The GeForce 5700le seems to be quite weak for games, but it should still work with UT2k4.

I don't know how hot is critical with graphic cards. My GeForce 9800GTX has 63°C on the desktop and speedfan says that would be hot, but I never encountered any problems.



Maybe it helps to reduce the graphical details. Especially the texture-resolution, as it needs much of your few 256 MB VRAM. Things that need more CPU-work can stay high, like physical detail.

You won't probably notice a difference when changing the world-detail, as almost none of the maps on Techcom support that feature.


At least my maps let you change the viewdistance using the fog-distance-slider in the settings, but only my maps.




Another quite common problem could be, that you have a defect RAM-block, if you have two for example.

A way to test that is, to take one out and start Windows only with one. If you encounter no problems after some time, then try the other one. If you still have no problems, like bluescreens, then everything seems to be alright.
Otherwise you have to replace it. RAM is quite cheap these days, so it won't hurt you.
But you need two identical RAM-blocks to run them in dual-channel-mode.

As Crusha said defect RAM could be the reason. I got similar general protection failure because of too overclocked memory.

I just started swapping about my RAM, then played all morning at full whack and guess what?
NO CRASH!!
Thank You all very much for the help and advice regarding my pc.
This Clan/Server rocks!
Let us Play!!

When I first read about the dreaded winXP blue screens showing the "IRQ not equal or less..." message, my mind went immediately to either a serious driver or hardware issue as it's a telltale sign of such probs, but I'm glad than in the end a bit of cleaning up and reshuffling your RAM sticks did it for ya - live to frag another day . Do pay some mind to the overall cooling setup of your box in the longterm though (a proper fan in the front to drive airflow in and another one in the back to lead it out should do), as it could be the source of your problems from what I'm gathering.

Cooling - is life for PC I got 6 120mm silent fans in my case and there are 2 more empty slots for them

6?! Damn, man! I assume you got 'em in a full tower case instead of a mini-ATX?

6 fans?
lol moving a lot of air M-Knell!!
If I'm adding more fans where can I get power from?
Do I just splice them into existing sockets?

I guess that the slots from where the fans get the power are on the motherboard, so you would have to look if your MoBo has still enough slots free (I could be wrong and those are only the slots for the temperature-testers, which send the informations, so that you can see how hot it is).

But by increasing the number of fans, you might need a new PSU. Today are 550W standard and enough for a high-end videocard, soundcard, processor, mobo and the fans, but if you have less, then it might be a problem.
However you shouldn't need more than 600W, unless you have a second videocard.

Almost every motherboard has two power slots for the tower fans, aptly marked SYSFAN1 and SYSFAN2 in the manual and on the board itself; they use the (idiotproof) grooved 3-pin connectors and provide 12V DC I believe as well as rev speed and temp info. If you're talking about buying and adding new fans though, you'll find that most also sport an additional connector for the 4-pin type molex power input that PSUs supply, so either way you should be pretty covered as far as your choices for powering the fans go. Beyond that, it's pretty much as crusha described it, a matter of having enough juice coming from the PSU in the first place to take care of everything. Personally, I have a 650W one back at my home PC, but anything above 500W should provide sufficient power for most average comps and uses.

pegasus_ wrote:
6?! Damn, man! I assume you got 'em in a full tower case instead of a mini-ATX?

Not full-tower, but of coz not miniATX. Its a CoolerMaster 690. Very comfortable and well-thought-out case without PSU of course.

http://www.coolermaster.nl/share/cm690-1.jpg
http://www.hardwarelogic.com/articles/reviews/case/Cooler_Master_CM_690/Cooler_Master_CM_690_Case_Left_Interior.jpg

Fans connected to MB and to PSU. Talking about PSU, actualy total PSU power isnt very important. 12v PSU power lines mean. You can have bad 800W PSU that could total sux. I have Seasonic 550W with rather powerful system and no problems:)