FAO Losty

Allanv · March 30, 2007, 03:29:49 PM

right there seems to be lots of different faults do you have the XP SP2 cd?

pop it in the drive open a command prompt and type

sfc /scannow then walk away have a beer, then reboot and try a game let me know what happens

Allanv · March 30, 2007, 03:33:35 PM

yet i got back further and i see what i was expecting, always the same bloody error.

what vid card Nvidea?

ianjpage · March 30, 2007, 04:23:44 PM

Quoting: Allanv

why did you rebuild it?

rebuilt cos he upgraded all the bits (and it were going slow!!)

ianjpage · March 30, 2007, 04:24:20 PM

Quoting: Allanv

what vid card Nvidea?

think it was originally but he now got an ATI something-or-other

Allanv · March 30, 2007, 04:37:36 PM

lets hope he does a sfc /scanow and posts the results

FUBAR · March 30, 2007, 07:23:50 PM

Quoting: Allanv

do you have the XP SP2 cd?

~~I have the Evesham Windows XP SP1 CD... will that work?~~

Ok I can't find my Win XP Home CD... i'll have a look tomorrow. I had it a couple of months ago when we did the system...

If I can't find it i'll be mightily annoyed

F Body · March 31, 2007, 03:28:58 AM

Quoting: FUBAR

Ok I can't find my Win XP Home CD...

Speaking of which i still have your Office XP Pro disc which I'll return tomorrow

ianjpage · March 31, 2007, 05:00:22 AM

Quoting: FUBAR

Ok I can't find my Win XP Home CD... i'll have a look tomorrow. I had it a couple of months ago when we did the system...

If I can't find it i'll be mightily annoyed

He means the SP2 cd i think??

If not i can bring one to the meet tomorrow and then u return it when doen?

Allanv · March 31, 2007, 05:38:14 AM

I mean the windows install disk with the latest Service pack.

FUBAR · March 31, 2007, 07:02:40 AM

Quoting: Allanv

I mean the windows install disk with the latest Service pack.

Ok i've got it, doing the scan now...

FUBAR · March 31, 2007, 07:21:27 AM

Quoting: Allanv

lets hope he does a sfc /scanow and posts the results

Ok...

Did the scan, the progress bar went all the way to the end and that was it... nothing popped up on screen & nothing new was displayed in the command prompt window either

Does that mean that was ok?

Allanv · March 31, 2007, 07:40:10 AM

yes now play a game see what hapens and can you post your rig specs

Allanv · March 31, 2007, 07:41:55 AM

See the crash that happened on the 14/03 referenced a Nvidea driver

FUBAR · March 31, 2007, 07:55:45 AM

Quoting: Allanv

and can you post your rig specs

Sent you an email m8.

FUBAR · March 31, 2007, 08:09:01 AM

Quoting: Allanv

yes now play a game see what hapens

I'm not going to be able to do this until tomorrow because i'm busy this afternoon & this evening. I will make sure I can play for a bit tomorrow because...

Another complication has arisen yesterday & today whereby my New GFX card is going to have to go back to be replaced on Monday because the Fan is Faulty (its making masses of grinding noise!) I can stop it sometimes by briefly prodding the fan but i'm not doing that continously so its going back to Overclockers for them to send me a replacement.

Which means i won't have a PC for a few days as i don't want to re-install the old Nvidia one.

Allanv · March 31, 2007, 08:22:57 AM

Right i am pretty sure that the nvidea one didnt remove properly, unless you removed it after the 14/03

FUBAR · March 31, 2007, 08:24:39 AM

My new ATI card was ordered on the 14/3 so the old card would have been uninstalled soon after that.

Allanv · March 31, 2007, 08:31:26 AM

then it didnt uninstall correctly, will have to find a cleaner for that then, mean while i will go back to building this system for an office

Losty · March 31, 2007, 09:48:38 AM

he has to be careful though, as his motherboard has an nvidia chipset

Allanv · March 31, 2007, 11:03:09 AM

Yup i know.

It all points to drivers, nvidea and something the game is running. But we still cant rule out faulty ram either... 1 step at a time.

and its time for a Beer this build is done.

Losty · March 31, 2007, 01:19:48 PM

starforce?

Allanv · March 31, 2007, 02:02:59 PM

whats starforce?

Losty · March 31, 2007, 05:10:29 PM

Starforce copy protection

google for it and draw your own conclusions whether its good or bad

My conclusion is that some people have said they have a lot of issues with it, some people never even know its installed

When i was looking through the list of games that ryan had, i realised he had installed Flat Out 2, and if memory serves me correctly, FO2 asks you to install the starforce drivers.

FUBAR · March 31, 2007, 08:49:42 PM

OK this happened tonight, I was meerly listening to iTunes in a drunken stupor at 1:40am (hence the blurry piccy)

Allan, i've emailed you a copy of the dump file associated with this...

FUBAR · March 31, 2007, 08:55:52 PM

This is really odd because this is the 1st time that it's crashed to BSOD or even at all when i've not been playing games...