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Software => Computer games => Topic started by: squall_01 on November 26, 2008, 08:50:45 AM
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No matter what these games freeze up an restart my machine lego racers,lego harry potter,lego knights kingdom. On other systems there running fine but except the main gaming machine.
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Here's the spec's Pentium 4 Socket 478, Intel SE7210TP1-E Sever Board, DDR RAM 1 GB, SATA Drives 160 GB 320 GB, HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1 Gold, Radeon X1300
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OS?
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It says in his description, WinXP
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Windows xp professional
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So any ideas what could cause this to occur
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Try visiting this:
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,62253.0.html
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No matter what these games freeze up an restart my machine lego racers,lego harry potter,lego knights kingdom. On other systems there running fine but except the main gaming machine.
Just to make sure, it's RESTARTING your computer and not SHUTTING OFF your computer, right?
In that case, it's a suppressed Blue Screen of Death.
Do this: Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Advanced Tab -> click "Settings" under "Startup and Recovery," uncheck "Automatically Restart" -> Apply -> OK.
Fire up one of those games again.
This time, you'll get the Blue Screen of Death. Write down EVERYTHING on the Blue Screen and post it here.
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that seems a little far out there. But that kind of scary to think about that happing with out me aware of it.
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What? Don't like changing with Windows Settings?
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I'm not against it. Just that this is happing with out me know it has occured.
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I'm not against it. Just that this is happing with out me know it has occured.
Knowing that what has occurred exactly....
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an unmaskable interupt attcking my system. gusse we wont now then.
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Hmmm...
Write down EVERYTHING on the Blue Screen and post it here.
Could you maybe do that Squall?
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You'd be surprised what Windows does behind your back...
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yeah. however now thats why I posted.
Hmmm...
Write down EVERYTHING on the Blue Screen and post it here.
Could you maybe do that Squall?
carbon knows of this my board is shot i have to get another which is like 200 or so.
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Do I? Oh well. Good luck!
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Is there a reason why you haven't followed the suggested steps, squall?
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Is there a reason why you haven't followed the suggested steps, squall?
He's just ripping a page from Nymph4's playbook...
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no my board is shot an I dont have one at the moment
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What kind of gun? ::)
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soldering
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........You soldered your motherboard?
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resoldered thats why i cant figure why its not working.
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Would have been nice to know in the first place......
If you missed the solder point, solder or hit other components, you may have damaged the board.
Squall, this is one thing you don't do. You don't give us enough information (If I had a nickel every time I said that).
We need to know EVERYTHING in order to diagnose the problem.
We weren't there when the problem happened and we were there to know what you have done to the computer.
We aren't magic.
We can't interface with your computer and ask it what's wrong. You have to tell us.
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I mentioned it in another post that real recent. I expect my post to be read if I have to repeat my information alot of the time then Im not doing that well.
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It's not "repeating" information if you never mentioned it in the first place. This may surprise you, but we don't trawl all your other posts to collect information about your problem.
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We're too busy to go looking through your previous topics, Squall.
What's the harm in retyping it?
Heck, write it up in a text file and just copy it to the forums every time.
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Even if we did read all of your posts, we still wouldn't know for sure what was going on.
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I understand that part of the time but every single time. I could have like five post protaining to the same machine then.
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I understand that part of the time but every single time. I could have like five post protaining to the same machine then.
then only make one.
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you've seen what happens then. what were who whom?????????????????
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One post per problem. If you can't be bothered to include details, why should we bother to look through your previous single-sentence replies to try to determine them?
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I would, but all the details are easily gotten cause I had posted them
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I think you missed the point.
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If you want to keep your specs in one post, fine. Link to that post so we don't have to find it.
However, you still have to tell us the problem in more depth.
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or even better- two keystrokes. Control-C, control-V? What is so time consuming about that?
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If we were getting paid to do this, maybe we'd be willing to search through the hundreds of posts you make daily (and unnecessarily), but this is a free service that we provide during our spare time. If you expect to get FREE help, don't you think we at least deserve certain common courtesies? After all, it's your problem, not ours. What's it going to hurt to make our "job" a little easier for us? It's better than not getting help from us at all, right?
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I'm not saing that but we made one posting about are machines. So If I put gaming machine then you can assume its the one I had posted since I didnt give you any reasons to think otherwise abot that,
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But we need to know the specs.....as well as the problem....
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the specs are listed, the issue would be posted then. sorry I was kind of upset so I hope that now one takes anything what I said recently in this post too seriously. It just the freaking holidays an stuff.....
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My point is you can't expect us to find the information or know what the problem is.
You just mentioned, 16 days after you started this topic, that you had soldered the motherboard. Such information can be posted in the first post.
You also need to tell us when it started and what you have been doing that may have caused the problem.
Also tell us as much as you can about the problem (any sounds, exact error messages, ect...)
I believe you need to study this:
We need more information. Please look here: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,33586.html
All your topics start like 'blah blah doesn't work. What can I do'
I/we always refer you to that above topic, but we only get an reply of equal length.
We cannot help you if we don't know all the information.
If we didn't have to keep telling you to put more info, you're post count would be half of what it is now...
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i try to but i always seem to overkoo something
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I'm not saing that but we made one posting about are machines. So If I put gaming machine then you can assume its the one I had posted since I didnt give you any reasons to think otherwise abot that,
Wait...you're saying that because you said this is your gaming machine, we're supposed to know everything about it? I have no knowledge of this computer and what modifications you have made to it. I didn't even know that you had a gaming machine, nor did I know that you have more than one computer. We're not psychics and we don't read all of your posts. Out of the hundreds of computers on this forum, the only one I'm familiar with is my own.
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Squall:
I hate to sound harsh (and this is definitely going to), but:
Post the info. If you don't, we can't help you.
It's not our job to help you. We don't have to help you. We choose to.
If you're going to inconvenience us by having us go out of our way more than necessary and pretend to be someone we're not (psychic), we can just simply refuse. If you want to go to another forum, fine. In the little time I've been here, I've noticed that there are very nice people here who go out of their way to help others. Don't walk all over them or take advantage of their kindness. We need that kindness in this world--don't destroy it with your laziness and sense of entitlement.
Again, post the info requested or go somewhere else for help.
i try to but i always seem to overkoo something
...and that's fine. We're all human. We make mistakes. We also learn from the mistakes so we're less likely to make them again.
If you overlook something, we can tell you what you overlooked so you include it next time. If you want to build a house, you have to start somewhere. If you missed a window or a vent, someone will tell you and you can go from there. :)
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this post gone past the scope of its intial posting. I will try what was recommened an see what will happen once I get a new board. There was a post your pc like fourm but it appears that not only just me dont see half of these at times.
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There was a post your pc like fourm but it appears that not only just me dont see half of these at times.
Again, the entire point was completely missed. It's been said; maybe your specs appear elsewhere on the forum, but just because something was mentioned in passing doesn't mean everybody else will have it on instant recall.
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There was a post your....what????
To repeat what we've all been saying, we are simply not bothered to go searching the three thousand posts if yours looking for your most recent specs.
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From now on, unless otherwise stated, I'm going to assume his computer is a Commodore 64. I will then provide the simple advice "Try RUN" until the specs are otherwise revealed to NOT be a commodore 64.
nah, I'm kiddin. I'm going to do it anyway.
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I don't think the doctor slapped this guy at birth, they played tennis with him ....
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this post gone past the scope of its intial posting.
Often times, that happens.
I was once told by a former employer that a computer network is like a card house. If you pull the wrong card, the whole thing may come tumbling down.
In other words, sometimes the smallest problems have a large number of factors.
that seems a little far out there. But that kind of scary to think about that happing with out me aware of it.
Computers do a lot of things without people being aware of it. In some cases, that's a bad thing (viruses, malware), in some cases, that's a good thing (I don't need to see all the 1s and 0s when I copy a file). In case of suppressing a Blue Screen of Death, I'm not sure why Microsoft decided to do this. Maybe they though home users would **** their pants after seeing one. :)
I will try what was recommened
Please do.
an see what will happen once I get a new board.
Please do. :)
There was a post your pc like fourm but it appears that not only just me dont see half of these at times.
Usually those are "for fun" topics (also known as "Show your e-peen"). They don't get stored in some database or anything for people to reference to whenever things go wrong. In a perfect world, it would.
In any case, if you really want to have the info handy for people to reference to without having to repeat yourself, finish filling out your Forum Profile Information under "Computer." So far, you only have "Pentium 4 2.8 GHz" showing up...
Now I can draw a few conclusions just from the CPU, though:
1) Socket 478 motherboard.
2) Northwood or Prescott core
3) DDR1 RAM
Since Socket 478 boards aren't available retail anymore, your best bet would be eBay for a new board.
Otherwise, save your money and put that toward a new build. If you go down this path, you'll have to get, at the very least:
1) New motherboard (of course)
2) New CPU
3) New RAM (DDR2 or DDR3, depending on the board)
4) New video card if you were using an AGP card (Socket 478 boards have AGP slots--new boards have PCI-e for video cards)
5) New power supply if your old one is less than 500W, a generic brand name model, or lacks an EPS12V connector.
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I don't think the doctor slapped this guy at birth, they played tennis with him ....
no, i had to get extra digits removed. ha ha big laugh there. I own a working commodore so what. the thing is we made a post an I feel like pitching a new idea if you guys arent to much of a stuck up geek to listen.
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I don't think the doctor slapped this guy at birth, they played tennis with him ....
no, i had to get extra digits removed. ha ha big laugh there. I own a working commodore so what. the thing is we made a post an I feel like pitching a new idea if you guys arent to much of a stuck up geek to listen.
Hey man, we listen to every word you say.. Don't let all those critics stop you, I'm your biggest fan.
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yes but your probably sideing with them arent you?
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do you mean a new idea on solving your problem squall? Of course, any input regarding your situation or intended attack vectors towards your problem would be welcome.
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yes but your probably sideing with them arent you?
Of course not. We're a team man, you and me. Jake and the Fatman, Lassie and that snotnosed kid...
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I dont no who those are but, okay????? No I ment like for ch, when I have the time this spring I'll be on more so I'll be able to clean up matters around here of mine.
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You're not going to bring a gun in here, are you...?
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Just post your specs again.....Simple.
If you refuse to do that, there is NOTHING we can do.
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no I ment when I stsrt classes that I will have some time to get my matters sorted out. Well I was going to say just forget it, just something I only started about since I was moody so forget.