Ok I have a major problem here, I am a 3d graphics animator and my computer seems to not like me doing this. Now with that said it seems my computer just hates 3d all together. As soon as I start up any sort of 3d video it will completely lock up. In fact I am lucky if the VPU recover will even kick in to return it to windows. I've found that I have to make it screw up right away in order to use it for anything else. And even then the 3d wont work PROPERLY or at all.

Also on top of that it seems my motherboard doesn’t like to read the ide cables too much. Major problem if your trying to well use a cd/dvd rom or even your hard DRIVES. Now I know I have to replace my motherboard entirely. But I want to know if that is the only THING broke on this POS.

In the past this computer has spited me ever since I started building it. Yes I have checked to see if each RAM spot works, I have also have tried both pci-express slots. The inside is completely cool everything inside is cold, that is except for the heat sink, but that of course should be HOT..

Also if anyone knows of what type of motherboard I should buy I would love your tips. I want something that has four RAM spots, dual video card option, and also the four IDE option. All the new raid options are cool and all but I am trying to upgrade as little as possible right now.


I don’t know if I've given enough information but at this point I'm stumped.

Intel Pentium 4
cpu 3.20 Ghz
3 Gigs of RAM

Service pack 2
Windows XP
2 western digital hard drives
one 320 the other 160
I have the 320 partitioned so 30 gigs is for the operating system
direct x9


motherboard
asus p5nd2 - sli deluxe

ati video card
all in wonder pro x600


I have also gone through all of the websites to pretty much try each version of their drivers but nothing works. Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.
I'd test the RAM before I did anything else on that machine.
http://www.memtest86.com/I did, all three sticks work. They also work on this computer.I'd bet it was DX. it's a horribly unstable ENGINE where anything can disrupt it.