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revelcet:

No the computer is not blue screening at all, it simply freezes on the desktop, I have tried a couple of different power supplies and had the same result with all, not sure if my motherboard is "crappy" or not and since I dont have a spare not sure how to eliminate that possibility , I think it is an abit but im not sure, it was the only one I had with an agp slot. Is running the arcade vga card memory intensive? I have 128 meg of ram installed, thought that would be enough. I have two other mame cabs that have tvs but  when I found an old contra cab with a good monitor for 25 dollars, I thought I would give it a new home, its like stone soup, you start out buying one or two parts and then your committed to the build and 2 weeks later the wife wont speak to you and your broke, but you still need more parts.

Flinkly:

i haven't had a problem with my avga card yet, other than just working my computer to death with tasks...but thats my fault.  i've never had it just freeze up for no aparent reason...i don't know what could be causing it though, just that i don't have that problem.

jerryjanis:

The ArcadeVGA isn't memory intensive, but Windows XP sure is!  With only 128 megs of ram, Windows XP will be SLOW SLOW SLOW.  I've been happy with 256 megs of memory on machines that don't do a heck of a lot (Mame/older games only), but if you're trying to run very many things or any bigger games, you should have even more than that.

I find that even older, slow machines will run Windows XP decently as long as you have a 256-512 megs of ram.

revelcet:

I borrowed a computer today so I will test the crappy theroy, its one of the new alien ware gaming rigs, and I will try  512 m. of memory to see if that helps. thanks everyone for the help.

Craig:

For those interested, I have found that on all machines I've tested that about 128 MB RAM is used just starting up Windows XP, therefore another 128 or more is really essential.

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