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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: VISCONTI on October 30, 2000, 06:10:00 AM

Title: W2k, blue screen
Post by: VISCONTI on October 30, 2000, 06:10:00 AM

I have read that is possible to play AH in w2k professional.

P-II 333
128MB
Nvidia riva TNT2 Model 64 32MB

When I start AH i see only a blue screen.
Can someone help me?

Title: W2k, blue screen
Post by: Staga on October 30, 2000, 06:33:00 AM

After trying Win ME I changed back to W2K and it works just fine in my computer (P3 700@933 256Mb, Prophet2 MX and SB-live).

Is the "Blue screen of death" showing any messages in top of it?
I got some problems 'cause I installed W2K over ME without formatting HD first but after I formatted my hd and made "clean" install It have worked great.


[This message has been edited by Staga (edited 10-30-2000).]

Title: W2k, blue screen
Post by: Hamish on October 30, 2000, 06:50:00 AM

Don't know if this will help, or not, but i got a blue screen when i tried to select 32 bit video with my Voodoo 3 2000. all i had to do was delete the video.cfg file, and the next time i went into AH it asked me to select the video options just like when you first install it.

good luck!

Hamish!

Title: W2k, blue screen
Post by: VISCONTI on October 30, 2000, 09:53:00 AM

All settings show only a blue screen whitout any message.
When i select Z buffer i see an error message :

Initialization failed whit -3 mainGR3D_FAILED -3

I have Win98 2nd ed. and W2k installed in my PC, all HD are FAT32 formatted. In Win98 is all ok at all settings.

Title: W2k, blue screen
Post by: Lephturn on October 30, 2000, 06:27:00 PM

Check this:
 http://www.maximumpc.com/content/2000/10/30/12123 (http://www.maximumpc.com/content/2000/10/30/12123)

You don't have a VIA chipset.. dang.  I was hoping this was the ticket for you.  :/  Sorry.

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Title: W2k, blue screen
Post by: Sancho on October 31, 2000, 04:25:00 PM

Man, that's really wierd.  My brother also had a blue screen with no message covering the top half of the screen.  This occurred about 1 out of 3 times starting AH under Win2k.

I have never had this problem, and I use Win2k exclusively.  Strangeness....