My Sob Story
boberto
Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6306Members
Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6306Members
<div class="IPBDescription">a tale of NS and harddrive failure</div> so im playing NS 2 days ago... just joined a server, the marine base had just been annihilated, but they had built up a backup comm chair and an IP in port engine... everyone spawns, but no one will comm... so i say what the hell, i know how to comm to some extent, ill give it a try. I put up an armory... more IPs, expand a couple resource nodes.. get an arms lab, then start getting yelled at for not sieging a hive. im about to put down a TF once i get the resources, when it says "vote to eject commander started"
at this point, my halflife freezes. not quite a hard lockup, not yet anyways. i try to ctrl alt del and it does nothing, i alt tab and try to close it... still nothing. then comes the hard lockup. i thought this was weird, cause i havent had a hard lockup ever since ive gotten windows xp... then out of nowhere A BLUE SCREEN. this was no ordinary blue screen though, it basically told me that it had to shut down to prevent physical damage to my hardware. upon rebooting all i see is... primary boot failure. yeah, so i thought my harddrive had completely failed, i did managed to recover all my stuff and get back in action though, so its not such a terrible ending. the point of this story, however, is just to say....
screw you guys who tried to vote me out as commander, effectively freezing my halflife, and costing me 2 days of productivity and a nearly missed programming assignment! JERKS! that is all.
at this point, my halflife freezes. not quite a hard lockup, not yet anyways. i try to ctrl alt del and it does nothing, i alt tab and try to close it... still nothing. then comes the hard lockup. i thought this was weird, cause i havent had a hard lockup ever since ive gotten windows xp... then out of nowhere A BLUE SCREEN. this was no ordinary blue screen though, it basically told me that it had to shut down to prevent physical damage to my hardware. upon rebooting all i see is... primary boot failure. yeah, so i thought my harddrive had completely failed, i did managed to recover all my stuff and get back in action though, so its not such a terrible ending. the point of this story, however, is just to say....
screw you guys who tried to vote me out as commander, effectively freezing my halflife, and costing me 2 days of productivity and a nearly missed programming assignment! JERKS! that is all.
Comments
Have you been able to reproduce this, by getting kicked out again and seeing if it dies? If so, it might be something to look into. if not, it's more likely twitchy hardware.
I can't remember exactly what happened, because it was a few weeks ago now, but I know I was playing a LAN game with RCBOT's when it froze and I had to cut the power to my computer.. And when I restarted, just before it would normally load windows the blue screen would come up saying something like "Windows will not start to prevent damage to hardware" and it did this everytime I rebooted, so I was forced to format and re-install windows... Luckily my HD is partitioned so I didnt lose much...
Once again: If you can reliably reproduce the bug, it's a likely candidate for the <b>Bug reports</b> forum.. not General Discussion.