after hearing Ultranix's incredible feat of running live04 with his celeron433,8mb ati card.... i decided to give my comp a try again~~
all morning i was cleaning out dust from my comp, reseating the ram, installed another fan........... used detonator R.i.p. to clean out the old drivers and installed the latest detonator drivers.............
i was so hopeful when i reinstalled the game.... the patch....
and then........... CRASH!!!!!

(at the select your favourite team screen)~
i decided to try again after several reboots and i got through the select your favourite team screen, and i could see marco jaric

dribbling in the background.... so i thought the game finally works
then i went to individual practice... select player... and

~~
the player portrait (vince carter) was transparent and before i knew it... the game already crashed -_-"
anyways... my p.o.s. comp: Duron 940mhz, 256mb sd ram, 32mb tnt2 -_- win xp pro with sp1....... direct x 9.0b....
anyone got any idea what else i could try? and no i don't have money for upgrades --_--