milli vanilli Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 mmk, this machine is barely a month old and already having problems. had a DOA 9500 gt GPU so i installed the onboard, amd 4200 HD. ran COD4 fine. however, just surfing the web and alt + tab from facebook to here i got a BSOD for atidvag getting stuck in an infinate loop. all i'm finding online says update drivers. well, they are updated, lol. any one have any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyeDarkhawk Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Try going in the opposite direction for the drivers. Try the previous version instead, there might be a compatibility issue with the latest drivers and some of your hardware, or it was installed incorrectly. Completely uninstall your current Catalyst software suite, and any nVidia software that might be left over, and try installing the next to latest version of the Catalyst Software suite with Parallel Processing for your operating system (32 or 64 bit). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saizou Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Does it give any VPU recovery stuff or it just goes straight to BSOD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milli vanilli Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 straight to BSOD. a little system info XP pro SP3 Phenom quad core 2.5 no over clocking 4gig Centon DDR2 (huh, just looked and XP is only seeing 2.75 gig o.O) running the onboard graphics, radeon 4200 HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyeDarkhawk Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 You're running fairly nice hardware on fairly crappy OS instructions. If you can, get a 64bit operating system, the easiest to grab would probably be Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for around 120 USD. Windows XP does not have the insides to handle your hardware. Right now, you've got a really nice sports car being driven by a blind old man. Time to upgrade your OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milli vanilli Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 i kinda figured. but right now, even $12usd is too much to pay for a new OS, as i got laid off friday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyeDarkhawk Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 That's a huge bummer. You could still go for the Home Upgrade pack for 3 PCs, it's 150 USD typically, should be 129 USD at Staples in the US. If you can find two other people that need Windows 7, you can each go in for about 50 bucks each to get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milli vanilli Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 That's a huge bummer. You could still go for the Home Upgrade pack for 3 PCs, it's 150 USD typically, should be 129 USD at Staples in the US. If you can find two other people that need Windows 7, you can each go in for about 50 bucks each to get it. found a way around it...sending my DOA 9500 gt back and getting a refund, and getting OEM 7 64bit home for only $5 more. so its only costing me 5 for 7. stupid question to go with it tho...when i reformat my HDD, will i have new GUID's for my games, or will i have the same one after i reinstall them? can i save my profiles to cd and load them from there, or won't that work since its going from xp to 7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saizou Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 found a way around it...sending my DOA 9500 gt back and getting a refund, and getting OEM 7 64bit home for only $5 more. so its only costing me 5 for 7. stupid question to go with it tho...when i reformat my HDD, will i have new GUID's for my games, or will i have the same one after i reinstall them? can i save my profiles to cd and load them from there, or won't that work since its going from xp to 7? Not sure about COD4, but same profile should work on both OS I suppose. For ET I have the same installation that survived 2 OS changes (from XP to Win7 and back, including the reformat, but I backed up important stuff on another HDD) and 2 motherboard changes, and it worked on all of them. But you only need etkey to keep the same admin and GUID in ET. For other games depends where profile info is saved but burning them to CD/backing ithem up on USB/ emailing them if they aren't too large to yourself should do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyeDarkhawk Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 You can use the Windows 7 Easy Transfer wizard on the CD to make a complete backup of all your files, documents, and some programs. Just make sure you copy your game installs and your entire Documents and Settings folder to make sure you keep all your original GUIDs and install keys. But the worst you'll lose if you don't keep them is your XP, admin levels, and unlocks for games like COD. If you use the Transfer wizard, make sure you use the one for Windows 7 and not the built in one for Windows XP. Windows 7 cannot open the File and Settings Transfer wizard backup files; I learned this the hard way with my wife's laptop. However, it did still keep a copy in Windows.old and I still can open the backup on another Windows XP system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milli vanilli Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 mmmmmk, got 7 64 up and running. and now COD4 won't even start... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyeDarkhawk Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 You're running it as Administrator, right? Also: http://www.filefront.com/10829906/Call-of-Duty-4-Modern-Warfare-v1.7-Patch/ You did patch to the latest patch, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milli vanilli Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 no, cause our servers run 1.6 . but yes, I am admin. ET works fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyeDarkhawk Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Ah; well, you installed COD4 first, then copied your files over, right? You didn't just copy your files and try running it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milli vanilli Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 i tried to run it naked, without copying files over... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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