Soulja Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 I am having this particular issue with Prince of Persia The Sands of Time . The game was working fine initially after installation. However, now when I try to play my system instantly restarts with a slight delay, before loading the menu. My videocard is an ATI RADEON 9600PRO latest drivers and I set fast write off, vpu recover disabled. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BananaMan Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Go to System > Advanced > Startup and Recovery and disable the option that automatically restarts on system failure (BSOD). Tell us what the BSOD reports (if it IS BSOD'ing in the first place, which I suspect it is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulja Posted December 4, 2003 Author Share Posted December 4, 2003 Though I disabled auto restart on system failure, I am forced to restart upon receiving the 'blue screen of death'. Anymore suggestions would be appreciated! :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malechai Veteran Posted December 4, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 4, 2003 soulja.. the point of disabling the autorestart was so that you could report back to us what the Bluescreen tells you. the info will help us help you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolCatBad Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Maybe the game has Different Res/Colour Depth/Refresh Rate settings to Desktop and you have Display Properties set to "Restart witn New Properties". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulja Posted December 4, 2003 Author Share Posted December 4, 2003 soulja.. the point of disabling the autorestart was so that you could report back to us what the Bluescreen tells you. the info will help us help you uh obviously, I did not report anything because the bluescreen is blank! Swampster: ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BananaMan Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 In all my time I've never heard of a blank bluescreen. Very unusual. Well, okay, have you updated to the latest drivers your chipset? Have you installed the patch for Catalyst 3.9's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulja Posted December 5, 2003 Author Share Posted December 5, 2003 Latest bios update and chipset drivers are installed for my Intel? Desktop Board D845HV I don't recall patching the Catalyst 3.9 drivers, could you please provide a direct link? This is really strange but to get the game to play I must reinstall, so it only launches proper subsequent to installation:unsure:: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpu killer Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Well, if it only works well subsequent to install, its probly something with gfx/audio configs , which is screwing it up cause if im correct it only applies the setting in the *.cfg file after the first game load...Am I making sense? Maybe something with the graphics drivers, ive heard catalysdt 3.9'sa re dead buggy :(. Try the patch and see if any luck.. -> Is why altho its crap, cpu killer is glad with his gf4mx440 :D. (soon to be upgraded to a FX5600). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BananaMan Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Patch: http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-cod-7-96-012624e.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulja Posted December 5, 2003 Author Share Posted December 5, 2003 argh, i cannot continue to troubleshoot because it involves a huge risk of complete system failure I think I will quit. Unfortunately, the implications provided in this thread were not real solutions to my problem thnx anyway :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otis Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Rollback your video drivers to a previous version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m2x-ADMlN Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 Did you try overclocking your board befor you went to play your games? If so, your ram timings might not be set right. If you can't restart your computer at all, then reset the CMOS jumper cables (see manual for further instructions.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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