Not to beat a dead horse.....but

[Colder]

So I've installed new sound and video drivers and even down graded the graphics on the game and it's still crashing, only now all my other games are crashing too!?! anyone have any ideas? i'm about to take a 12-gauge to my comp!

[whofriggincares]

A fresh install of Windows will probably do it.

[Talus]

Specs please.

[jdogg88-Fed]

i'm about to take a 12-gauge to my comp!
lmao i already have thats why ive been gone for about 2 weeks

[Colder]

Specs please.

specs are as follows:

MOBO: Asus K8V SE Deluxe 754
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3400
Memory: 2gig Corsair XMS DDR 400 (3200)
GPU: ATI Radeon 9800Pro 256mb AGP
HDD: Western Digital Caviar 250GB
Sound Card: Creative SB Audigy LS
OS: windows xp pro sp2

[John]

dude wut stuff ya got on the background of your computer when you run BF2 or other games? maybe shutting them off?

[Talus]

Yes, turn off ALL unnecessary processes and applications using Task Manager

Check your temperatures...maybe one of your fans aren't working. Look inside your case and make sure ALL of your fans are working...ALL of them including GPU, PSU, CPU, and chassis fans.

If your temps are fine, then do a full spyware and virus scan. If you don't have virus software, go to http://housecall.trendmicro.com

If your system is spyware and virus-free and your temps are fine...your hardware is probably fine...Yikes...you may have to do a re-format and re-install windows.

Your specs are more than enough to play this game very well.

[PBAsydney]

Task manager, its safe to close everything under your windows logon. Don't close anything under "System", "Local Service" or "Network Service" though....

[Colder]

awsome thanks....i was going to reformmat but i'm going to use all of your suggestions first cause i really don't want to..just because i've never done it on a self-built before and my finger gets scared when it goes toward the red button! :p thanks guys we'll see what happens!

[DrunkenPirate]

how long have you had windows installed?

I find that the system gets messy after about 4-6 months.

[Colder]

oh man, it's been probably a year since i first built the comp and installed windows.

[DrunkenPirate]

Yea, I typically call it "OS rot" I need to do mine aswell since I first installed that back in April and it's kinda chugging along right now.

The difference after a reinstall is more than you think.

[Talus]

Yeah, I just reformatted a week or so ago and my system seems MUCH healthier :D

[jdogg88-Fed]

Yea, I typically call it "OS rot" I need to do mine aswell since I first installed that back in April and it's kinda chugging along right now.

The difference after a reinstall is more than you think.
yep i had the same problem ive had except mine got a little worse tho then to top it off my moniter went out

[Colder]

I'm guessing reformatting on a build system is different than reformatting on say a Dell of HP, can anyone give any insight on the process......i just don't wanna mess it up and have a really expensive paper weight sitting next to me when im done.

[Talus]

That won't happen...

The only thing that could 'paperweight' your system would be a bad BIOS flash or extreme overclocking gone wrong.

[Colder]

so what all i have to do is throw my windows CD in the drive and start up? or do i have to do something else to reformat?

[Talus]

You need to enable booting from CD in your BIOS.

Then throw in the Windows CD and boot up off of it.

You'll find everything thing you need during the setup process that occurs.

[Colder]

awsome thank you very much hopefully i'll be up and running by tomorrow morning! :)

[Colder]

woot back up and running...now to install bf and see if it helped :)

BTW merry christmas everyone!

[Colder]

*sigh*......no luck.....even after the reformat the game crashes :confused: :cry: anyone think it might be the graphics card over heating or anything like that....cause that's all thats left is the hardware.

[Pilot Z]

It may have been some of the new BF2 updates. Not all of them are lets say ... spotless. EA say they are updateing but really they are ****ing you off by breaking your pc

[mursht]

ok reformating to me is like giving my pc a shower. it gets all dirty with all this stuff so reformating is like giving it a shower. thats how i c it.

[Colder]

yea i know, what i'm saying is that the reformat didn't help...so i'm trying to get a few ideas on why the game still is crashing.