Major hardware failure after 164 crash
mikef
Join Date: 2011-02-19 Member: 82572Members
Join Date: 2011-02-19 Member: 82572Members
So i've been playing since the beta started, each release has gotten progresively worse, performance wise... i gave 164 a try earlier today, i wasnt able to get past the ready room without a complete system crash. Upon restarting the system my IDE drives no longer respond, and i'm dead in the water as far as getting all my files back since i've only 1 pc. I can only hope that everythign is still intact.
i'm running on a SATA backup drive atm.
I hope this was just a coincidence, but i just wanted to throw it out there as a warning to a potentially serious problem.
This really pains me to do, but i'm just going to have uninstall and wait for an official release from here on out, i cant risk things like this
i'm running on a SATA backup drive atm.
I hope this was just a coincidence, but i just wanted to throw it out there as a warning to a potentially serious problem.
This really pains me to do, but i'm just going to have uninstall and wait for an official release from here on out, i cant risk things like this
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Stuff like that isn't really supposed to happen anymore, as applications are depending on (or are required) to let the OS do the low-level legwork for them. So I'm going to go ahead and say you probably had a hardware failure that happened to coincide with you playing NS2.
totally understand waiting until the game is much smoother before returning to try it.
Stuff like that isn't really supposed to happen anymore, as applications are depending on (or are required) to let the OS do the low-level legwork for them. So I'm going to go ahead and say you probably had a hardware failure that happened to coincide with you playing NS2.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
this! 100% agree
player: I'm running on 32bit xp
i called in a favor and i've got a backup running the IDE drive, everything seems ok for the time being. the cable is fine, the drive is ok, but the actual socket seems fried.
Now i gotta find a new game to play in the meantime, damn i was actually really enjoying 163 the other day heheh
It's hard to break components with software unless you're deliberately trying to, and even then it isn't exactly simple.
if you had the opposite, then it had nothing with software to do.
i'd guess
your PSU was dying
cheap or wrongly applied thermal paste (on gpu or cpu) drying out and conducting less, increasing temperature.
or, since your HDD died, maybe it was slowly dying, getting worse and worse at throughput. was the whole computer getting slower?
on another note, i've actually had 2 GPU's getting hardware failure caused by actions by software.
first was a asus 5900ultra, i exited grim fandango, screen goes black as usual before desktop is visible, but now the desktop was filled with periodic screen artifacts.
same when i rebooted and saw the BIOS picture.
second was a msi 6800gt which crashed while playing hl2. fifth crash after 2 days of use showed periodic artifacts in BIOS and Win again.
then i changed my PSU before getting a msi 7800gs as replacement.
(which also crashed after 9 months because of retarded Innovatek watercooling block and i got that special gainward 7800GS card for 2/3 reduced price)
after this i will never again buy anything MSI or overpriced and crappy Innovatek
If you look at the high-quality "for-gaming" boards then you'll see nice little heat-sinks/fans/heat-pipes on these critical chips. So just something to keep in mind.