My Game is Bork, but I'm pretty sure it's not my fault.
trlaavh:
Haha, yeah, except for that I meant that the walls and stuff of my sims' homes could burn. Not mine! Gah, that would SUCK!!! lolz.
They left they're computers, and just screamed at the flames.
Zazazu:
Quote from: trlaavh on 2008 October 02, 23:20:26
Haha, yeah, except for that I meant that the walls and stuff of my sims' homes could burn. Not mine! Gah, that would SUCK!!! lolz.
They left they're computers, and just screamed at the flames.
And I was responding to Yecats, not you.
Gastfyr:
Thanks everyone for your advice. So far, my husband and are are pretty sure it's not the nVidia crasch bug, since that apparently goes to an empty bule screen, but my BSOD always has writing on it. We updated our drivers anyway.
We also did a full defrag of both harddrives and then ran a test for bad memory sectors. That memory test took all day and all night because it kept resarting once it was finnished. Eventually, we just exited out of it, because it was just going on and on forever with no end in sight. Not sure what it means, but it had found over 700 errors when we finally stopped it. :-\
As hilarious as that post about random disk borkeness is, I'm not sure if that could really be my problem. My husband downloaded the cracked version of Sims2 and all EPs/Sps, so if we have a randomly borken version, then so does everyone else who downloaded that same cracked version, right?
Anyway, I was just running the Sims 2 and was in CAS. Got a BSOD, and what it said was total gibberish to me, but maybe it means something to some of you? After the same speell it always says about restarting your computer and safe mode and stuff, it said this:
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*** Stop: 0x0000008E, 0x80505902, 0xBA730C88, 0X00000000
That's the only part of the BSOD that ever changes, so yeah. Didn't mean anything to me or my husband.
witch:
Try googling just the string of numbers, or even just the middle two groups, or one of those at at time. Often this will lead to a Microsoft knowledge article or other useful internet links. These are codes that mean something and you can search them.
PS I don't like the look of all the disk errors, sometimes the things have a few bad sectors and it stays that way for ages, then they suddenly start cascading throughout your hard drive. If I were you, I would be devoting my day to making sure you have a backup of all your essential data onto an external hard drive or DVD or whatever. Especially drivers.
PPS On re-reading your post, I'm not sure whether you are referring to a disk scan - for hard drives, or a memory test - for RAM. If it was the disk scan for hard drives, then what I said above applies. Backups are always a good strategy anyway, when a machine is playing up, it's saved my butt on more than one occasion.
Quote from: Gastfyr on 2008 October 03, 21:51:17
Thanks everyone for your advice. So far, my husband and are are pretty sure it's not the nVidia crasch bug, since that apparently goes to an empty bule screen, but my BSOD always has writing on it. We updated our drivers anyway.
My NVidia crashes did not go to an empty screen. I used to get errors like yours with the hex numbers. Often they had dx (I think it was dx, it was a while ago) somewhere which usually indicates video issues. Just upgrading the driver isn't always the answer to NVidia problems either, sometimes you have to go back a driver or two to find one that works.
snowbawl:
I googled because I am bored. Stop: 0x0000008E errors are most likely RAM-related. If you were receiving umptimillion errors while doing a memory check...then...yeah. But go ahead and google for yourself, there are many hits, and many different causes/solutions; research to find which best suits your situation. Oh, and I would definitely heed witch's advice.
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