HL2 causes blue screen and reboot

[chip]

Hi.
I get a blue screen and after a couple of seconds the pc reboots. The first time this bug happened was when I tried to run HL2 in a window. The second time I was playing full-screen and it happened on the point where you get past the trains and enter a building on 'Red Letter Day'.

Have enybody else had this problem?
I suspect it might be a RAM-related problem.
Any other suggestions?
I set the heapsize to 100000 in steam.

My specs are:
AmD Athlon 1800+
256 Mb RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.
Windows XP

 

[Luke0086]

Hi.
I get a blue screen and after a couple of seconds the pc reboots. The first time this bug happened was when I tried to run HL2 in a window. The second time I was playing full-screen and it happened on the point where you get past the trains and enter a building on 'Red Letter Day'.

Have enybody else had this problem?
I suspect it might be a RAM-related problem.
Any other suggestions?
I set the heapsize to 100000 in steam.

My specs are:
AmD Athlon 1800+
256 Mb RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.
Windows XP

a LOT of people are having this problem and me also. It happens with both ATI and Nvidia cards.

 

[TEDR]

pays to right down what that blue screen of death is telling u and look it up. this is normally hardware fault of some sort, but can be drivers sometimes

 

[Beavis]

Some of us don't get an error. It just locks up and then reboots.

I have looked in the error logs for Winblows and as far as it is concerned the magic Valve fairies came down and hit my reset button.

 

[michaelsil1]

Are you Overclocking your System?

 

[Beavis]

Mine is completely stock.

I have tried everything I can think of to get this game stable. Heck, I even downloaded DirectX 9 and installed it again. You know what is crazy? I did the Direct X thing and rebooted the machine. Started CS:S and played for over an hour. I was so pumped because I thought I was onto something here. I shut the machine down for about 20 minutes and then tried CS:S again and low and behold the game crashed before I could even look at a server list.