My computer keeps crashing, can anyone help?

[Farside]

Right heres the problem:

I can play most games, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Silent Hunter 3, SWAT 4 and Half Life 2.

But it seems that the older games: Operation Flashpoint, Medal of Honour Pacific Assault, Deus Ex: Invisable War and even Call of Duty 2! crash between 5 and 10 minutes of gameplay. any ideas?

My set-up is:
AMD 3000+ 2.14 Ghz Processor
Ati Raedeon 9800 pro 256mb
Audigy 2 Soundcard
And 1.5 gig of RAM

I have direct x 9.0c and the latest Ati drivers, the soundcard drivers cannot be updated for some reason.

If anyone has any advice or help they can give me it'd be much appreciated

Thanks
Farside

[Marhkimov]

Obviously, you forgot to check your PM.



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[Gizzmoe]

Viruses?
Spyware? (use Ad-Aware or Spybot)
Defective RAM? (http://www.memtest86.com)

Maybe the sound driver is the problem. Reboot Windows to "Safe Mode" (F8 at the BIOS screen), goto Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager/Audio, Video and Gamecontroller and manually remove the driver. Then reboot to "normal mode" and reinstall it.

[Hellcat]

No one likes to hear this suggestion, but....

1) When is the last time you formatted your system? Seems that most of my friend's/family's computer woes are usually from a combination of poor maintenance (ie total lack of defrag/virus scans/firewalls/spyware/adware checkers etc...) and going where they should'nt on the net :d

2) After a clean install of your core windows componets it's much easier to troubleshoot driver issues as you can be certain that you are using the latest and the greatest with none of that fluff that comes with the OEM CD's.

3) Which Mobo do you have? The latest nForce boards are picky about BIOS updates and the like when you don't update the chipset drivers.

cheers,

[Iceman]

Keeps crashing?...solution is simple...get your important info off of it..email address web favorites...and projects working on...and format....You have a marvelous big paper weight otherwise which only pisses you off....time it takes to troubleshoot something like that you can it totally reloaded in a few hrs....Re-load one program at a time and see if it hapens again at some point..One thing too Is Win XP Service Pak 2...If you reload Win XP by chance try loading up the older games before you up date to this service pak and see if they play....Service Pak 2 has caused alot of older games not to work now....

Programs that are known to experience a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer:

Age of Empires II: Age of Kings
Chess Advantage III: Lego Chess
Combat Flight Simulator 3
Command & Conquer: Generals
Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Conflict: Desert Storm
Dead Man's Hand
Earth & Beyond
Elite Forces Vietnam: Special Assignment 2
Freedom Force
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Medieval Total War
Midnight Outlaw: Illegal Street Drag
Moto Racer
NASCAR Racing 2003
NBA Live 2000
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Roller Coaster Factory
Scrabble
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
SimCity 4
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Starcraft
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield
Tribes 2
Unreal II
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament Game of the Year Edition
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Collector's Edition


There are oodles of other software/games too...my son has Win XP pak 1 and he can play the Old Red Alert games...I cannot with pak 2....and since his MB is older it crashed windows when I tried to install Pak 2....weird...hit a major crossroad with pak 2.


Goes with out saying if you do format you absolutly have to have Virus/Spyware/Firewall protection....and run the scans frequently....defrag...and stay away from unknown porn sites.

[Farside]

lol, my PM's ok


lol anyway nah the sound card drivers are upto date completely (the disc that came with them is the most upto date ones (11/4/03)

the computer is brand new, formatted 12/12/05, no viruses,

gonna try the nforce drivers se what happens...

restarting

[Syxx_Killer]

Originally Posted by Iceman

There are oodles of other software/games too...my son has Win XP pak 1 and he can play the Old Red Alert games...I cannot with pak 2....

I am running SP2 and got Red Alert 2 to work again. I was so happy. That's one of my all-time favorite games (along with the Yuri's Revenge expansion). All you have to do is update the SafeDisc driver.

http://www.macrovision.com/products/...ownloads.shtml

[Farside]

nah its still crashing, getting error reports (you know, the ones you send) dunno what else to try, really am not keen on reformatting. any other ideas?

[sonar732]

Are those old school games being run in compatability mode? I might suggest also looking at the log files in the MMC. Start-run-type "mmc"-add snap in-select computer management. Then look at the system logs. This will show all of your crashes.