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Thanks for your suggestion, Selden, but wouldn't faulty chips cause issues with other software as well? The only two apps I have that bring my system to its knees are Celestia and a 3D game for kids that relies on Direct X. Both of these apps run seamlessly and for hours on exactly the same computer...

Thanks, guest jo. I just upgraded to 256 MBytes and to the latest ATI driver. It runs more stable now, but still sooner or later (= within three minutes, not anymore within ten seconds), I get the blue screen. Under Windows ME, it runs fine, also with the educational packs and high res textures inst...

Reading the FAQ is a good thing, but it won't necessarily help. I now have an ATI 9600 graphics card, and I did not succeed in running Celestia in a stable way on Windows XP. I am dual booting this system with Windows Millenium and guess what: Celestia works flawlessly on Windows ME. On another note...