About Trev Expertise General game tips, and tech help. I am very good at tweaking, and trouble shooting. Greatest Achievement: Capturing the Flag in heavy armor.
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 Sounds like you might have some overheating issues. Try opening up the case and pointing a housefan into the chasis and see if the crashing stops or at least takes longer to occur.
If it does there are a variety of ways we can improve the heat.
