Vista keeps on crashing...

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.
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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.
 
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.
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Medium is like hdd or optical drive/disc. Sounds like it doesnt like your dvd in the optical drive to me.
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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?
 
I tryed installing JTF and it came up with a similer error saying that the source was corrupt, and said it could be caused by a corrupt disk, bad download source, or a virus.

And if i think about it I've only just installed MTW 2 on my old computer about 2 months ago.
 
SkeeterPSA said:
No its really best you reinstall dx as its missing a lot of dx9 stuff causing problems in games, the problems should only come up when trying to play not install tho. As when i installed vista company of heroes didnt work, snowdog (from here) told me to install dx9.0c as the dx10 direct x has lots of files missing or very old. So i did what he said and it worked.

Also download performance and fix packs, theres a few out there just look for them.
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how will install updates/patches for games, if I can't even get them to install in the first place?

and another thing it seems when it installed windows, it didnt install windows media player properly, it says I need to download it because it is corrupted.
 
SkeeterPSA said:
All i can say i guess is try to get a new dvdrw drive and perhaps if after vista still corrupt then get a new vista disc or somit.

I mean if u cant even install dx from a game cd like medievil war 2 then its gotta be a drive prob i would think.
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I have already tryed with my old IDE DVD drive, which works fine on my old PC, but not on my new one.

and I can't afford a new copy of Vista :(

I'm just gonna ring up Scan and tell em it still isn't working,there phoneline isn't open till monday though.
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Btw what does start/controlpanel/admin tools section/event viewer. Then application or system, on the left menu say when u try installing or playing a game or installing new dx9.0c u downloaded etc.

Btw can we get some screenshots of stuff like device manager, event viewer partiton magic to check drive paths (not just the letters used by drives) and can u still not do a dxdiag report (start/run/dxdiag)

Also will you try what the forth poster was getting at in this topic. It may help. As im not sure what u did when u set ** comp up, did u format fully before installing vista, how did u format, did u make a partition if not do so to see if it works.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17798882 (forth post down and follow his posts)
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yep I did partition and format my drive like described by that 4th post, and I will get a dxdiag report for you, and some screenies of the above, but it will take a while as I'll have to put them on a CD/USB stick then onto this PC, because the internet isn't working on my new one.
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Does any of ** games install and play, what games have u tryed.

Heres somit off total war forums if its just metw2 problem.



Supose u can go through that list.
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I've done the first 4 on that, I'll try the rest of them, and the games which I have tryed are UT3, AOE3, MTW2, JTF, Soldier Front, KwonHo, and none of them work.
 
@ skeeter...

I'll give it a go, and I'll do all of the above to, i'll do it tonight and over tomorow morning probly, then i'll post my findings tomorow, to save keep going backwards and forth with my memory stick, because my two pcs are no where near each other.

thanks again.
 
barnettgs said:
Ok, a year ago or so, I tried to install XP on a machine, there was a random problem like blue screen of death and even if XP was installed successfully, some file download would turn out corrupted. Tried Memtest on the ram, it passed. I had tried everything but no luck.

In the end, I swapped the ram and the problem disappeared. The first ram was supposed to be compatible with motherboard but somehow it's not.

I was earlier suggesting in this thread that it could be ram but after reading your post, it has to be ram!

Look up memory website for a suitable ram or borrow off your friend.
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cheers,

thing is I don't have any money :S, and Sxxx have just tested my ram with my motherboard and everything, and they didnt find anything wrong with it?
 
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barnettgs said:
Exactly but have they installed Vista on it? I doubt it...

I think they may have tested it with Memtest and it passed but who knows?
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hmmm.... well ** right, they may not have tested it with vista, but I don't want spend money I havn't really got if it isn't going to help, because if its different ram I won't even be able to use it with my current stick to make up 4GB ram.

the gigabyte site says it is compatible and so did sxxx.
 
barnettgs said:
Ok, what you have said earlier in posts give a strong impression that it has to do with the ram.

What brand of ram is it? Just curious to know. It is best to borrow a stick of ram off a friend or maybe local shop if they can lend it to you.
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all my friends have dell type PC's so wouldn't let me take there pc apart because im not "qualified", and the ram is Corsair stuff here's a link to it in the ocuk shop.... http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-095-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=144
 
ByteJuggler said:
Hey yan,

I'm still prepared to drop by some time to have a wee look at your system if you want. (I have some DDR2 which I can bring along to help test/eliminate whether or not the RAM is at issue.)
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hey, yeah cheers, I think I may be calling on you to come and have a look, it's quite likely anyway, but I just wanna make sure I've done everything I can first, and that nothing is faulty, because I wouldnt wanna be wasting your time :)

thanks, yanto.
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Also handy to know, what exactly u have done since vista finished installing on ** hdd. Name each software/driver/version etc. Need to know if ** installing somit u shouldnt u see. Also would be handy to know does games worth when u try to install straight away the second vista had installed wihtout installing drivers (apart from gfx driver perhaps and sound) but only them 2.
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since I installed vista, I tryed to install the abit wifi drivers

they installed but it wouldn't find any networks, so I unistalled them, and reinstalled them, but still no networks were found, so I unstalled them again.


next i installed the chipset drivers from my CD-RW, and they installed fine.

I then installed the nvidia drivers from the same CD-RW, and they worked fine.

I then installed the sound drivers, which installed succesfully, and the sound works fine.
 
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DXDIAG screenies....

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dxdiag1.jpg


I wasn't quite sure what you wanted me to screenshot on the dxdiag thing, so if you wanted something else then say.
 
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