[Cerek the Barbaric]

It started several weeks ago when my home PC would FREEZE while playing BGII. I took it to the shop and upgraded almost every component (bigger HD, faster processor, etc). But after getting the machine back, I STILL have the same problem. The machine will suddenly freeze, then crash and completely reboot. While this usually happens when I'm trying to play BGII, it also occures at other times.

It has crashed while I was trying to connect to the internet. It has even crashed and rebooted as soon as the desktop appeared immediately after it had just crashed and rebooted! I have asked for help in the BGII forum, and I've un-installed all the Mods I have in the game, then re-installed them in a specific order. I've UN-installed certain components that seem to be causing a problem, yet the PC continues to crash and reboot on a regular basis.

I've downloaded the latest version of DirectX (9b) and I even took it BACK to the PC shop today. They also thought it was a problem of software incompatability, but didn't have a chance to actually look at it today. I decided to just bring it home and try a few more things myself before taking it back. I just spent a substantial amount of money on the various upgrades and I'm really not too thrilled with the idea of spending any more money with them since their "improvements" did nothing to help the original problem.

So now I'm coming to G.D. to see if anybody HERE has any suggestions. One thing I've noticed is that my BGII games that are still in Chateau Irenicus seem to cause much less problems than those that I've played further into the game. But I also had the same problem when I installed Divine Divinity and tried to play it the first few times. I downloaded the official patch for DD and that seems to have helped - although I haven't played the game very much since downloading the patch.

So - again - the problem doesn't seem to be exclusive to BGII.

Any help, ideas, suggestions, tips, or advice wuld be greatly appreciated.