CS Source Crashes My Computer!

[Brad87]

Hey everyone,

I have a slight problem, and that is whenever i attempt to launch counterstrike sourse, it restarts my computer. It shows that background image, but even before the menu comes up, my screen blanks and the computer commences to boot.

my system is as follows

Primary video card: geforce 6200

Secondary video: PCI ATI Rage

Barton XP @ 2500+

768 mb pc3200

winxpMCE 2005

and more than enough hard disk space...

i have DX 9.0c

AND THE MOST UPDATED VIDEO DRIVERS!!

does anyone have an answer?

[Mouldy Punk]

Could be overheating. Next time it reboots, go into the BIOS > Hardware monitor and see what the temps are.

[Brad87]

but the thing is it happens at the very same point just seconds after i double click the icon.... before the menu even appears!.... im doubting its overheatgin cuz i play farcry and BF2 regularly and this has not happened at all before

[_sphinx_]

^Yes that's right

Most probably this is a RAM/BIOS overheating problem. Its spontanious and it happened to me once with UT2k4 and all I had to do was swap the RAMs in their slots and swap the cards in the PCI slots+get a new fan for my processor.

[_sphinx_]

  Stanly_Jay said:

but the thing is it happens at the very same point just seconds after i double click the icon.... before the menu even appears!.... im doubting its overheatgin cuz i play farcry and BF2 regularly and this has not happened at all before

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try reinstalling on another account, if this doesn't work post in steampowered.com in support. Don't update your question too many times though becuase that will send it back to the end of the line

[ROYGBIV]

Fist turn off the automatic restart:

1. Right-click My Computer

2. Properties

3. Advanced

4. Settings under Startup and Recovery

5. Uncheck Automatically Restart

Next give us some information the BSOD that'll pop up instead of the restart.

[_sphinx_]

  ROYGBIV said:

Fist turn off the automatic restart:

1. Right-click My Computer

2. Properties

3. Advanced

4. Settings under Startup and Recovery

5. Uncheck Automatically Restart

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And watch the sparks fly from the processor when it heats up...Trust me m8,this is most probably an overheating problem

[ROYGBIV]

Not necessarily, I had the same problem. It was Counter-Strike: Source doing the damage and no other game I had this problem with.

Looking through the BSOD and other error messages helped me solve the problem.

Also the sparks won't fly, it's a BSOD, it's not an intensive program, the CPU won't overheat displaying a BSOD.

[Unimatrix Xero]

i know what this is as this is what caused the massive mess up when valve added HDR into the game

you need to remove your current drivers using Driver Cleaner Pro, and then download thenvidia 81.85 from the site, install and restart then you will be fine.. there is an artical on thr steam website about it

EDIT: also after installing the drivers i did this:

<direct from steam>

Next open launch options and add -autoconfig

-Open Steam, then Play games

-Right click the Source game, click properties, then Launch options

-add -autoconfig, click ok, then close

[a_witko]

after the hdr demo and steam update... my CS:S stuffed up to... except i could still play.. the graphics were screwed tho.. i could see through walls and stuff.. it made it fun for a few rounds, but then after pwning it was boring... i watched guys walk behind walls and as soon as they came round the corner i awped their asses! mwahahah...

its fixed now btw... the next steam update fixed it.. i dunno what it was tho!

[andI2]

Right... I did evrything you guys said on this page, but still my cs and DoDS reboots my computer.

When I:

Fist turn off the automatic restart:

1. Right-click My Computer

2. Properties

3. Advanced

4. Settings under Startup and Recovery

5. Uncheck Automatically Restart

Then My comp just turns off instead of restarting...

I've reinstalled everything, after a HD format & windows reinstall, It still won't work.

I thinked i'm just screwed...

[brotherrabbit]

You're not missing much anyway :)

[Xerus]

  andI2 said:

Right... I did evrything you guys said on this page, but still my cs and DoDS reboots my computer.

When I:

Fist turn off the automatic restart:

1. Right-click My Computer

2. Properties

3. Advanced

4. Settings under Startup and Recovery

5. Uncheck Automatically Restart

Then My comp just turns off instead of restarting...

I've reinstalled everything, after a HD format & windows reinstall, It still won't work.

I thinked i'm just screwed...

Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Event Viewer -> System, and see if it gives you anything around the time where your computer restarts. I doubt it has anything to do with overheating.

[blackice912 Veteran]

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