PC driving me mad! Help me!

[okgo]

Hello folks.

You may remember my thread about my OS shutting my pc down all the time as it was not a full retail copy.

So I have installed xp onto the machine from a copy I had, its all legit and has installed fine.

However now when I download steam and install Modern Warfare 2 as soon as I load the game, it crashes. Everytime. Now I have looked at various fixes, and tried them all, and I think its fair to say that its not the game...

Things I have done:

Wiped and fresh installed windows a second time.
Newest nvidia drivers, and also the one that shipped with the card

Now it did blue screen once as well, which got me thinking is this a harddrive issue?

It was all working FINE when it had windows 7 on it a month ago, any ideas chaps? It's driving me mad have all these new games and a decent spec pc to play them with that crashes every game

[Silverbullet767]

Does it only do it when playing MW2? Or does it sut down randomly at other times?

Could be a heat issue, a guy at my work had the same problem, turned out it was the thermal paste on the processor that had broken up and was affecting the heat transfer to the heat sink, doing something like running a game will make the processor run hotter, he also had a duff HDD too (to make matters worse)

Might be worth scraping off the old heat compound and applying a fresh layer.

[okgo]

Its not a heat issue as nothing has changed on the pc and it worked one day not the next. It literally crashes as soon as the spalsh screen for mw2 loads. And not the pc is stable other than that.

[RobCrezz]

Have a look in Device Manager. Check you have the drivers for everything.

[itsnotarace]

Start>run>dxdiag

Run through all the tests

Maybe drop the game resolution as well

[okgo]

RobCrezz said:

Have a look in Device Manager. Check you have the drivers for everything.

Yep all fine.

[RobCrezz]

Try reinstalling DirectX.

Have you tried any other games?

[okgo]

No will t ry cs:s and Bad Company 2 later, thanks didn't think of DX.

[lestag]

okgo said:

Hello folks.

Now it did blue screen once as well, which got me thinking is this a harddrive issue?

what was the stop code? (look in event viewer IIRC )

[Mr_S]

Do any other games work?

Make sure you have the latest driver for your soundcard aswell.

[okgo]

lestag said:

okgo said:

Hello folks.

Now it did blue screen once as well, which got me thinking is this a harddrive issue?

what was the stop code? (look in event viewer IIRC )

At work atm will post this up asap.