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Subject: hmmm
Name: ludicrous
Date: 8/6/2002 3:10:01 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 138.67.48.22
In Reply to: Re: GF4 MX 440 freezing my system ! posted by Guilherme
Message:

the only other thing that comes readily to mind is a software driver interaction. When you play a game like Counterstrike, the system will be mostly relying on input/output via DirectX. However in normal windows stuff, there could be a weird interaction between -- to give one possible example -- the mouse driver and the video card.

Incidentally, do you have "Assign IRQ to VGA" enabled in the BIOS? If not, try enabling and see what happens.