@iz atx airflow is crap, btx tower have a usefull airflow. i use atx airflow for heating my room up if its to cold and btw i dont got pets so no problem there.

@topix
what piece?

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Raven, you have nvidia card?

nope i have a radeon 9200 se , really crap one, in my next pc there will be a 7600 gs silent from asus

k hardcore informations.
mouse still dont work right, pc crashes after ca.15 minutes of quake3

O/S = win98 (already reinstalled, didnt fixed it)
mouse = rapter-gaming m2 (actually im used to this one and wont change until its broken) second mouse works without crash, but its so crap that i cant even play with it good. idk tested my m2 already and said it works perfekt on his pc (but he got also an m2)
gfx = radeon 9200 se (reinstalled drivers/already tried my backup gfx geforce 2 mx still doesnt fixed it)
cpu = athlon xp 1600+
ram 512 mb ddr 266
sound = creative soundblaster pci 128bit, works perfekt

all other parts of pc are working perfekt, too. i already reinstalled all paks and quake3.exe still problem isnt fixed, i dont have any idea left what might causes it

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Old mainboard?

i use this mainboard since i have the pc , never had a problem with it.