I have recently bought Heros of Might & Magic II and have successfully installed it on my laptop but everytime I try to play the game it crashes and I have to open Windows Task Manager to end the Program is it is not responding. I have tried it on my PC which also has windows and it runs fine. Also I have the demo of this game on my laptop which runs fine. how I can stop the program crashing on my latop?
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i have this very bad problem with my laptop, a vaio ar41l, it has been crashing constantly even during a virus scan and all that for the past 2 days, it even crashes in safe mode. so today i called sony support and they told me to do a complete factory settings restore, so i started that, it deleted everything off my hd, now it is on the second step, which is initialising windows for the first time, but on the screen which says please wait, it has got stuck, sort of, and it has been like that for almost an hour now
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just built my first computer, I am a relative noob to all of this. I am having some issues that I am not even sure if is caused by Vista or not. I am crashing out of a couple of programs and I am crashing out of windows- as in the system goes to the blue screen and restarts.
What info do I need to tell you in order to have you help me figure this out?
Nothing is oced.
System is all brand new:
Vista 64 bit
MB GIGABYTE GA-X48T-DQ6 775 X48 RT
Cpu - Q6600
MEM 2Gx2 MUSHKIN 996629 DDR3
HD Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb
GPU SAPPHIRE 4870X2
PSU is 1000w PC Power and Cooling
PU temp is 35c to 45c ish
Does Partition Magic 8 work when installed in Vista?
When running from booted floppies?
I m planning to buy a new computer with Vista Ultimate 64-bit OS. My favourite game ever is Might & Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven, and I wonder if it will play on Vista 64-bit? I've heard many games wont play on 64-bit os, so therefor i wonder if anybody have tried this game?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a magic packet sniffer set up on the PC to check if it is receiving packets. On my networked laptop I am trying to send magic packets. I'm using a wake on lan program from magicpacket.free.fr
So far I've sent packets using 4 different configurations:
1. IP address (192.168.100.150)
subnet mask 255.255.255.255
port 9
mac address (xx-xx-xx-xx-xx)
2. IP address (192.168.100.150)
subnet mask 0.0.0.0
port 9
mac address.............
Rather than upgrade my existing Vista installation to SP1, I decided to reformat the disk and build a brand new installation. I downloaded the stand-alone SP1 file, and applied it immediately I'd finished the Vista installation, BEFORE plugging in any peripherals (not even the network cable).
I then connected the network cable and the various USB peripherals (printer, scanner, etc) one at a time, letting it find and install the relevant drivers. The end result is marvellous. The whole system is stable, clean, fast and responsive, and of course I've got rid of all the little "niggles" that I'd been living with since messing around with my old Vista installation over the past year).
The consensus on this newsgroup seems to be that - if your existing Vista installation is flakey - then SP1 isn't going to be a magic bullet. It won't fix a broken installation - it only fixes shortcomings in Vista itself. If you possibly can, I strongly recommend that you back up all your data, vapourise the existing installation and start over. I think you'll be very pleased with the outcome.
New to Vista and want to repartition the drive in my HP machine to utilize a C, D and E partition (OS, Data, 3rd party software). Partition Magic does not support Vista. Looking at the Disk Management in Vista, It looks like I can shorten the
current drive and add new partitions. The new partitions are Primary Partitions, not Extended as in XP. Is this the correct thing to do in Vista and create multiple Primary Partitions on the disk? I assume if I add a second disk drive it could also contain multiple Primary Partitions.
When I start HoMM everything is okay until i start a game either in multi player or single player. It begins to load and when it is done and about to begin a game it says. "This program has stopped working Windows will notify you if there is a solution".
View 4 Replies View RelatedI wanted to create a partition to test Windows 7 on. At the time, I didn't know Partition Magic didn't play very nice with Vista... or 7 for that matter, so I went ahead and ran it... BAD idea. I suddenly started getting these odd invalid partition table errors and it kept saying it couldn't make the partition. I then restarted the computer which was an even worse idea because then it took me to the grey screen that talked about repairing the OS.
I didn't wanna do that. So instead I just booted into a tiny version of XP from a CD and pulled the files off that I wanted and started to reformat the drive. I then got an error saying it couldn't reformat it. It did erase all the files though..................
i have vista home on my laptop but i have problem with sql server 2005 on vista, i want to divide my disk on two parts and on other to istall windows xp but when i can't use partition magic 8 ,show some problems. how i can now my hard disc.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI wanted to use Partition Magic to partition my hard drive, so I used the boot CD. When I loaded it up, it said that there were 2 errors in my hard drive and it could fix them, so I pressed fix. Unfortunately, I was running Vista and I only know now that they're incompatible. However, now my hard drive is completely screwed! If I plug my hard drive into my computer, my computer refuses to do anything after POST, it doesn't boot a CD or run anything from the hard drive. I unplugged my hard drive and it's booting CDs now, even though my CD was the primary boot device anyway. All I want to do now is just get my hard drive fixed, I have all my data backed up, so I don't care if I lose everything on it!
View 7 Replies View Relatedi want to extend my system partition on Vista, and my friend Bob told me to use EASEUS Partition Master or Partition Magic, but i dont know which one to choose?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've had my computer for about two months now. It came with Windows Vista.
I installed Norton antivirus on it right away. For the past month it's been
crashing almost every other day.
I have no idea what is going on. I asked a Dell tech and they said to run
startup repair, but I'm still having problems.
Gigabyte ultra durable 3
intel core 2 quad
8gb g.skill ram
evga 9800 gt
sound blaster audigy se
just put together this computer and it ran good for the first few days, now it's to the point where it won't even boot up. It first crashed on me when loading up a game, then it crashed during the middle of updating. It crashes in start up sometimes and it freezes when I'm trying to run the memory diagnostics tool. The blue screen keeps giving me this message "Driver irql not less or equal" and I have no idea what's wrong, can anyone help? Sorry if this is kinda blunt I'm typing this on my phone bc now i don't have a computer to work from.
i think ive got a virus but not sure
msn keeps crashing when i click sign in
internet explorer wont open so now im using chrome
and now avg anti-virus isnt working properly, residet shield wont run and email scanner wont run and it wont scan my pc either,
could it be virus from a email as i get tonnes of spam but i always delete them.
any idea of this error res://ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm#.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just don't get why "YOU" have to find resolutions to Microsoft's problems its very upsetting. Its out of the box about 5 days.
Item Value
OS Name Microsoft? Windows Vista? Home Premium
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name Southern Comfort
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Turion(tm) X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM-74, 2200 Mhz, 2
Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.35, 12/4/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:Windows
System Directory C:Windowssystem32
Boot Device DeviceHarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
User Name Southern Comfort
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.75 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.18 GB
Total Virtual Memory 7.68 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.79 GB
Page File Space 4.04 GB
Page File C:pagefile.sys
.......
I have neverwinter nights loaded on my pc with both expansion packs.
it also has a hard update (i.e. manually downloaded .exe file) as teh self updater wouldn't find it, but now it keeps crashing on loadup where it shows developer logos.
I just updated my windows Vista and when I then tried starting my computer afterwards it went into repair-mode. I tried to repair the flaws, but apparently it couldn't fix it all. It still goes directly to an entirely black screen with only my cursor marker on it, when I was supposed to write my password. I've already tried to start it in every safe-mode available? I installed it yesterday (15/11), as soon as i could.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy Vista works fine in safe mode. I uninstalled almost every program I ever installed, I wrote down all of the processes that were running in safe mode and then rebooted and killed each process one by one, replicating the crash inciting event...opening any folder, after killing each process until I was down to the processes that were running in safe mode...and the ones that kept restarting themselves and I can't get the problem fixed.
I am using an HP Pavilion dv9000 running the pre-installed Vista Home Premium. The HP rebuild disk boots up into a repair screen, says it is repairing and if it works it will restart normally, which it does but I still have the same problem. I have run every anti virus/anti virus I could get my hands on (none of which seem to be getting rid of this Virtumonde piece of %*&, which is the least of my worries at this point unless it is causing the crashes).
I am about ready to take my laptop to the shooting range with me or upgrade to Windows XP because I have honestly not seen a single value added by Vista. If anyone has any ideas I would gratefully listen. If not, I think I am shooting this hard drive (really) and restarting with XP or some flavor of **ix and running XP in VMware.
I bought my pc about a year and half ago. Had an x86 Vista Ultimate edition on it and it all worked fine. 4 GB RAM and a good CPU made it run smooth. I then decided to upgrade my RAM to 8 GB and also upgraded my Windows with it to an x64 Vista Ultimate. Ever since I upgraded, my pc has been crashing like mad. When I play games my pc crashes constantly in a timeframe ranging from 20mins to 2 hours.
I freezes completely and it ends up in me having to force hard reset my pc. I don't know what the problem is atm and in all fairness it's driving me mad. Sometimes I boot my pc, I check mails and whoops, frozen and have to reboot. Is it possible that there's a compatibility problem with the RAM and my x64 Vista?
i get on websites (example: facebook, Internet) sometimes my computer will crash (bluescreen of death). i have ran super deep scan for viruses on my computer with bitdifender internet security 2009 and has not found any viruses. i am also sure it is not my registry. windows says the problem is related to my ethernet, i don't know how. anyways, i gathered all my system information that i could.............
ok i have too many of these. After i installed Vista SP2, i keep getting explorer crashes. It's sporadic. I open my computer, boom, it hangs and then i need to hit reset. It's happening alot.
there everything has been fine until the last 2 days but now if i click and drag somethng to recycle bin i just get a box come up saying deleting and then the box just sits there if i click cancel or close it just says cancelling and then i have to end the task through task manager.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI Have Sims 2 and it worked perfectly fine month ago and all of sudden it keeps crashing.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhenever I attempt to sign onto AOL through their software, the entire system crashes. Spyware and Antivirus scans came back negative. I tried using different versions of the AOL software but the crashing still occurred. I did a restore back to a time before the crashes started, did not work. Updated all my drivers, still no success. Everything else works just fine. I can connect to the Internet, surf with IE, download files, no problem.
I finally deleted my broadband connection, deleted the network/lan card using device manager. Restarted the computer, Vista recognizes the Lan card and automatically installs the drivers. I created a brand new connection in the Network center and tried to sign onto AOL; it finally works! Here's the kicker, though. I restart the computer just to make sure everything works and guess what? When I try to sign onto AOL, the computer crashes!
I did not make one single change between the time I successfully logged onto AOL till the time I restarted and it began crashing again. It certainly appears to be something wrong on the networking end of things, I just don't know what. It looks like the AOL software is accessing some network file/setting that then sets off the crash. Is it the card itself, the drivers, some Vista update that didn't install correctly. I am at my wits end. Short of a restore back to the factory install point, I don't know what to do.
I have Vista Ultimate 64bit. I have all the updates including SP1 downloaded from Microsoft site. Up until yesterday everything has been working fine for the past month since I built a new system. Now all of a sudden my computer is crashing on me. No BSOD. Just shuts down and reboots. Last night this occured 5 times in the space of 4 hours..
Looking in my events log all I can see occuring at the times of the crashes is this information: Code integrity determined that the image hash of a file is not valid. The file could be corrupt due to unauthorized modification or the invalid hash could indicate a potential disk device error.
File Name: DeviceHarddiskVolume1WindowsSystemdrivers cpip.sys
I don't use windows firewall as I use the firewall built into Trend Micro Internet Security 2008. Checking though that programs logs shows nothing happening at the time of the crashes. After googling this and looking on Microsoft's site I am stumped at what I can do to resolve this. I do have windows updates on automatic and I recall an update occuring 2 days ago.
I have a Samsung DVD Rom which I have put into my new PC from my old one. It's only about 3 years old and worked fine in my old PC. Vista found the driver necessary and installed it. Worked fine. Last night I tried to use Roxio to copy a cd which ended up with Roxio crashing. I had to reboot. Once rebooted, Vista told me it was installing a device driver for a Semwung DVD-ROM$SD-616E$ATA device. This has left me scratching my head as to why my Samsung is now a Semwung! Any ideas? Also, I have noticed over the last couple of days that someone/thing keeps changing my homepage. I've run Spybot and my antivirus scanner and had 5 tracking cookies and have got rid of them. Is there any way I can find out what keeps changing my homepage? Once whatever it is tries to change my homepage and I try to use Explorer to surf the web, I get directed to a Norton page telling me something's tried to change my homepage but won't tell me what or what to. I don't think my current problems are connected in any way
View 4 Replies View RelatedIt was a nice day (September 2007) and i opened my Windows Vista 32bit Home Premium Laptop, my desktop appeared just fine and while Nod32 was trying to load, my wagtail mouse stopped moving its tail, few seconds later, the "famous" BSOD appeared!
I didnt care really since i could format, ok then i formated. 5 months after the format i was having some crashes, e.g i clicked on Photoshop and the taskbar froze then the same happened to the start button and then the whole desktop! I restarted but i couldn't use Photoshop anymore. Few days later i dragged and dropped something in the recycle
bin and guess what? Yea thats right! I got a Blue Screen! I was freaked out and mad! So then i formated again. Now 2 months later, May of 2008 i opened my laptop and Nod warned me that the dll files of Adobe Flash, Nero and PowerDVD were viruses and that the svchost.exe tried to open them. I ignored them since i knew that the svchost.exe goes crazy sometimes. Then it stopped doing it but i started having crashes like the one i said before the second BSOD. Today i received 4 more crashes but the last one was deadly! I mean like, i only clicked on windows live messenger and vista made that BEEP sound, then everything was frozen,even the mouse!
Whenever I'm chatting on IMVU, or doing anything which requires lot of 3D, my screen flickers 2 or 3 times, I see everything freezed, the screen turns black, and then most of the time, after a while, it turns back and gives me a balloon message on the taskbar that the graphics' driver stopped responding and is restored.
It happens a lot.
And it gives on my nerves a lot, because when the screen returns, all 3D using programs are not responding anymore, untill I try to close it, and tell Windows Vista to wait untill it responds, then it takes about a minute or 2 to see motion again.
Sometimes the error doesn't happen at all. Sometimes it happens every 5 minutes. And I even had a blue screen once.
The only thing I was able to read was that the graphics' driver stopped responding and Windows was unable to restore it.
I tried reinstalling the driver.
I own the newest version of the driver, so update is not possible.
