Commie Killer
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Couple months ago, my bro bought a PC from dell. The spec are:

E7200
ATI Radeon HD2400XT
2GB of RAM(do not know type at this time, trying to figure that out now)
Vista, pretty sure its 32 bit

His problem is, besides being rather slow, some games crash on start up or around that time. The games that work are Frets on Fire, Battlefield 2, and any internet games, but the games that don't work are Trials 2 Second Edition Demo, GTA San Andreas, GTA Vice City, and Tomb Raider Underworld demo. Programs such as Microsoft Word and Itunes and Firefox work fine. The games that don't work always crash on start up. No other programs have a problem. He does have the McAffe Virus scanner as it comes default with the PC with a couple months of coverage. Im gonna try to delete that.


If we cant find a fix we are gonna reinstall Vista, but that is a last resort as he has a bunch of music and movies downloaded doesn't want to have to download them all again.

Last edited by Commie Killer (2008-12-06 14:43:05)

jsnipy
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virus scan
spybot

perhaps run memtest for good measure
JoshP
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Commie Killer wrote:

If we cant find a fix we are gonna reinstall Vista, but that is a last resort as he has a bunch of music and movies downloaded doesn't want to have to download them all again.
back up documents to a separate HDD/partition
The_Sniper_NM
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You must have installed the game on the wrong side of the hard drive. You have to mount the game right side up.
JoshP
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The_Sniper_NM wrote:

You must have installed the game on the wrong side of the hard drive. You have to mount the game right side up.
duuuuude what the fuck?
Commie Killer
Member
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jsnipy wrote:

virus scan
spybot

perhaps run memtest for good measure
Always had this problem, even before we connected his computer to the internet. And I installed AVG a few days ago which is picking up nothing.

The_Sniper_NM wrote:

You must have installed the game on the wrong side of the hard drive. You have to mount the game right side up.
What? According to him, when he installed it, he just put it in the DVD drive, and clicked install(talking about San Andreas here). He did the same thing for BF2 and that works.

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