DVD drive issue?

gordonmull · 05-07-10, 02:13 PM

Has anyone else had a problem with SH5 crashing their PC?

I installed it, played for a couple of hours and turned it off. I started watching telly and mucking about on here when the pc reset itself. There was a brief flash of the blue screen then reboot.

Thought it was just one of those windows "moments" and came back on subsim. Same thing happened three times in a row

. I suspected it might be to do with the screensaver somehow, since the pc seemed to be idle for about long enough for that to kick in. Thinking this I ran a virus scan and kept the pc active. When it crashed this time I got a "found new hardware" balloon just before the crash informing me that a dvd player had been found.

This got me thinking....On the back of the SH5 box there's a note saying the antipirate (please not interested in DRM issue, just want to get this fixed) technology could interfere with DVD-RW drives and SH5 was the only change I had made to my machine that day. So I uninstalled SH5 and haven't had a problem since.

Anyone got any ideas that might help me? Apart from a new DVD drive that is...

05-07-10, 02:13 PM	#1
gordonmull Lieutenant Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Scotland Posts: 269 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	DVD drive issue? Has anyone else had a problem with SH5 crashing their PC? I installed it, played for a couple of hours and turned it off. I started watching telly and mucking about on here when the pc reset itself. There was a brief flash of the blue screen then reboot. Thought it was just one of those windows "moments" and came back on subsim. Same thing happened three times in a row. I suspected it might be to do with the screensaver somehow, since the pc seemed to be idle for about long enough for that to kick in. Thinking this I ran a virus scan and kept the pc active. When it crashed this time I got a "found new hardware" balloon just before the crash informing me that a dvd player had been found. This got me thinking....On the back of the SH5 box there's a note saying the antipirate (please not interested in DRM issue, just want to get this fixed) technology could interfere with DVD-RW drives and SH5 was the only change I had made to my machine that day. So I uninstalled SH5 and haven't had a problem since. Anyone got any ideas that might help me? Apart from a new DVD drive that is...