Fallen Kell
Diamond Member
Ok, here goes. I am new to XP so this might be something you guys have seen that I have not before. I have a few problems in XP, but the main one that I have been tracing is this one. In a game, I get random lockups/crashs. In my event logs I can see an event for "Bad block" on the cdrom device at the time of the crash. So my first thought is that the CD might be bad. But at the time I did not have a way to verify that. So I decided to see if the same thing happened in another drive. Sure enough I get the same crash in a different device as well. In all I tried 3 different drives, a Sony DVD+/-RW, a NEC DVD+/-RW, and a Philips DVD-ROM.
So I was pretty sure the issue was a bad CD at this point. A friend of mine has the exact same game and let me borrow his copy which works fine on his system. So I load that one up and I STILL get the same crashes! I had him then check on his system to see if my game CD worked on his and it worked fine! Now I really don't know what to do... I am at a loss of what the issue could be.
This was a brand new clean install of XP Pro using the MS Upgrade CD with SP2 already in it. I loaded the latest drivers for my sound card, video card, and motherboard. I even flashed to the latest BIOS. The system is the one in my sig (I think that is updated, it might be missing the new hard drives 2 300GB Seagate SATA's). I get the same issue with any/all versions of the game as well (including expansions). The game is Mechwarrior 4 (hey I am a fan and saw it again on sale so I picked it up finally). Anyway, all of the expansions get the error as well. I tried Microsoft Support, but they were not able to figure it out so far either. They recommended loading the Intel Application Accelerator on my system, but since I am not running my hard drives in RAID, it will not be any help for me (nor will it even install as it was designed for raid performance).
Anyway, I thought I would take the chance and post here to see if anyone else had an issue like this. I also have a random lockup crash, but no events are logged for the crash. I would have thought it could be a memory issue, but I can't believe that it would be an issue especially after the test I put it through (I ran for 68 days straight diskless on a linux live CD distribution, i.e. no hard drive, just a ram drive and the OS info on the CD-Rom... if I had memory issues they would have most definitly poped up during that time, not now). So any ideas?
So I was pretty sure the issue was a bad CD at this point. A friend of mine has the exact same game and let me borrow his copy which works fine on his system. So I load that one up and I STILL get the same crashes! I had him then check on his system to see if my game CD worked on his and it worked fine! Now I really don't know what to do... I am at a loss of what the issue could be.
This was a brand new clean install of XP Pro using the MS Upgrade CD with SP2 already in it. I loaded the latest drivers for my sound card, video card, and motherboard. I even flashed to the latest BIOS. The system is the one in my sig (I think that is updated, it might be missing the new hard drives 2 300GB Seagate SATA's). I get the same issue with any/all versions of the game as well (including expansions). The game is Mechwarrior 4 (hey I am a fan and saw it again on sale so I picked it up finally). Anyway, all of the expansions get the error as well. I tried Microsoft Support, but they were not able to figure it out so far either. They recommended loading the Intel Application Accelerator on my system, but since I am not running my hard drives in RAID, it will not be any help for me (nor will it even install as it was designed for raid performance).
Anyway, I thought I would take the chance and post here to see if anyone else had an issue like this. I also have a random lockup crash, but no events are logged for the crash. I would have thought it could be a memory issue, but I can't believe that it would be an issue especially after the test I put it through (I ran for 68 days straight diskless on a linux live CD distribution, i.e. no hard drive, just a ram drive and the OS info on the CD-Rom... if I had memory issues they would have most definitly poped up during that time, not now). So any ideas?
