My L4D2 will not boot up

PapaLazaru · 25 Dec 2009 at 22:03

Not sure if this is the right section but.....

I have had L4D2 since it came out. I bought Evil Genius from Steam earlier. Now when I go to boot L4D2 up, my ATI Control Centre gets involved and I get the 'VPU recovery' message. I cannot boot up L4D2.

Black screen, PC totally freezes up and I have had to manually turn off my machine twice now. I am none the wiser.

Drivers are all up to date and I have changed nothing.

Help anyone?

LeJosh · 25 Dec 2009 at 22:05

Check the temps of the GPU and CPU. Then report your findings sir.

Merry christmas

PapaLazaru · 25 Dec 2009 at 22:16

LeJosh said:
Check the temps of the GPU and CPU. Then report your findings sir.

Merry christmas

GPU 52c
CPU 23c

LeJosh · 25 Dec 2009 at 22:17

Are they both at full load though? VPU errors are related to heat I think...

PapaLazaru · 25 Dec 2009 at 22:18

No just idling. Seems strange been working fine. Like I say, nothing changed today apart from downloading a game from Steam.

LeJosh · 25 Dec 2009 at 22:21

Yeah but if you initiate L4D2 it will proceed to use the GPU I imagine causing heat, can you start a game at all? personally I think 50 at idle for the gpu seems a little hot but I don't know your GPU. What is it?

PapaLazaru · 25 Dec 2009 at 22:23

LeJosh said:
Yeah but if you initiate L4D2 it will proceed to use the GPU I imagine causing heat, can you start a game at all? personally I think 50 at idle for the gpu seems a little hot but I don't know your GPU. What is it?

As soon as I click to start the game on Steam the screen goes black. The music comes in and out as well.

ATI Radeon 2900XT.

LeJosh · 25 Dec 2009 at 22:35

What drivers is it?

I think this link will help you exponentially (perhaps) :-

Perhaps a fix

PapaLazaru · 25 Dec 2009 at 22:46

LeJosh said:
What drivers is it?

I think this link will help you exponentially (perhaps) :-

Perhaps a fix

Cheers I will have a look.

Looks like I cannot boot up ANY game at all. :mad:

PapaLazaru · 26 Dec 2009 at 11:52

Oh man this is getting worse.

Right I am on a different PC as my gaming rig has packed up totally. This is the chain of events -

1. PC working fine.
2. Download 'Evil Genius' from Steam
3. Browsing the net works fine.
4. Go to boot up L4D2. Get a black screen, intermittent music and PC crashed. ATI VPU recovery has kicked in.
5. Went to ATI to get latest drivers. Dowloaded full ATI CCC again.
6. Reinstalled it over the old one. (yeah I am lazy)
7. Tried to boot up BF2. Same issue. L4D2 doing same again.
8. Go to boot up Evil Genius. Will boot up though half of the screen is black on loading. Game plays fine.
9. Go to MS to check DirectX all correct. It is.
10. Go to do fresh reinstall of latest ATI drivers. Unistalled in correct order then rebooted into safe mode as I was going to use DriverCleaner to make sure all deleted.
11. PC sounds like it is booting up but getting a black screen. No BIOS or anything coming up. Light on the GPU flicks on so it appears to be working.

Hardware problem? I think my GPU has packed up

Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially on this day of rest.