Windows 2000 Keeps Freezing on Games, and on certain Websites

[Gregg]

I recently got a whole New Baseunit, with an AMD athlon 1.8Ghz
48 speed CD-rw
256Mb Ram
Windows 2000
40Gb Hard Drive 5400 rpm

The Games it Frooze on are Age of Mythology & and Empire Earth, it only freezes after it runs through all the videos and goes onto the main screen.

[bailey]

w200 is not the best format for gamming0 you might think about xp-home. not to say you may some other problem too

[KHT]

I agree w2000 is not geared towards gaming, more a work atmosphere.

I`m not familiar with the games you mentioned but are you able to skip through the intro scenes. I had a similar problem with Jane`s Combat Flight Simulator. I found that if I hit enter or clicked the mouse when the vid intros came up I was able to get to the main screen quicker and the program loaded. After that everything goes smooth.

[Gregg]

They are both Strategy games, yes you can skip the intros but it does not help, the computer still freezes

[Gregg]

I have also had the RAM changed and this still had no affect.

I have tried Reinstalling windows 2000 thinking it might have been a corrupt file.

I have also discovered while re-installing the Software, that it mentioned something about the Sound Card, and so was not tested on with microsoft something? I will find out exactly what it said when I get home!

[crjdriver]

Some thoughts you might try.
Check your temps after the computer locks up. [When you restart enter the bios and you can check the temp there. It should be under something like pc health or feqs and voltages.] If it is over say 65C, you have found the problem.
Have you upgraded to sp3? It seems to have fixed quite a few problems.
I see you are using an AMD chip with win2k, have you installed the registry fix for AMD / win2k? Here is a link to the MSKB article
http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US;Q270715&
I use a script to do this; if you want it let me know and I can e mail it to you; it’s very small 335 bytes.
Make sure that your drivers are all up to date.
By the way I use win2k for gaming [along with everything else] and have never had a problem.