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 Posted: Thu, 30th Oct 2008 07:04 Post subject: Computer restarts when trying to mount fallout 3 in daemon. |
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yea... i haven't had anything restart my computer before simply by mounting the file in daemon.
has anyone encountered this before? i've tried 3-4 times and every time it restarts my computer.. also tried installinga newer version of daemon but the same happens.
like everyone else i'm using the release from RLD.
help would be appreciated... thx.
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jcx
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| Posted: Thu, 30th Oct 2008 09:15 Post subject: |
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have you tried mounting it on alcohol 120
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| Posted: Thu, 30th Oct 2008 17:05 Post subject: |
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gonna try and post results.
edit: tried with alcohol and the same shit happens.
specs: P4 3.2, 1.5gb ram, 7800GS.
the game doesn't even stay mounted for 2 seconds before the comp crashes and forces a restart.
it's not that big of a deal but i still wanted to try fallout.. guess i'll just have to wait till i get another rig.
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Oct 2008 01:46 Post subject: |
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hmm... tried it with red alert 3 and it stilll happens.. basically i mount for a couple of seconds and right before it starts up it crashes and restarts.
so i guess i can rule out it being the game's and/or daemon/alcohol fault... could it have something to do with the auto installer?
the last game i played was devil may cry 4 3-4 months ago and i could mount/install it without problems...
anybody got any suggestions?
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Oct 2008 02:04 Post subject: |
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disable the auto-start feature. If that helps, the problem lies with windows most likely.
if it doesnt, install a newer version of daemon (or at least the sptd driver). If you got the latest, uninstall, reinstall.
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Oct 2008 03:59 Post subject: |
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What's your motherboard and OS? Might be a problem with your SATA drivers.
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Oct 2008 05:53 Post subject: |
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| Lutzifer wrote: | disable the auto-start feature. If that helps, the problem lies with windows most likely.
if it doesnt, install a newer version of daemon (or at least the sptd driver). If you got the latest, uninstall, reinstall. |
i'll try it out.. so how do i disable the auto start feature?
| Quote: | | What's your motherboard and OS? Might be a problem with your SATA drivers. |
no idea on mobo.. i'm using XP pro/SP2.
anyways like i said before the last game i played without a hitch was DMC4.. can't really remember anything major that's been changed on my comp from that time till now that would cause these crashes.
also i tried mounting an older, much smaller game.. warcraft 3 and the startup/installation screen popped up and worked perfectly.
this is weird.
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Oct 2008 19:03 Post subject: |
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ok i disabled the auto run feature and i succesfully mounted the game... the problem is that as soon as i clicked the manual setup/install option it crashed and restarted.
guess we know the problem now.. does anyone have experience with how to fix the program that manages installation/setup of games? it seems to work fine when i install regular applications and older games... but with fallout/RA3 it just dies.
maybe i'll try to redownload COD4 or bioshock.. like DMC4 they worked without a hitch a while ago.
until then... any suggestions?
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jcx
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Oct 2008 23:25 Post subject: |
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just a guess but maybe the images are corrupt
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Sat, 1st Nov 2008 03:52 Post subject: |
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tried updating... didn't work.
also tried installing SP3 just to see if it'd work... nothing.
maybe i should just reformat... haven't done it once since i got the comp 4+ years ago lol.
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Sat, 1st Nov 2008 04:08 Post subject: |
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mmmh, that is always an option 
you could also check if you have processes running in the background that might interfere with your installation routine. Like burning-software stuff, other little software helpers or anti-virus programs / firewall.
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| Posted: Sat, 1st Nov 2008 04:39 Post subject: |
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no it's not that.. i always keep the bare minimum of applications running.. no software is running and i've disabled my firewall and Avast haven't posed any problems when i played other games a couple of months ago.
anyways seeing as i'm gonna format just wanna ask a quick question.. when formatting it's only the drive u choose to format that gets erased right(of course i'm choosing the one that has windows in it)?
i've got 3 drives hooked up and don't wanna touch the remaining two.
i've done it before but such a long time ago that i forgot lol.
anyways thx for the suggestions.
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Lutzifer
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| Posted: Sat, 1st Nov 2008 04:46 Post subject: |
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yeah, when you install you have the option to choose the partition and / or disk which you want to format and use for installation. If in doubt, unplug the other drives you want to keep (else go by the partition sizes to take the right one. Or the drive letters, but they sometimes are different at the format screen for whatever reasons...)
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