keeps lcoking up if I'm running stuff for too long. Also take the piss to start up...I think it's been installed for about a month now.....should I reinstall??????

drivers up to date?

You may have to manually address your IRQ address for your video card to work. In this way, windows can communicate w/your video card. You can input what IRQ address to use for your video card under the device manager for your video card. That should probably fix that problem... hopefully.

Maybe a lack of system resources is the cause of the freezing up all the time.

And I don't think reinstalling Windows XP will help. I highly doubt it at least.

Maybe you just have a lot of stuff starting up in the background when Windows starts... try turning some of that stuff off, or just altogether removing the stuff you don't need.

If it doesn't work... meh. Least I tried.

would have thought the irq address is working properly as windows does actually load up. but lack of resources sounds the best theory unless its his drivers out of date.
judging by his desktop the rest of the pc is probably full of shite too so i'd recommend a clear out of anything u dont want that will load up on boot mainly. or any other cack too.

my drivers are the latest....I don't just get it from games.....nearly all my resource hogging apps have done it (IE, WinDVD, Games) but only randomly....I dunno...I've had problems before when I've changed gfx card w/out reinstalling Windows.....I dunno...but changing the GFX card deffintaley buggered up Windows 98....I rarely use it so I dont care

edit: Don't mess about with my posts whoever thinks nut is a funny word to add in randomly......

did you unistall the previous one before you put the new one in?

yep, I reinstaled windows yesterday nad some things are working better than before....that fuckuing error keeps comuing up though...but not as much

you could ask at annoyances.org
they always have the answers

I know this probably won't help you at all and I would just be flamed for this if I wasn't admin but you could always just get a mac

<!--QuoteBegin-Tha Masster+Feb 9 2004, 08:44 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Tha Masster @ Feb 9 2004, 08:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I know this probably won't help you at all and I would just be flamed for this if I wasn't admin but you could always just get a mac [/quote]
I'm surprised that I turned you over to the dark side

<!--QuoteBegin-Tha Masster+Feb 10 2004, 03:44 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Tha Masster @ Feb 10 2004, 03:44 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I know this probably won't help you at all and I would just be flamed for this if I wasn't admin but you could always just get a mac [/quote]
....I hate you.......well Macs ain't that good either...well emacs anyway...we were using them for imaging in photography and they crash constantley......even now we've put 256MB ram in them.....they were a waste of money....so I ain't gonna get one untill I have cash for a Power PC......but that's not gonna be for a looong time.....well I can always dream.....damn you.....

eMacs are old......................

yep but my college's technician is a cheap bastard so won't buy Imacs unless they're made to.....and my idiot photography teacher's new nothing about macs so said nothing wqhen he bought the shitty ones......