What I call - "The Blue Screen of Death"

[Guest]

Hello all,

I have an alienware media centre pc with XP SP2 and just of late I am not
able to play games on it as I was before. I haven't play any games on the pc
in over a week and in between this I had completed XP updates to which there
were 13. I update regularly BTW. Every time I insert the Game CD the
machine starts the game with the relevant main menu. Then after clicking on
play etc the PC gives me the blue screen of death (as I call it) and reboots.
This action does not happen with any other software e.g Office runs
perfectly.

Urgent help required as my son is also bugging me to play his games and can't.

Regards

 

[Guest]

Do any updates relate to DirectX? This technology is often important to games.

You can uninstall most updates from Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs.

Alternatively, you could do a System Restore to a point before the trouble
started.

 

[Guest]

Hi and thanks for the reply,

I do not think any of the last updates have anything to do with the Direct X
- I was only playing them about a week ago and everything was fine and now
any game I put and run creates the BSOD and reboots !

Regards

 

[Dan Farrell Davis]

Hello -- there are many people reporting BSOD after updates last week.

Look further on this group and other groups here.

From the reading I've done, it is a driver issue with either video or IDE,
prolly the latter.

Good luck!

 

[Rock]

Hello all,

I have an alienware media centre pc with XP SP2 and just of late I am not
able to play games on it as I was before. I haven't play any games on the
pc
in over a week and in between this I had completed XP updates to which
there
were 13. I update regularly BTW. Every time I insert the Game CD the
machine starts the game with the relevant main menu. Then after clicking
on
play etc the PC gives me the blue screen of death (as I call it) and
reboots.
This action does not happen with any other software e.g Office runs
perfectly.

Urgent help required as my son is also bugging me to play his games and
can't.

What is the error on the blue screen? Were any of the updates a video
driver? If so try a driver rollback from Device Manager. (As an aside,
never allow hardware driver updates from the windows update site unless it's
a MS manufactured device.).

If not that try removing the updates one at a time through add/remove
programs, and if all of them have been removed and still a problem, do a
system restore to a date when the system was working.

You could also look through the posts in the windows update newsgroup to see
if there are any similars.

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...655-a5d5-4c07-bdb0-90caf9f30c42&lang=en&cr=us