Blue screen error with BF2 disk ONLY!!

[Guest]

Have been using Vista for about a 11 days now and the whole time BF2 was
running , although not very well because of the screwy driver situation with
Nvidia Creative and Vista , but it WAS running.

Now EVERY time I insert my BF2 disk (and BF2 won't run without it) the
computer Bluscreens with a 0x000000E3 "A Thread tried to release a resource
it did not own".....WTF??

So I turned off autorun and it will NOT recognize my retail BF2 disk that
works in any other computer I put it in AT ALL , it won't even show a disk in
the DVD drive!!

ALL my other games work INCLUDING the BF2 Special forces disk with no
problems and BF2142 , DOD:S , COD 2....except for crappy performance because
of piss poor drivers.

I tried a system restore and a system repair , it said that system repair
could NOT fix my operating system and to contact my system administrator.

I installed my XP disk on another drive (DUAL BOOT) in the SAME computer ,
installed BF2 in the SAME DVD drive that Vista gives me the error in and
played the game without issues.



My question is , what the heck could have gone so wrong that my VISTA
crashes my computer with this "did not own" BS error and then tells me that
it cannot be fixed.

And should I just start over and reinstall Vista? or scrap the whole Vista
thing and keep only XP until more support is available?

I keep asking myself if this happened 6 months down the road out of the
blue on an otherwise fine running system am I going to have to reinstall the
entire thing to play a game?
Please help.

PS: most everything else works just fine , I just don't get what happened.

 

[Dale White]

Sounds odd, My initial thought is that BF2's CD\DVD protection is now giving
Vista problem. I'd look to see if there are any firmware updates for your CD
or DVD drive. Might look for a motherboard bios update as well. Though I
suspect the final answer, since it did work at one point, is to format
re-install as something must have gotten whacked out.

By the way, did you set a system restore ? Any chance you could revert back
to a previous install ?

 

[Guest]

I have updated to the newest BIOS already BUT I haven't tried the Firmware
updater!!

And come to think of it BF2 is on DVD , STEAM and Special forces are both
on CD ROM!! AND I was getting a ACPI error from my burning software before
this happened!!

I hope this works!! thanks!!

 

[Guest]

Well my DVD drive did not have any newer fiirmware available , well I
removed my Vista install and am going back to XP till new drivers come out ,
too many problems.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Dale \Mad_Murdock\ White]

Sorry about your misfortune, but I honest think that's the best decision,
not just for oyu but for alot of people. Unless you have the option to dual
boot, that's really the only way to test out a new OS.

 

[Guest]

At this point I totally agree Mad man , good advice.

 

[Dale \Mad_Murdock\ White]

Not that I'm encoraging Game pirating, but have you looked at using a Game
Disc emulator ? I use Alcohol 120%, though it's not that good with newer DVD
based games. But it allows you to make a clone of your disc on your hard
drive and mount it in a virtual CD drive. I prefer it because I get to keep
the original disc in it's case.
There are also no CD\DVD cracks you could try and see if that makes the
difference. Again, I don't advocate the stealing of games or any software,
but sometime the copy protection causes more problems for honest users than
it does at stopping pirates.

 

[Guest]

Yeah I saw that disk emulator fix idea at the Planet BF2 forums and I guess
that one you use does work with BF2 , but I it was working properly for a
little over a week and I want to use it the way it was meant to work.

There has to be some sort of problem with the ASPI layer (whatever that is)
when I install vista on my PC. I get about 4 ASPI errors/warnings in my event
vewier ever time I start Vista.

I am going to give it a month or untill the better Nvidia Creative drivers
come out , maybe by then MS and or ASUS will have some fixes out as well.

thanks for the ideas!!

 

[Guest]

I highly doubt this is the problem but what shape are your BF2 install cd's?
Even to the most IT educated person sometimes they find smudges or something
that would interfere with the install.

I also agree with making a vitual CD drive.

 

[Unicron]

I actually had to go to an external DVD Rom due to problems with the
internal. BF2/2142 were BSOD'ing and rebooting my machine when I inserted
it.