About Dennis Fastenow Expertise I have been building high grade gaming systems for about 5 years and have experience with most games of the first person shooter type.
Expert: Dennis Fastenow Date: 1/9/2005 Subject: Half-life 2 Crashes my PC! Help!
Question Hi there,
When I came back from a one week holiday (just a few days ago), the blue screen of death started to pop up every now and then.
It happens very quickly (only few minutes into a game) when I'm playing games such as Half-life 2, CS, UT2004, and NFS. Once the BSOD pops up, my computer restarts.
I've tried just about everything I could think of to resolve it; ran norton antivirus, windoctor, and diskdoctor, as well as ad-aware, spybot search & destroy, as well as PCBugDoctor -which claimed it could fix BSOD errors (what a load of BS!). They didn't help. However, when I'm not playing games or do things that don't require a lot of resources, such as just surfing the net and MSN, everything's fine. I've updated windows (can't install SP2 though since my version isn't authentic), got the latest nVidia display drivers, reinstalled DirectX 9c, increased my HDD page-file size, but that didn't help. These are my system specs:
Windows XP Pro
P4 2.4Ghz (no HT), 533Mhz FSB
Asus p4b533-VM motherboard
512mb DDR RAM
80GB HDD
64mb Geforce4 MX440 (not integrated)
I hope you can think of something and sorry if this was a bit long.
Thanks for your time,
Tom
Answer much of the software stuff that says it can do wonderful things are PURE BS. you could be suffering from a heat related issue if it takes a while to happen, or it could be most anything I really hate those because of the difficulty of tracking them down...
You should be able to install SP2 all my systems are running a less than authentic corpirate version although I do have authentic copies I just hate dealing with the stupid authorizing routine....
How long has it been since you did a clean install? perhaps that could help?
let me know if I can offer you more non help...
I do frequent a website that you may find to be of some help www.futuremark.com there are alot of good threads that can help and also very helpful folks there too.
