yeah...tis working much better. The drivers I had were the most up-to-date and they were still causing (at least contributing) to my crashes. So, for me at least, moving to the aopen board is working much better. Not to bash the AC97 guys though (lots of love for ya)

Ok, seems things are working ok now.
I did a little investigating on my onboard sound and, yup AC97. So disabled that and put in an Aopen I had and once I got that up and running, I played D3 for about 1/2 an hour with no problems. Once I have a bit more time I think I'll be able to give it a good ...

Nope haven't overclocked anything. As for the install of XP, that's a long sordid story stemming from the original video card, which I think was bad. You see, when I had these problems (bsods of various flavors) with the old video card, I figured there must be a component that failed. So, I replaced ...

Ok, status report
Ran memtest86 for 16hrs+ no problems reported
I added the command line switches with no noticeable improvement over this specific problem
Did use driver cleaner 2 and followed the directions

Despite that, I just played D3 and it still generates the same problem only this time it ...

Well, both suggestions were helpful anyway. I recall once that my check engine light came on and all it was was an air-cleaner that was causing a fuel/air mixture problem. The owner's manual said that there was something wrong with the injectors! Anyway, just an illustration.

I checked the D3.exe ...

ok thanks for the tips I ran memtest for one hour just to make sure that I could got the iso burned correctly and to run at least one complete test. It didn't turn up any errors, but as I've seen elsewhere, you really do want to give memtests a while.
As to compatibilty mode I tried it in win2000 ...

reinstalled D3 but to no avail, same problem as before. This time D3 crashed but I was able to get back to the desktop but then I got a bsod and had to reset.
I think the bsod is an IRQ not less or equal but I'm not sure. I have the computer set to not restart on bsod so I can record them now.
Also ...

I also forgot to mention that I've got DirectX 9.0b, and my processor is an AMD Athalon XP 2600 AND that I did flash bios to the latest update.
I think I've got everything pertinent now!

I had forgotten how long this thing is, it really needs to be run through a debugger so I'm not sure how valuable it will be to anyone here. I'll post just the header and then the modules that are loaded perhaps that would be helpful. If anyone needs the full text file I'd be happy to e-mail it to ...

So D3 plays & looks great, but she just crashes all the time.
Here's the history: When I installed I immeditately patched it to 1.4 and ran it for about an hour. Then it froze and I restarted. After that it only played for like 10 minutes before the same thing. I was also getting BSODs every so ...