PC freeze while installing games...!

Hello all,

Please, i need your help on something that is killing me!

I play games a lot, uncompress files, encode videos everyday without absolutly zero problems, right?.
But when i install a game, any game, from an image with Daemon Tools (from HD or DVD), at some point of the installation, the PC freeze up completely (sometimes at 10%, sometimes at 50%, 80%, etc..).

Yeap, thats the problem! I tried different games, at different times, and sometimes they install on the 2nd try, sometimes takes 4 or 5 tries.
Once the game is installed, i dont have absolutely any problems, i play games at full for hours, etc...

My specs:
q6600@3400
2gb ram 800
Maximus formula
8800gt
SataII WD250gb
TP II 480

Prime and memtest for hours with 0 problems.
Scandisk, norton disk doctor, TuneUp Utilities 2008, smart monitor enable/disable, etc..etc.. without a single problem.
Temp of CPU, Mother, NB and SB and HD are more than fine.

Any idea what could be the problem? or what should i check?
Since i OC my computer, is there any setting that controls (gives juice) to HD controler that i should review?

I did tried once to reset my bios without OC anything and i could install a game that failed 3 times before that one. But i'm not sure if it was luck or not, since after 3 times, sometimes it works! ;(


Any help would be apreciated!

Vini

I already did, but what i did not do was to recreate partitions, i only formated before installed.

I google it a lot before posting here and found another guy in another forum with exactly the same problem. The only problem is that the post was made 4 months ago and noone answers my follow up

Almost every tried was loading the iso from the HD directly, without using the DVD at all.

What i did not tried was to change the HD, i dont have another one and buying one just for fun is not worth it. Is there any program i could use to check mechanism of HD or something more exaustive than bad sectors?

Could be, but i reinstalled windows and therefor DT, well... same version-pack.!
It doesnt hurt clean, check another version and reinstall!!

You know the saying.. (if there is one), sometimes the problem is in front of you and you cant see it!

it does sound like the problem lies with daemon tools, will the games install first time from dvd?

uninstalled, clean and installed the new DT version (i didnt had the latest one) but did not work.

Answering BlackKnight7891, mounting from DVD gives the same problem. I will try to install a game from the dvd directly (original game).

M3d, that could be another try, an old version. Will try also!

If neither work, i will reinstall windows again, but this time, repartitioning again, etc..!

I read on another forum a person with the same problem but with Alcohol, that and my first windows reinstallation makes me think is not DT (that and the fact i reinstalled it a few minutes ago)

Lets see, will try your suggestions!

EDIT: Worth to mention that this problem started a month ago, after i played Mass Effect (not saying it was the game), just saying that i did not had this problem before, it just start recently!

I've encountered the same problem on my new computer rig. The solution I found was to skip Daemon tools al together and use MagicIso instead. That seemed to remedy the problem.

I still don't know why the problem occured in the first place. I as well tried to reinstall Daemon tools, use different hard drives, both for DT and ISO-files. But it seemed to be localized to DT. I tried two versions of DT as well, both encountering the same error.

Ah well, problem solved, at least on my end.

/Infinite squirrel

Hello, There everyone,

I have the same problem, you guys are talking about, but the problem happen to me with both Programs, ALCOHOL and DT.

I tried the old fashion way to unzip the iso and install directly and this WAY ACTUALLY DO WORK very cool. But the problem i have is for other game that have to read from the mounted Drive ...

Anyone have idea what to do ?? or which application should i use rather then using Alcohol or DT ??

Thx

Btw, guys,

I did used the MAGIC ISO application for mounting the Images and the PC finally stopped Freezing.

I guess the problem was due to the Alcohol and the Deamon tool

Finally Magic ISO solve it all

Hey guys,

I too had this same problem with my new rig but I found a solution for me.
I tried daemon tools lite 4.303 and it was happening, then i tried daemon tools lite 4.304 and same thing.
Then I tried an older version of daemon, not a lite version so I tried version 3.47 and that solved my problem.

So the bottom line, use daemon tools, not daemon lite!

Hope this helped.

I have the same problem. When I'm installing games mounted with daemon tools. The pc freezes up and I have to reset it.