I got problems...computer problems!

Pr0phecyPr0phecy Join Date: 2002-04-04 Member: 381Members
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k...you guys r my last hope...i have 2 problems with my pc and i will give all u need so u can try n fix it

Problem #1:When i put my computer on full acceleration,it ses it has to restart computer...when it restarts,2 seconds b4 windows supposed to appear i get this ANNOYING message

Windows Protection Error.Restart your Computer

Press Any Key to Continue

If i press any key it ses : its now safe to shutdown and if i restart it ses the same message...over...and over...and over...and over again!I NEED GRAPHICS!!!!!!!!!!I have a G450 Millenium Matrox 32mb video card,if u need more info post reply

Problem #2:When i open counter-strike or action half-life they just close after playing 30 seconds...well counter-strike closes b4 loading with no error messages and it worked fine yesterday

Thx for listening hope u can help cuz these 2 problems could affect my ability to play ns  <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->  <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->  <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    this probably wont do it, but ad -nocdaudio to your HL shortcut.
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  • Pr0phecyPr0phecy Join Date: 2002-04-04 Member: 381Members
    Hmmm i remembered when i had DoD,i coudnt play some maps like omaha and maps like that,until i got opengl and everything worked,now if i could only fix that problem =(
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  • pielemuispielemuis Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 72Members, NS1 Playtester
    matrox always had buggy openGL drivers, i used to have a g200. try downloading the latest drivers if you haven't already. You could always try the matrox techsupport, maybe it's a known problem.
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  • Pr0phecyPr0phecy Join Date: 2002-04-04 Member: 381Members
    its the first thing i tried,tech support costs me with long distance and i cant even get on teh forums
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  • nerve_GSnerve_GS Join Date: 2002-03-10 Member: 297Members
    When I had a Matrox G400, I had loads of problems that were unresolved by new drivers. I also had the windows protection error on startup, and various other issues, and the only way I could sort them out was I had to go through the startup option in msconfig and also the options of what to run at the menu you can get just after the bootup screen (press f8 or something). Turn all these options off, then turn them on one by one, and some random configuration of things starting up seemed to work for me, then it broke again and I got a GeForce 2 Ti. The moral of the story is, Matrox cards aren't very user friendly and very buggy with windows.
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  • GingerGinger Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1043Members
    i had problems with my computer but they are now fixed <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> but i have now one problem... every thing on the net seems big and i cant make it smaller  <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
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  • Llama_KillerLlama_Killer Join Date: 2002-07-30 Member: 1029Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--SiLeNcEr-7+Sep. 15 2002,06:54--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (SiLeNcEr-7 @ Sep. 15 2002,06:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I guess my only option is to bum one off of my friend cuz theres no way I'm buying windows again, esp not xp due to the fact that hl and many other older games that I happen to like don't agree with it.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I have xp and hl and all my other games wrok well even very well with it....


    And as a reply to your previous post:


    <b><span style='color:red'>LOADS LLAMA GUN, AIMS,</span><span style='color:gold'><u>
    BLAM</span></b></u>
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  • Sgt_XSgt_X Join Date: 2002-03-01 Member: 261Members
    XP doesn't like some of my REAL old DOS based games but HL and similar all work fine.
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  • GingerGinger Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1043Members
    i still can not make any thing smaller so what should i do? it is well annoying when i go on fourms coz i have to scroll down so much <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
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  • HBNayrHBNayr Join Date: 2002-07-13 Member: 930Members
    Ginger: This may not be the issue, but it's best to check it, anyways.  Go to Control Panel>Display>Settings, and make sure you're not set at 640x480 or something.  Jump to 800x600, or, even better, 1024x768 if you are.

    -Ryan!


    He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
    -- George Bernard Shaw
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    w00t!  All my other games work!  And the lockups aren't happening as often now.  Still having probs with hl though.  And yeah, I built my comp from scatch but the fact that both a newer game (NFS hot pursuit) and an older game (Jedi Knight) work kinda rules that out.  I think the lockups were happening because the "all in one" driver I got from nvida wasn't fully compatible with my card, strange.  The other thing is that after a while with windows it just screws up and you have to format, this happens to everybody after they go long enough without reformatting, don't tell me it hasn't happened to you.  Xp has no sound emulation for dos, too bad I still play duke3d sometimes.
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  • Pr0phecyPr0phecy Join Date: 2002-04-04 Member: 381Members
    i join my own thread to fix someone elses problem...arg....ginger u want the solution?well u joined the wrong thread but here it is anyway : go to the toolbar of internet explorer (if ur using it)go to view>>Text Size>>then choose ur appropriate size...and if that dosent work go to propreties in the background>>appearance and look that u dont extra large fonts cuz i had that problem before

    Now can we plz get back to my problem plz  <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    lol, I already told him that <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo--> but I forgot about the one in display properties.  But really, your problem is nothing compared to mine.  Its made me bitter, now I hope NS gets delayed for a long time, just so no one gets to play it before me  <!--emo&:asrifle:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':asrifle:'><!--endemo-->  <!--emo&:siege:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/siege.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':siege:'><!--endemo-->  <!--emo&:bob:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bob.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':bob:'><!--endemo-->
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  • Jedi_Master_HayatoJedi_Master_Hayato Join Date: 2002-08-15 Member: 1173Members
    Ahh, more problems.  Try this one for size...

    I have Win 98 2nd edition(currently updated with recent MS updates), and have been unable to run my disk defragmentation utility for 240 some odd days.  I did this just a few days ago:  I changed my <a href="http://digitalblasphemy.com" target="_blank">Digital Blasphemy</a> wallpaper to a blank screen to take a load off my desktop, closed all non-essential applications using the task manager until I had about two apps remaining (probably Explorer and Systray).  I then ran disk defragmenter on my partitioned 20GB HDD through the night, and in the morning, it said that it had only done 10% of the "C" Drive, and not even touched the "D" Drive.  It then said that the drive contents changed, and restarted the "C" drive.  Again it said that it had done 10% for about 10 more minutes before I turned my machine off.

    Any Ideas of what I'm doing wrong? <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->    or need to change? <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->

    Maybe once NS is released, I can let <!--emo&:tiny:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tiny.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':tiny:'><!--endemo--> rumage through my OS for sustinance, and then I can build myself the new machine that I already need...
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  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    Pr0ph, i was asking you.

    Did you build your computer yourself, or was it a pre-built, like a Dell?
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  • HBNayrHBNayr Join Date: 2002-07-13 Member: 930Members
    Jedi Master Hayato: try running Disk Defrag in Safe Mode instead.  With Windoze 98, just hold down the Ctrl key as your computer is booting up, and it should bring you straight into Safe Mode.  Minimum drivers, and no TSRs.  Run Disk Defrag there, and everything should be swell.

    As for the video card problems, I'm sorry, but I'm just not sure.  I would contact Matrox through e-mails.  Make sure to be as kind as possible in the e-mail, and you should get a response of some kind fairly quick.  It's always worked for me.

    -Ryan!


    Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
    -- Nikita Khrushchev
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  • XHydraliskXHydralisk Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 945Members
    DELETE CONFIG.SYS

    ... no don't

    maybe you didn't press the right any key
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    rofl, its just that that's happened to me before and I associated it with my own comp due to deja-vu.  And Hayato: If safe mode doesn't work you could try deleting some things, also make sure that there aren't any scheduled tasks.
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  • Pr0phecyPr0phecy Join Date: 2002-04-04 Member: 381Members
    did anyone build there own pc here???i got it already made...save myself the trouble...matrox cant b contacted by mail i dont know why...only email adress is for the forums which i cant get on cuz they dont accept hotmail n address's like that
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  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    I've built 2 PC's for myself, One's an athlon 1200, the other's an athlon XP 1800, which is what I'm on now.

    Ina addition, i've also built 2 addiotional ones for friend's, and I've repaired and tech-supported for countless clueless teachers and parents of friends.

    Yes, yes, the combined force of my 2 Gigahertz machines, and my 1337ness does, officially, Own your ###.
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