> It could be my videocard drivers because my Radeon fried and I'm using the > motherboard's crappy integrated Nvidia one for now. It's weird though because it > works great with everything except MAME. I changed no settings since HLSL came into > play so I'm stumped. It's disabled in MAMEUI. I even tried regular MAME and MAME32 > Plus and they all crash my OS
I read another post recently about MAME crashing with the latest Nvidia drivers. I believe the person had to go back a version or two in order to get a stable MAME setup. Give it a try and see if it helps.