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Peter Fenwick
Bavarian-Board Contributor Joined: 27-August-2003 Location: Lost somewhere in time... Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
Topic: One for the computer experts. Posted: 02-July-2006 at 08:41 |
I have an Nvidea GE Force 7600gt, a dell 305W PSU, a dvd/cd R/W drive and a 120gb hard drive and that's about it. I know that a 350W PSU is recomended for the card but they also recommend the same for the 7800GT which is a lot more power hungry than mine. People in the know have told me it will be ok. Anyway i've not had the problem since, although I haven't played any games for any length of time. I've now contacted activision about the problem with COD2. I did a restore from before I intalled the game and I was able to reinsstall it. However I uninstalled and reset the restore after I got a 'blue screen of death' informing me the PC was shutting down to prevent damage twice.
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skull
Really Senior Member II Joined: 20-April-2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 640 |
Posted: 02-July-2006 at 03:18 |
what graphics card do you have and what power psu do you have ?
also what other items .i,e hard drives etc etc. |
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just a little crazy.
My drive E46 M3 COUPE [MAN]CARBON BLACK GREY LEATHER H/K 19"s LED REARS S/B. |
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nero
Moderator Group Just call me Tripod Joined: 15-October-2002 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 3131 |
Posted: 01-July-2006 at 16:47 |
If you suspect that it is heat, how about fitting an extra fan? I fitted a PCI Slot Fan from Maplins - something like this one |
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Peter Fenwick
Bavarian-Board Contributor Joined: 27-August-2003 Location: Lost somewhere in time... Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
Posted: 01-July-2006 at 16:01 |
Lancastrian, I've had Norton before and didn't like it. It slows the PC down too much. Thanks for the suggestion though. Dutch, if you can find the manual install instructions that would be great. TBH i've found that in a lot of cases it is quicker to do a maunual install then going through the auto-install procedure. |
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Peter Fenwick
Bavarian-Board Contributor Joined: 27-August-2003 Location: Lost somewhere in time... Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
Posted: 01-July-2006 at 15:59 |
I have upgraded the graphics card but ended up sticking with the original PSU. However it has been fine for about 2 months and according to everyone I've spoken to the PSU should be able to cope with the card. I suspect it was the heat, but i also think it could be something nasty that got onto my PC via the COD2 online game server since I have to allow it access through my fire wall.
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dutch
Really Senior Member I Joined: 17-December-2005 Location: lakeside Essex Status: Offline Points: 438 |
Posted: 30-June-2006 at 21:51 |
hello Peter had the same problem with battlefield 2, Go to the web site (activison i think) and there is a support site, they should tell you how to load the game manually,if they haven't go to EA games and read it there, i have a print around here somewhere if i find it i'll come back to you.
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Lancastrian
Bavarian-Board Contributor Joined: 10-July-2004 Location: Lancashire, UK Status: Offline Points: 760 |
Posted: 30-June-2006 at 21:26 |
Buy and install Norton Systemworks (includes antivirus). It will automatically keep your registry clean, remove internet clutter, check for viruses and loads of other things. I was sceptical before I was given a copy as a gift. I now think it is good value and does a good job. There is also the option to buy it bundled with Personal Firewall, which also works if you have not got one. Edited by Lancastrian |
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nero
Moderator Group Just call me Tripod Joined: 15-October-2002 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 3131 |
Posted: 30-June-2006 at 21:14 |
Looking back at previous posts, haven't you recently upgraded Video Card and possibly a Power Supply - where are you at with these upgrades? If you've put a new Video Card in and haven't upgraded you power supply, that could be the problem? Games tend to be graphics intensive and require more power from the PSU. Also agree with scarface that it could also be memory.
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scarface
Really Senior Member I Joined: 16-June-2004 Location: Surrey, UK Status: Offline Points: 414 |
Posted: 30-June-2006 at 20:23 |
I would say either power supply, memory or overheating. Edited by nero |
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Peter Fenwick
Bavarian-Board Contributor Joined: 27-August-2003 Location: Lost somewhere in time... Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
Posted: 30-June-2006 at 11:58 |
I have a registry cleaner but it isn't so good at pulling out old entries related to games.
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spokey
Bavarian-Board Contributor Offensive and obnoxious tub of lard Joined: 02-March-2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1948 |
Posted: 30-June-2006 at 11:46 |
Have you looked on Google for a registry cleaner?
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Peter Fenwick
Bavarian-Board Contributor Joined: 27-August-2003 Location: Lost somewhere in time... Status: Offline Points: 6484 |
Posted: 30-June-2006 at 11:23 |
I have had a couple of computer problems and wondered if anyone on here could help. While playing Call Of Duty2 online last night my computer rebooted for no reason. What would cause my PC to suddenly reboot? It happened again while I was on the internet. Should I be worried? Also I tried to update the game online and halfway through the update installation crashed. Because of this the game stopped working properly so I tried to uninstall it in add/remove programs. This wouldn't work so I manually removed it in windows explorer. However it still appeared in the add/remove programs menu and it wouldn't allow me to reinstall the game so I went into the registry using Registry editior and removed all the traces of the game I could find. It has now dissappeared from the add/remove programs menu but it still won't let me install it again. Does anyone know of any software that will find out all the old references to the game in the registry etc so I can delete them? I have had this problem with games before and it always turns out to be old registry entries or files on the computer. |
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