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paganlord
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Hi. I searched the forum and saw similar problems but no solution, but hopefully someone has licked this already.
My system:
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI-F6 moboard, latest drivers from Nvidia
Athlon FX55
PNY Quadro 3400 PCIe videocard, 71.24 drivers
4GB 3200 RAM
WD 75GB 10k boot drive SATA
1x300GB,1x250GB, 2x250GB RAID0 SATA drives
Sony DRU-500A IDE DVDRW drive
Apple 30 inch monitor
WinXP SP2, brand new install, DX9c
Halflife 2 DVD Edition (I try to install HL2, HL1, CS)
(DVD had worked fine on my prior machine, which had
FireGL X3-256 at 2560x1600 so I don't think it should bomb
on the resolution and anyway the default is 1280x800)
I've run 3dmark05 and it runs fine, so I don't think there's anything obviously unstable with my setup.
Here's the problem. First I installed off of DVD - Steam installed just fine, then went to HL2. The machine variously hung with BSOD and "machine_check" error or just hung on Sharedcontent.gcf.
So I then logged into Steam and used my account (already registered from my prior machine) to dowload the whole HL2 set from Valve itself last night, thinking maybe somehow the DVD got scratched or something.
When I tried it today it got past the Valve screen and went to the 'fuzzy' screen where it loads and then becomes clear when finished. This time however it hangs on that Loading screen, such that cntrl-alt-delete doesn't even work - mouse cursor works fine though. I tried this a few times.
Any help at all would be appreciated.
thx
My system:
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI-F6 moboard, latest drivers from Nvidia
Athlon FX55
PNY Quadro 3400 PCIe videocard, 71.24 drivers
4GB 3200 RAM
WD 75GB 10k boot drive SATA
1x300GB,1x250GB, 2x250GB RAID0 SATA drives
Sony DRU-500A IDE DVDRW drive
Apple 30 inch monitor
WinXP SP2, brand new install, DX9c
Halflife 2 DVD Edition (I try to install HL2, HL1, CS)
(DVD had worked fine on my prior machine, which had
FireGL X3-256 at 2560x1600 so I don't think it should bomb
on the resolution and anyway the default is 1280x800)
I've run 3dmark05 and it runs fine, so I don't think there's anything obviously unstable with my setup.
Here's the problem. First I installed off of DVD - Steam installed just fine, then went to HL2. The machine variously hung with BSOD and "machine_check" error or just hung on Sharedcontent.gcf.
So I then logged into Steam and used my account (already registered from my prior machine) to dowload the whole HL2 set from Valve itself last night, thinking maybe somehow the DVD got scratched or something.
When I tried it today it got past the Valve screen and went to the 'fuzzy' screen where it loads and then becomes clear when finished. This time however it hangs on that Loading screen, such that cntrl-alt-delete doesn't even work - mouse cursor works fine though. I tried this a few times.
Any help at all would be appreciated.
thx
