I bought a computer some time around feburary it is an HP with an AMDK-2 500 with 64meg of ram (later another 64 meg stick was added). The motherboard inside is an Asus p5s-vm. This motherboard has what they call an onboard VGA card with 8 mb allocated from the system ram for video. Well while this is all good in theory it really was not worth a flip. So i went out and bought a new Voodoo3 2000 PCI card and installed it. I opened up the case and disabled the onboard VGA with the jumpers. I also downloaded the newest driver for the voodoo card, it is from July 1, 2000. The problem that i am having is while i am playing games the system locks up. I cannot do any endtasks or even get to the desktop. Just freezes. First it was just one particular game but then it started in other games. The only thing that i am able to do is a hard shutdown (Hold the power button 9 and that as everyone knows is very bad. One of the games i also downloaded an update for that was suppose to fix any problems with the voodoos and 3dfx cards. A few things i thought of but wanted to run by everyone first are I have rambooster program running from start up i have had this for sometime and has not caused any problems that was aware of before but could this program cause such problems? Also a few games i have used sense have wanted to analyze the computer due to changes in video properties. Should i reinstall the games or other programs to fix said problems. Or is a new windows install warrented(last resort i hope)? Or does an onboard vga card cause problems with installed vga cards? Or is it something simple i have not thought of.  Sorry about the length but wanted to be through with everything.

TIA

Bradley Marden
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