I be BOOTED

[whos-your-daddy]

I need help, a lot of pepole are getting booted back to the desktop during play online. They say its a linksys problem. Makes sense, Im hooked up to linksys and cable too and I get booted off tribes, Giants, and others but it happens offline as well. Ive tryed 98,2000 Ive replaced my computer with no luck. Now I installed xp and Im really mess up now. Ive been fighting this desease for two long years. PLease help me your my only hope.

[Vesuvius]

This may or may not help you. When I had "boot to desktop" problems it ended up being 2 things. One a bad stick of RAM that would sometimes work properly and sometimes fail on me. The other being an IRQ conflict which was solved by leaving the first PCI slot underneath my AGP slot open, moving my soundcard to the bottom most PCI slot and going into the OS's "device manager" and making sure there were no IRQ conflicts. Three most important are the video card, the sound card and the NIC card or modem. Basically many times an IRQ conflict that involves the NIC card won't be noticed until you try to play games online where the sound, video and NIC are proccessing interupt requests.

[whos-your-daddy]

Ill buy some new ram tonight and try on thursday. Thanks for the Quick reply

[aagiants]

u dont have to buy new ram, just take one of them ou, if u have 2 and try. I had linksys and had a similar prob, with red alert 2. But that was a driver prob with game.
U can try to get the most up-2-d8 drivers on linksys site. Make sure there aint driver conflicts. U might wanna try making the linksys on another PCI slot. If this reaally bugs you, and the Ram aint the prob, get another NIC, they aint that expensive

[kmcodyntn]

My problem turned out to be old video drivers, no more crashing to desktop!!!!!
KC............:D

[MartialArtist12]

Router/Switch/Hub gaming problems usually show lag or have wierd graphics when playing online while you don't have them playing offline. Video card problems may account for your crashing to the desktop. But to be sure, make sure you have the latest firmware.-