;) Well after much flustration I finally broke down and called the ATI tech service. After trying severall things he concluded that it was the card. I have mailed it back for replacement or repair. In the meantime I purchased a Radeon 9200 SE from Compusa. All games are working great. I do feel that there was probably a heat issue also. Is there a cooling device that is a PCI card that I could insert below the AGP slot.
Thanks for the suggestions and feel sure this has been resolved