Vista keeps on crashing...

yantorsen · 25 Oct 2007 at 21:20

when I send my cpu back, will they want the cpu heatsink aswell?

SkeeterUK · 30 Oct 2007 at 17:19

Any news, or have u rma the stuff now.

yantorsen · 30 Oct 2007 at 18:00

SkeeterPSA said:
Any news, or have u rma the stuff now.

they came to pick up the stuff for the RMA last night, just waiting for news from ****. They say it should take about a week to do the testing, and then they've got to send me it all back, hopefully with something replaced, so it will probably be a week or two.

lay-z-boy · 31 Oct 2007 at 01:41

Might want to remove the competitor

yantorsen · 2 Nov 2007 at 16:39

right I should be getting the parts returned tonight, and they have repaired/replaced a part(s) acording to what was neccerserry, but they havn't said what.

yanto.

yantorsen · 2 Nov 2007 at 17:57

you'll never guess what, CItyLink have delivered it to the wrong adress, now I've got to find out which house it's at!

SkeeterUK · 2 Nov 2007 at 18:02

Sorry to hear. Doesnt seem anything can go right for you mate.

Since you shouldnt have to trace it up just tell xxxx about it and they should be able to claim the insurance and resend you new parts. Or at least i think they should/would.

yantorsen · 2 Nov 2007 at 18:24

right my dad went into town, and got it from there, and had to prove who he was it seems they had tryed posting it to my next door neighbour, but they wern't in. aparently it was an agency driver :rolleyes:

any way I've got it all back now, it's all fine, except the hard drive was faulty, so it's been replaced.

yanto.

SkeeterUK · 2 Nov 2007 at 19:07

You say its all fine and was the drive, so have you actually set the comp up and installed vista and tryed medievil 2?

yantorsen · 2 Nov 2007 at 20:03

SkeeterPSA said:
You say its all fine and was the drive, so have you actually set the comp up and installed vista and tryed medievil 2?

nope not yet it's still sitting in a cardboard box, so theoretically it might not work still. I'm pretty busy this weekend, not sure If I'll get time to build it again or not.

.Lethal · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:16

Just red the entire thread and from a few pages back I have to say I was pretty sure it was a HDD problem. At first I thought RAM up until page 3 or so and then I was certain it was your HDD.

Glad it all worked out in the end. Hopfully.

yantorsen · 2 Nov 2007 at 23:51

Damonic said:
Just red the entire thread and from a few pages back I have to say I was pretty sure it was a HDD problem. At first I thought RAM up until page 3 or so and then I was certain it was your HDD.

Glad it all worked out in the end. Hopfully.

yeah, I've just put it all altogethor, and I'm just installing Windows, so far so good

SkeeterUK · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:11

Hehe couldnt resist could you.

yantorsen · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:29

SkeeterPSA said:
Hehe couldnt resist could you.

lol

but unfortunatly, it's just had a BSOD during installation. :mad:

SkeeterUK · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:32

Try plugin the power lead in a diff socket could u and try it all again, sometimes the powersockets ppl use get dodgy so even tho its very slim possibility could u try it.

yantorsen · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:34

SkeeterPSA said:
Try plugin the power lead in a diff socket could u and try it all again, sometimes the powersockets ppl use get dodgy so even tho its very slim possibility could u try it.

I asume you mean the mains 3-point plug?

I'll try it, infact I've been using the same adapter the whole time, I'll try just plugging it straight into the mains.

SkeeterUK · 3 Nov 2007 at 00:36

Yeah 3 pin plug u plug in the wall with hehe. Yeah try diff wallsocket or diff adaptor if thats what u were using.

yantorsen · 3 Nov 2007 at 14:35

I've managed to install Vista now.

and I was getting some random BSOD's but they seemed to have stopped now.

I have all the sound/chipset/gpu drivers all installed, but I still can't get medieval total war to install, it keeps saying that the medium that my system is running at is different to the cabinet file, what does this mean?

thanks, yanto.

SkeeterUK · 3 Nov 2007 at 14:39

Medium is like hdd or optical drive/disc. Sounds like it doesnt like your dvd in the optical drive to me.

yantorsen · 3 Nov 2007 at 14:45

SkeeterPSA said:
Medium is like hdd or optical drive/disc. Sounds like it doesnt like your dvd in the optical drive to me.

I'll try installing JTF then instead.

is there any need to run games like MTW, and JTF (because there older) in compatibility mode? and when older games ask if you want to update DX, presumably you say no, becayse Vista has DX10 installed on it, and it's backwards compatiable right?