Windows XP is broken!

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Ok have a really strange problem with xp.

I formatted my pc yesterday morning and installed XP Home SP2.

Now the first problem, was norton. It wanted me to restart to complete the installation. However, whenever i restarted it came up with the message over and over again.

I ended up booting into safe mode, tried to load norton but norton crashed. Rebooted into windows, problem solved.

It seems the problem is happening all the time.

With xfire, every time i start it up, it brings up a window about adding or inviting friends to xfire. I uninstalled it and reinstalled which solved the problem.

It now seems to be happening everytime i start cod2/ cod uo up. It seems to think ive changed my hardware in someway, so pops up the message about auto detecting settings.

What is going on here :confused: :confused: :confused:

Edit spec:

AMD 64 X2 4400 @ stock
Asus A8N Sli Deluxe
Connect 3D X1900XTX 512mb @ stock
2 x 1GB Corsair XMS DDR 500 @ stock
2 x 120gb Seagate Baracuda (.7 or .8 i think) S-ATA (One with windows, the other with games on.

Before i formatted, everything was the same except i had my hard drives in Raid 0 array and i had an AMD 64 3200 winchester @ 2.6ghz instead of the x2
 
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il install norton, because for me its fine.

norton isnt causing the problem btw, its something else not sure what tho. Will probably format when i have time
 
any other ideas apart from format and dont install norton

ive got my games on one drive, with windows and programs on the other (norton, xfire, msn, teamspeak etc)

whats the easiest way of sorting it out so once ive formatted, its as if ive installed the programs again. Can i just copy my start menu programs list
 
AND I QUOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vicious said:
any other ideas apart from format and dont install norton
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It really annoys me when people moan about norton or whatever, this is not a thread complaining about norton, i havnt asked how to remove norton.

ARGH! :mad:
 
how is it the cause of my problems

how is it causing cod2 and cod uo to think my hardware has been changed every time i start it up. How does it make xfire think im starting it up for the first time.
 
bledd. said:
it may be annoying you, but we're persistant becuase we know we're right in this case!

regarding the secondary problem (cod2 :p)

have you installed newest drivers for chipset, graphics card, soundcard and also i'd run windows update

there's a tool called 'dxdiag' , do start, run, dxdiag, press enter, see if there's anything regarding any issues in there.

(you did reinstall COD2 yes, and not just copy the programfiles from an older installation of it?)
are there any COD2 patches? might well fix what you're after! can't remember having any problem like you're experiencing when i had it installed

[edit]did you install it to C at first (in this current xp install) and then copy it across to the 2nd drive? or just install it straight to it, as there'll be registry entires that are pointing to the wrong place if you copied it after..[/edit]

do they have their own COD2 forum on the manufacturers website? -this is becoming more and more common with newer games, probably a good place to check

hope it gets sorted :)
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Ive already looked on dxdiag, nothing wrong that i can see there. im running most up to date graphics, sound and chipset drivers.

I installed all my games straight to my F drive (2nd hard drive)

Ive only installed cod2 once on this windows install.
 
oh look, i used that link and removed norton, yet the problem is still there

So norton wasnt he problem so im guessing you lot dont want to hear to were wrong ...
 
maybe so, but it lead me to believe it was windows

back to my earlier question that everyone so kindly answered :rolleyes:

once ive formatted windows, whats the easiest way to sort out all my stuff on my F drive eg as if i had just reinstalled all my games, should i just copy the relevant program files list

what about registry entries?
 
right this is what i did

Used to have my 2 120gb hard drives in raid 0

i deleted the raid array, let windows setup format the first hard drive. installed windows on it.

When in windows, i formatted the second drive from within windows.

When it was formatted, i then installed cod2 and my other games on my F drive. I installed all the other stuff, xfire, teamspeak, firefox etc etc on the drive with windows (C)

On my F drive i currently have:

Oblivion, Cod2, Cod, Cod UO, Company of Heroes and a game called Pax galaxia

I have nothing else on there apart from that.

I was going to do what everyone else suggested and format my windows drive, but i was wondering about the games on the f drive, as it wont be in program files and i would have thought the registry entries would not be there meaning they wouldnt work?
 
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