[slime]

Hi everyone,
sorry to bore you all but I am having great trouble playing HL2, CS or CSS. On HL2 I can't even start a game, the screen goes bright blue & then re-boots my PC!!
I wrote down some of the stuff that was on the blue error screen.
It began by stating, on the top of the page,

"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer".
It then goes on about checking this & that, stuff I don't really understand, but there was a line headed "Technical information" which went as follows.

***STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC000001D, 0xE3F937c7, 0xA75BD88C, 0x00000000).

On CS & CSS I can play for up to 1 minute before the whole thing locks up & I get a constant machine gun noise, weird. Eventually the machine re-boots its self.
In any event, on re-boot I get the following error messages,

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3...essagesrc5.png

I've tried playing with Firewall off & I've also turned the graphics down pretty low, but always get the same results.
PC spec as follows ;
AMD Athlon 2400+
XP Home SP3,
ATI Radeon 9600XT,
1.00GB Ram.

This only happens on Steam/Valve games.
All other games are fine & I do have the latest drivers installed.
Can play other games for hours with no probs at all.
Played HL2 about three years ago with no probs, but now I just can't seem to get anywhere at all.
Can't think what's different from 3 years ago other than I didn't have my 9600XT back then.

I also started HL2 in a window whilst running SpeedFan so I could see what was happening.
Opening screens were not a problem. It then went to 'Start New Game' & the CPU usage bar on SpeedFan went straight to 100%.
The the HL2 screen went black and I could see a 'Loading' progress bar. When this was running CPU usage was mostly around 22%. Once loaded the screen remained black but with HALF LIFE 2 written across it. CPU usage then went straight over to 100%, I then got the 'Blue Screen of Death' for about two seconds before my machine re-booted.
Fan temperatures were Fan1 43C, Fan2 53C & HDO 36C.

Have also verified GCF cache files, no difference,
sorry about the length of this post but 'information is power' as they say.
I'm sure you guys can help,
in anticipation,

Slime.

[Black Magic]

Did you check the minimum system requirements? If youre running the absolute minimum, then its a sure thing youre PC is going to crash. It may also be the OS. If the box said "Games For Windows," then sorry dude but you are going to either a) Get a new computer with Vista on it, or b) Get Windows Vista, because Vista is the only OS that DX 10 is compatible for. Option A is probably cheaper.

[SocialWarfare]

Its not "Games For Windows" Its steam/valve
Have you tried installing the most recent drivers?

[thingie2]

Originally Posted by Black Magic

Did you check the minimum system requirements? If youre running the absolute minimum, then its a sure thing youre PC is going to crash. It may also be the OS. If the box said "Games For Windows," then sorry dude but you are going to either a) Get a new computer with Vista on it, or b) Get Windows Vista, because Vista is the only OS that DX 10 is compatible for. Option A is probably cheaper.

Games for windows isn't just for vista, I've got a game that says Games for Windows, and it's fine on XP.

[slime]

Hi people,
thanks for your time.

Minimum requirements are as follows :
OS : Windows 2000/XP/ME/98
Processor : 1.2 Ghz
Memory : 256 MB Ram
Graphics : DirectX 7.
Even my old machine can cope with that lot !!!
I've also got the latest graphics drivers for my 9600XT.
Are there other drivers I should try?
Someone mentioned chipset drivers but I think that would be too technical for me.
Any other thoughts out there?

Hopefully,

Slime.

[SocialWarfare]

Do you have AVG or NOD32 installed? They been known to cause BSOD'S with Steam/Valve games

Also it could be RAM related, do you have a single gig or two sticks?
If you have 2 try taking out one and running the game and visa/versa

[slime]

Do you have AVG or NOD32 installed? They been known to cause BSOD'S with Steam/Valve games

Hi SocialWarfare,
I do use AVG, but so does my son & he has no problems playing these games.
I will, however, try it with AVG turned off & will report back later,
many thanks,

Slime.