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    C&C Generals: Causing BSOD

    I can no longer play Generals on my machine. When I do the machine either freezes, the game shuts down, but more often then not I get the BSOD and the machinie restarts. It only happens when playing Generals and the machine runs fine otherwise. I have already uninstalled and reinstalled the game, i have defragged the partition where my games are installed. Any suggestions.

    My Specs:
    XP3200
    1GB Corsair XMS PC3200
    Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
    MSI k6TV MB
    Win2K

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    i've got your exact system other than the operating system.. and generals used to freeze for me all the time until i updated with the new patch and installed Zero Hour, after doing that it ran fine, maybe you could try just installing the new patch?

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    Thanks, but I have all the latest patches as well as zero hour and I have the same problem regardless which version I am playing. However, I am considering upgrading to WinXP since everyone says is better for gaming

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    If you have the stock radeon9800 fan, then more than likely it's overheating. The stock fan on the 9800 is more than lacking unfortunately.

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    Did you install anything new (software or drivers) before the problem started happening?
    Such as the newer Video card driver. Motherboard drivers.

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    I though it may be software related, so I did a clean formatted my machine and did a clean install, but the problem remains. Also I've noticed is happening when I do any gaming and suspect it may be the video card. In regards to the video card overheating, does anyone know how I can find out about the temp?

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    Try running 3dmark 2003, if the system locks up or video starts slowing down quite a bit, then the video card is getting hot.

    Make sure you the adequate amount of case fans installed and the cpu isn't getting too hot.


    Do the newer ATI cards have a temperature monitor in the display settings? Similar to what Nvidia has.

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    nope

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    Well i swapped video cards with my room mate and the problem stays with my machine. At this point my testing is pointing to the Mobo crapping out on me. Check this I have an 2 SATA ports with one SATA HD installed. If I disable the SATA drives in the BIOS, my computer will no longer recognize any other devices installed on MB.

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    Also with regards to 3dMark 2003 is one of the few things that does not seem to crash my system.

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    Ultimate Member Vampiel's Avatar
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    disable the SATA drives in the BIOS, my computer will no longer recognize any other devices installed on MB
    You mean it does not recognize the cd-rom? That's odd but im not shocked. SATA drives do weird things to a computer sometimes as the standard is new and ive seen them do alot of odd thing's like, stop working all of the sudden, make drive's dissapear, etc...

    I have to enable the RAID controller on mine even though im not using RAID, b/c if I dont, it wont boot off the SATA drive.

    Now that you have cancelled out the video card, let's go down the list.

    1. Test your memory for at least 2 hours with this
    www.memtest86.com

    2. Re-install your motherboard driver's with the latest version

    3. Flash your BIOS with the latest version

    4. Re-install all drivers (sound card, directx, video card, in that order)

    5. Download this and let us know your temp's.
    http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

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    try and check again the video card compatibility with the game (did you try to uninstall and reinstall the drivers?), dumb down your sound and video resolutions, you may have a heat problem, PSU or RAM stick going bad?

    sorry Vampiel - banging thru threads and you'd already given him same advice
    Last edited by rmanet; 07-03-2004 at 08:43 AM.

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    I tried all these suggestions and no luck. I got a new MB coming in a couple of days to see.



    PS. The games were working well for a long time before this started happening!
    Last edited by MalRic; 07-05-2004 at 08:41 PM.

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