Hi I hope someone can help, for the past year or so.  I have been playing Call of duty 2 on my PC with the following spec.

XP Home edition with service pk 2
AMD 2200 XP with 1024 DDR 400 ram  2 x 512
Asus GeForce FX5200 128MB

With no problems at all then in the last month the PC would re-start it’s self  during the game.  After awhile the PC would just re-start even if I wasn’t playing a game.   I tried TAKING having one stick of ram out at a time but there was no difference still re starting.  A friend of mine gave me a Hercules ATI Prophet 9600 pro 256 graphic card.  After I installed the card and tried to play the game.  The screen goes blank and that’s it.

Any suggestions please
 :-?Your computer could be overheating. After one of these restarts, try looking in the BIOS for your CPU and system temperature. You do this by pressing a key (usually delete) when restarting. Be CAREFUL not to change any settings in the BIOS.

When using the other graphics card, did you install the video drivers for it correctly?

PS it's itself not it's self  I'm able to play other games  It’s just when I load Call of duty game a message comes up saying that the system has changed since the last time.  Would you like the system to adjust it self or would you like to do it manually.  After that the screen goes blank I have to press (Ctrl+Alt+delete) and end the programme.  No way to know whats the problem - software/hardware.

You should try playing Call of Duty, because the sequel cannot play on ur system.. it will barely load on the minimal settings. The first Call of Duty looks very good and runs surprisingly well on ur PC.Your Friend is the real joker with you he has given that card to you becausemost ATI cards Dont Support
hardware T&L thats why you will never be able to run it even if you run Project IGI 2 on this game that game will also not run but you can do this reconfigure the card again with the game and uninstall the previous drivers of Nvidia completely and then try other wise get your card back Nvidia is best
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Your Friend is the real joker with you he has given that card to you becausemost ATI cards Dont Support
hardware T&L thats why you will never be able to run it even if you run Project IGI 2 on this game that game will also not run but you can do this reconfigure the card again with the game and uninstall the previous drivers of Nvidia completely and then try other wise get your card back Nvidia is best
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