I recently upgraded to Windows 7 pro 64bit, and I'm running an overclocked system.
I have Crysis which I bought on DVD, and I've gone back to playing it again. A few times I've forgotten to take it out of the drive when I've finished playing at night, and the next day had some weird problems. So, I wondered if anybody else had found this??
First thing I noticed was that on boot I got a message saying that I might not be running a legitimate version of windows (and I definitely am). I took the Crysis disk out and rebooted and no problems.
Last night I forgot to take the disc out and when I booted up this evening after work I noticed the computer was sluggish (completely slipped my mind that the disc was in the drive).
Did some searching around in windows doing various troubleshooting stuff I normally do, and then resorted to the bios. Reset the system to stock and got a good boot, but then rebooted and got a bad boot (programs wouldn't load).
Messed around in the bios changing things and getting various results - but nothing satisfactory, and then it occurred to me that the Crysis disk was in, so I took it out.
Back into bios and reset system to previous overclock settings, saved to cmos and rebooted. Perfect boot and system running as before. I've rebooted multiple times since and no problems.
I know Crysis uses heavy copy protection (securom I think), and I wondered if this messes with windows on boot. I remember on my previous system (different hardware and running xp pro), the crysis disk used to make the dvd drive make a clicking sound I had never heard before, and a google search confirmed that I wasn't the only one. Doesn't happen on this system, but I've had these other problems with it instead.
Anybody got any insight on this. My system doesn't seem to like the disc being in at boot.
I have Crysis which I bought on DVD, and I've gone back to playing it again. A few times I've forgotten to take it out of the drive when I've finished playing at night, and the next day had some weird problems. So, I wondered if anybody else had found this??
First thing I noticed was that on boot I got a message saying that I might not be running a legitimate version of windows (and I definitely am). I took the Crysis disk out and rebooted and no problems.
Last night I forgot to take the disc out and when I booted up this evening after work I noticed the computer was sluggish (completely slipped my mind that the disc was in the drive).
Did some searching around in windows doing various troubleshooting stuff I normally do, and then resorted to the bios. Reset the system to stock and got a good boot, but then rebooted and got a bad boot (programs wouldn't load).
Messed around in the bios changing things and getting various results - but nothing satisfactory, and then it occurred to me that the Crysis disk was in, so I took it out.
Back into bios and reset system to previous overclock settings, saved to cmos and rebooted. Perfect boot and system running as before. I've rebooted multiple times since and no problems.
I know Crysis uses heavy copy protection (securom I think), and I wondered if this messes with windows on boot. I remember on my previous system (different hardware and running xp pro), the crysis disk used to make the dvd drive make a clicking sound I had never heard before, and a google search confirmed that I wasn't the only one. Doesn't happen on this system, but I've had these other problems with it instead.
Anybody got any insight on this. My system doesn't seem to like the disc being in at boot.
