GWX 1.03 sends me into reboot

[Brag]

Yesterday I installed GWX 1.03, it ran fine.

Today, I tried to load. After the nicht so lange her line vanished, about the moment the Zentralle screen should appear, there is a quick whining noise and computer goes into reboot. After reboot, the computer recovered from serious error appears.

I've ran crap cleaner, defragged. Same thing happened.
I have 826 Ram available, use Nvidia 5700 and have 65% of disk space free.

SHIII and GWX only

Does anyone have any ideas?

[johnno74]

Unfortunately a hard crash like that isn't SH3's fault, its either bad drivers or bad hardware.

Can you open the windows event log, and paste in the details of the serious error? There is a code in there that will give you some clues as to what went bang.

Most likely either video card drivers, bad ram, or overheating... in that order of likelyhood.

Try some new drivers (maybe a version or two older, more likely to be slower but more stable).

If that doesn't work, clean dust from your heatsink and fan (cpu and video card) with a brush and vacumn cleaner. If it still crashes, I reccommend you test your RAM.

There is a RAM tester available from microsoft as a bootable CD ISO, thats the best way to test your ram as it runs without any OS on top. There is also a free windows test app out there which isn't too bad, and much more convenient, but close as many apps as possible before running it. If it finds errors then you DEFINITELY have bad ram, but if it finds nothing there is no guarantee that it didn't miss something. Only way to be sure is with an app that comes as a bootable CD or floppy.

Sorry, can't remember the name of that windows tester app. A while back I started getting random bluescreens and corrupted files and it turns out it was bad ram.
I returned the ram, week later same thing. I eventually got some high-quality ram and my pc has been rock-solid stable since. I swore I'd never go for cheap ram again.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Sorry to hear that Brag mate.

I gotta say, that it sounds like a hardware component failure to me.

I hope you get it sorted soon.

[Dowly]

Yeh, that has to be hardware related or VERY screwed up install. Hope you sort it out!

[Brag]

Thanks, Mates,

I'll follow through and see what works

[danlisa]

In your advanced system settings (found through control panel) there are options relating to debugging & error msg's, by default Windows will reboot in the event of such an error.

What you need to do is disable this, so that when a crash happens you either get a error code on your desktop before it reboots or you get a BSOD after the reboot.

If you can get either of these messages to appear there will be details regarding the file or process that caused it along with an error code, this will be invaluable in try to solve this.

Good Luck

[Brag]

Thanks, Danlisa,

We shall what this computer illiterate can do. Have to wait a bit as a storm is making power unreliable.

I was thinking of going to the previous configuration then re-installing 1.03
but if I can get the error message(s) it could be useful to everyone.

[Brag]

I disabled and get the following:

A problem has been detected and window has been shut down to prevent damage yo your computer.

Driver IRQL not less or Equal

The goes on about making sure Harware or software is properly installed

Technical info; Stop: 0X000000D1 (OXE1B3901A, OX00000006, OXF628EC9E) base at F626D 000
DATE STAMP 425b3bbc

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Brag

I disabled and get the following:

A problem has been detected and window has been shut down to prevent damage yo your computer.

Driver IRQL not less or Equal

The goes on about making sure Harware or software is properly installed

Technical info; Stop: 0X000000D1 (OXE1B3901A, OX00000006, OXF628EC9E) base at F626D 000
DATE STAMP 425b3bbc

mostly at a reboot of a Blue screen of death you get a Windows error report

if you press SEND report , you might be lucky a Browser will pop up to the mircosoft page and maybe gives some clearance what is wrong

on the other hand, If reinstall the drivers and updating them to the latest version isnt helping.

you might consider , making back ups and do a total formatation of your hard drives

and start fresh all over. it sounds as a last solution, but I it might help you out
(dont waste too much time trying to fix it , you will be stressing too much)

(just one more thing, does this only happen with SH3 or other games as well?)

[danlisa]

Has anything changed and I mean anything changed in your system. This could be a USB plugin, Faulty RAM or corrupted GFX drivers. It is however, driver related.

There are plenty of Google results if you put in "Driver IRQL not less or Equal".

[Brag]

1 I have removed all other games when installing GWX last December. then installed Nvidia 5700--GWX ran peachy after that. Installed GWX 1.02 no problems, game ran perfectly. Last Saturday installed GWX 1.03, it ran perfectly. Saved on the surface. Sunday, the thing crashed on start.

Havent done anything to ports or hardware since installing Nvidia.

[danlisa]

Try updating your nVidia drivers BUT make sure all remnants of the old drivers are gone first, this is usually why this happens. I think there is a nVidia removal tool.

Edit - have a look here - http://www.3dchipset.com/utilities/n...oval/index.php

[Brag]

Thanks , Danlisa,
Having trouble loading that page. Grrr. At least,this is not a GWX problem.
Will see what I can do with Nvidia drivers.

[Jimbuna]

Def not a GWX prob Had a similar experience with my daughters rig 3/4 months back.....Reinstalled XP Pro (repair mode) and faulty/ missing drivers were installed....prob solved

[Brag]

I removed drivers, reinstalled proper ones with help of Nvidia techie. We went through 2 game loads, now got crashes to desktop. Tried with flight combat simulator and that worked.

I removed SH 3 and reinstalled SH=3 from DVD--that didn't work