San Adnreas crash>Computer Restart

[DJDJ]

Basically i had san an installed for a long time, no problems. Recently, as evident in another topic, i have had problems since installing my sounblaster live sound card (which is now disabled and uninstalled). Now, everytime i play the game, after a while my computer restarts. i havnt installed any mods since christmas, and had no problems before, but now i get random restarts. Could this be because of the sound cards? i do plan on removing the SB later, and reverting back to my onboard. but this sudden "f*ck you" stlye of restarting has got me confused and angry. I have NO idea why it would be doing this, and teh only thing that has changed is the sound card's being installed and disabled etc.

 

someone please help!!!

 

Specs:

 

Intel Pent 4 2.8Ghz,

(windows XP home sev pck 1)

248MB RAM

74.5GB harddrive.

I use a san an no cd crack becasue my san an CD has been completley f*cked.

 

 

[Plaka]

I don't know what the problem would be specifically but as you had no problems for quite a while it must be something you've done to your System recently ... you could try a "System Restore" or,

 

Try this:

Right Click "My Computer"

Advanced

Startup & Recovery

Settings

Un-check Automatically Restart

 

Hopefully you will get a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) and there will be an Error Code you can search to ascertain the problem.

 

 

[DJDJ]

havnt tried that.

Have done sys restore, but problem persists. ill try the other thing

[acetace]

same here!!!!

 

i used to have GTA-SA without any issue, i have not played it for a while now now... now i have rebuilt my computer and resinstalled GTA-SA on my pc and i have problems playing the game... i can get in the game no problem it's just that every 5 minutes the game crash and computer reboots

 

i have tried suggested... to disable to auto restart on windos xp system performance... but it only gave a blue screen without any text or useful inforamtion

 

finally i have winxp sp2 with directx9.0c and GTA-SA v2.0

 

following is some specs for my computer... please help... i really want to relive the glory of staying up late playing GTA-SA again

 

 

any help will be appreciated

 

acetace

 

 

Asus A7N8X

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

1024mb RAM

ATI Sapphire Radeon 9600 128mb

ATI Catalyst and Display Drivers v6.2

REaltek AC '97 audio driver

 

[DJDJ]

Okay...this SEEMS to work (SO FAR) for me:

 

after your comp restarts, or game crashes, there should be a dialog saying something like "wondows has recovered from a serious error"

here, you can also ssend an "error Report."

That i did, and a web page opened saying that the problem lay in my sound card (Realtek AC97) and that downloadeding the latest driver should fix this.

i did, and have managed to play "test drive" in San an (to fail and post in mission help snp) with no problem....apart from my Phoenix falling through the floor:S

 

So perhaps you should do that?

[acetace]

Okay...this SEEMS to work (SO FAR) for me:

 

after your comp restarts, or game crashes, there should be a dialog saying something like "wondows has recovered from a serious error"

here, you can also ssend an "error Report."

That i did, and a web page opened saying that the problem lay in my sound card (Realtek AC97) and that downloadeding the latest driver should fix this.

i did, and have managed to play "test drive" in San an (to fail and post in mission help snp) with no problem....apart from my Phoenix falling through the floor:S

 

So perhaps you should do that?

hey that worked!!!

 

a combination of

 

1) upgrading nforce2 driver to 5.1

2) reinstalling realtek 'ac 97

 

appears to work... at least i'm in the game for.... more than 5 minutes... i'll give it more tries today and you'll definately hear from me if i have more problem

 

the moral of this story... i will definately consider buying a third party sound card.... lol

 

 

 

thanks DJDJ

 

acetace