Blue Screen and System Reboots, need help please

[ladic]

Something weird is happing to my PC.

So after a couple of years of not playing Battlefield 1942, I decided to reinstall and play for old times sake.

Weird thing is, Sometimes right after a loeading a multiplayer map, I get a Blue Screen with no Text and the the system reboots.
Sometimes I can play for a while and then reboots.

At first I thought maybe Video Card Drivers? so I downgraded to drivers from January 2006 and I still get the same problem.

Then I thought maybe overheating of the system? But I can run the Counter Strike Source which is more graphics intensive without a hitch.

then I thought maybe bad installation, so I reinstalled the game, and still same thing happened.


This is my system:

Ati radeon x800pro 256mb
athlon xp2500+
wd 250gb sata hd
windows xp



so anyone know why this could be? and only happaning to this game?

 

[eRazor]

Windows XP SP2 with all critical updates?

 

[ladic]

aye, I have sp2 installed and all of it updates.

 

[eRazor]

Update your sound drivers to the latest possible and unplug any USB devices and test that. A number of friends have had this problem and it's turned out to be sound related, or a USB device.

Beyond that, I can't say.

 

[ladic]

ok, to install latest sound drivers, do I need to uninstall the old ones first? or just install over it?

 

[eRazor]

That depends on the sound card. If there _is_ an uninstall (some cards don't have one), I would do so before installing the new ones.

 

[ladic]

switched to latest drivers and no dice, same problem.

 

[eRazor]

And you have nothing USB plugged in?

 

[ladic]

i only had my usb mouse plugged.

i took some screenshots from the event viewer

do you know what this errors could mean?



http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/7073/event1bk4.jpg


http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3412/event2hd0.jpg

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/245/event3gz7.jpg

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4012/event4bn6.jpg

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3106/event5ul6.jpg

 

[eRazor]

That should go away if you reinstall Creative Player.

 

[ladic]

so is that the problem? cause I noticed as soon as I crash and reboot, and go the event view a new one of those errors appears.


so how do I get rid of the creative player?

 

[ladic]

BTW i dont even remember installing creative player

 

[eRazor]

If you have a Creative Labs sound card, the install generally sneaks Creative Player onto your machine.

 

[ladic]

so how do i go about fixing this problem?

 

[ladic]

well weird thing, played single player for about 15 minutes no problem, switch to online game and get the blue screen and reboot.

 

[ladic]

 

[eRazor]

well weird thing, played single player for about 15 minutes no problem, switch to online game and get the blue screen and reboot.

It's a known issue. There's lots on the internet about it if you'd care to Google for it.

 

[ladic]

i have googled like crazy and cant find an answer.

i miss bf1942

 

[ladic]

here is a new shot of a screenshot I took after playing again and got the reboot (I was able to play for about 15 minutes):

 

[ladic]

ok, its not y firewall either, cause I installed it on my laptop and had no problems, altough my laptop sucks, so its basically unplayables since I get awful framerates.

 

[rivalneighbour]

Disable Automatically Restart.
System Properties - Advanced - [Startup and Recovery]Settings

Remove the checkmark from "Automatically Restart" in the System Failure section.

Did you apply any Battlefield1942 game patches? maybe in the game options you should set the monitor refresh rate to 60 or enable vsync.

 

[ladic]

i did apply patches, and have uninstalled and re-installed the game twice.

also, i have tried with all refresh rates that are possible in the game.

haven tried the vsync thing, were do I do that?

 

[ladic]

do you think it cam somehow still be the soundcard? im thinking of removing it and try with onboard audio.

 

[ladic]

I removed and uninstalled the sound card, and left it with nvidia onboard audio, and still no dice.

Then removed the video drivers again and installed the ones that came on the cd and still the same thing...

im all out of ideas...