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jinomichele
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Hi Just signed up to this forum to help, i don't know if this will help but for me it did hope for you too.
I can't describe the problems i've had with half-life2 (random reboots while playing the game, memory allocation errors, sometimes the screen would just freeze and then a message would come up saying HL2 caused an error and had to be shutdown) it was a nightmare. Anyway i read on microsoft that you can set your computer to not restart when an error occurs you can do this by going to START, CONTROL PANEL, SYSTEM, ADVANCED, click SETTINGS under "SYSTEM AND RECOVERY", under "SYSTEM FALIURE" click to clear the AUTOMATICALLY RESTART check box and press OK and OK.
This will stop the computer from rebooting when theres an error, instead a blue screen should appear telling the problem. For me it was CHKdsk.sys, nvdisp.dll etc... This was just one of the other random things i did to try and stop the problem, but obviously it didn't because it was a blue screen with an error instead of the reboot.
A week ago i bought a simulation game and was having problems with that too, same sort of thing, so this is what i did...
Opened up the computer and found there was a wire touching the memory card, don't know if this solved it, but i took the memory card out and moved to another slot, started up the computer, played HL2 and no more random reboots or errors and finished the game the same night.
Make sure nothing is touching your memory card, Graphics card, sound card etc... they seem to be very sensitive to things touching them. I had the same sort of problem with a computer i built a few years ago it just wouldnt boot up and found all it was was a screw touching the bottom of the motherboard anyway...
Hope this helps, please try it and let me know how you get on.
Good Luck
I can't describe the problems i've had with half-life2 (random reboots while playing the game, memory allocation errors, sometimes the screen would just freeze and then a message would come up saying HL2 caused an error and had to be shutdown) it was a nightmare. Anyway i read on microsoft that you can set your computer to not restart when an error occurs you can do this by going to START, CONTROL PANEL, SYSTEM, ADVANCED, click SETTINGS under "SYSTEM AND RECOVERY", under "SYSTEM FALIURE" click to clear the AUTOMATICALLY RESTART check box and press OK and OK.
This will stop the computer from rebooting when theres an error, instead a blue screen should appear telling the problem. For me it was CHKdsk.sys, nvdisp.dll etc... This was just one of the other random things i did to try and stop the problem, but obviously it didn't because it was a blue screen with an error instead of the reboot.
A week ago i bought a simulation game and was having problems with that too, same sort of thing, so this is what i did...
Opened up the computer and found there was a wire touching the memory card, don't know if this solved it, but i took the memory card out and moved to another slot, started up the computer, played HL2 and no more random reboots or errors and finished the game the same night.
Make sure nothing is touching your memory card, Graphics card, sound card etc... they seem to be very sensitive to things touching them. I had the same sort of problem with a computer i built a few years ago it just wouldnt boot up and found all it was was a screw touching the bottom of the motherboard anyway...
Hope this helps, please try it and let me know how you get on.
Good Luck
