System crashing with Radeon 9550 256mb...

[CAD]

Hey guys im new here but im getting very agrevated with my situation.

I just recently purchased a Stealth Radeon 9550 256mb, so I can play BF2.
But now my system crashes as soon as I attempt to start playing, not only does it crash with BF2 but also with HL2. I tried everything I can think of. I deleted all existing drivers, tried to change my agp from 8x to 4x, and that just ended up worse I had to reformate and reinstall everything. After all that I thried playing BF2 and still same problem.

My system is a:
HP AMD Athlon 3200+ 2.2gigs
512mb of ram
and running Windows XP.

Im in a bad way right now please help me out before I give up and spend my money on a Geforce.

[CAD]

No one can help me?

[genie_wt]

hmm I used to get that problem occasionally with mine, but it seemed to stop when I downloaded new Mobo drivers. Might help you.

[icq3800846]

It would be the most sensible thing to do:-
1) Check BIOS for motherboard is up to date.
2) Check drivers for motherboard are up to date.
3) Check drivers for graphics card are up to date.
4) Check patches for games are up to date.

Do you get a BSOD? If so, what's the error message?

[0iD]

And turn off fastwrites, found this can help from time to time

[CAD]

Thank you for the responses.
One more question.
How do I check what mother board I have?
And how do I update?

Sorry im kinda of a Noob.

[0iD]

SiSoft Sandra, Belarc Advisor, Aida32 will all tell you what you need to know.

Linkys:
Aida32/Everest
Belarc Advisor
Sisoft Sandra

Failing that, just pop off the cover & take a look inside

[CAD]

Thank you, turing off fastwrites worked, BF 2 is soo sweet now.