HL2

[spunky5150]

I am sick to the back of teeth of HL2, not due to the fact that all the wonderful levels we were promised and weapons aren't there no. It's purely for the fact that it crashes continually!! and no one at steam can seem to help.

xp3200
Asus A7N8x Deluxe
1.5Gig 3200 hyper x
x800 pro

More than enough to play this game at full spec and I've had to limit my ram to 166Mhz in order for it to play properly!! Miffed I am

I'll go back to my corner

 

[bjpatrick]

What OS are you running and what is your video card. HL@ has not crashed on me one time and its really stable. Their might be a problem with your OS or one of those 5 install CDs might have a corrupt file on it. Something is wrong either way but you are the first person that I have been have problems with Steam!

 

[Wolfy]

As much as I hate HL2 it never once crashed on me for the 3 days I played it.

"Its only when you look at ants closely with a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realise how often they burst into flames"

 

[dhlucke]

Do you have a legit version of the game? Have you tried playing your game on another PC?

What are you temps? Try taking your case cover off and blowing a house fan in your case and then playing the game.

That's where I'd start.

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[spunky5150]

In answer to your q's

XP PRO legit
ATi stock x800pro catalyst 5.1
And yes, it's a bought and paid for dvd retail HL2
Oh and temps, case temp 20oC and cpu 40..............YES 40oC. I got a zalman CL7700 and it's as silent as an Iraqi in a pair of sponge clogs!!!
I can't figure it out!!! When I change the ram bus to 166 it's as stable as a koala up a tree but switch to 200 dual channel and it's like trying to fry a fish in a freezer!!
PISSES ME OFF!!

Anyway

cheers

 

[Kronos]

Now those were some great lines! "Frying fish in a freezer" I gotta remember them! 😉

I want to die like my Grandfather...in my sleep...not screaming in terror like his passengers.

 

[folken]

You are probably one of the lucky ones like me. I have never seen an nforce2 board do 200fsb. I tried 3 diff nforce 2 mobos (a7n8x, lanparty ultra b, ga-7n400 pro), 2 diff 3200 procs, 1 3000 proc, 2 2500 procs, 1 2600 mobile proc, lots of diff sets of ram (various 3200 and 3500 sticks from diff brands including corsair xms, ocz, mushkin, samsung, etc), 4 diff power supplies, tons of vid cards, etc and I never once could get a machine to run at 200fsb.

Consider yourself lucky that it just has probs runnin hl2, I could hardly even post 🙁

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[SoDNighthawk]

Do you have the motherboard jumper set to 400Mhz front side buss ? It is factory set to 400 but perhaps you moved it. It has 3 pins top 2 closest to the CPU is 400 bottom two pins are 300 and below MHz.

You also will auto run Dual Channel on your memory if you have 2 sticks installed.

Typical of that board with DDR ram and an XP2800+ is 116 MHz Memory speed and 2.20 GHz for CPU speed @ 178.

Your CPU should run 400 MHz with DDR ram at around 200 MHz RAM speed with no problems unless your RAM is not Matched memory.

You have three memory slots make sure you use slot (1) and slot (2).

If you have been, try removing the stick in slot (2) see if the game crashes ? If it does not crash then your RAM is not a perfect match. Or try placing 1 stick in slot three and the other stick in slot (1)

Game crashing on that motherboard is RAM related. It is very picky about the manufacturer and speed settings for that memory. If you hear the computer post some times reporting at post that it failed memory test at boot-up that is your problem.

Go here and download and use the MS free memory test.
<A HREF="http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp" target="_new">http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp</A>
Run the program and select to make a floppy copy of it.
Restart your system with the floppy in the drive and the program will auto run 6 memory checks taking about 5 minutes.
This will at least rule out if you have a RAM issue.

Now remember your memory might not be physically bad it simply might not be a match for your motherboard. Even if it claims it is.

Also if your memory passes the MS memory test try setting your RAM speed in the BIOS to 7,2,2,2.5

If you are overclocking your CPU on that board this will also cause HL2 to crash. Set the CPU back to default speed around 2.2 I believe and HL2 will probably run perfectly. Later work it back up the clock scale as far as you can without crashing HL2.

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[spunky5150]

Ok, so I've checked the memory and ................
it's failed both MATS+ and I think it was VMATS+ tests. So, does this mean that my ram IS incompatible and therefore I should sell it and get some new ram that is compatible?
Cheers

 

[Coyote]

Hey Spunky,

I don't know what the fellow is about claiming he can't run an nForce2 mobo @ 200/400 mhz. Mines @ 215/430. P95 and memtest86 stable for 24hrs plus (got ot to 220/440mhz, but failed memtest86 on the 24th hr)

Anyway, you show 1.5gigs of ram. . I'm guessing you've got three sticks of 512MB. Take out one. Run two sticks of 512MB and see if it improves. Your DC mem controller is unbalanced currently with 3 sticks each of same size.

Mobile XP 2600+ (11X215)
Abit NF7-S v 2.0
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200LL
BBA 9800 Pro
Enermax Noisetaker 420 watts
Win2K sp4

 

[spunky5150]

You'll never believe it!?!?!? I took out one stick of 512 and tada, it's only crashed once. The original 1gb of ram were matched 512's so I'm assuming that by chucking in another 512 made the boarda bit bonkers?? Is there any remedy for this or am I stuck with a 512 stick for sale on e-bay?
Cheers Coyote

 

[Coyote]

Well glad its working better And sorry to say I don't know of a fix.

Mobile XP 2600+ (11X215)
Abit NF7-S v 2.0
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200LL
BBA 9800 Pro
Enermax Noisetaker 420 watts
Win2K sp4

 

[spunky5150]

THIS is the last time I'll post about this subject cuz I've taken the decision to sell and get a new system but. I've just checked my psu and it's an Antec True Power 430W. Could it be an issue with not having enough power to the system or am I being a fanny???
Later

 

[pauldh]

I have your same power supply, Antec TruePower 430W, with 4-80mm case fans, 2 optical drives, 1 SATA HDD, A MSI K8N neo2 platinum, 1GB (2*512MB) Corsair PC4000, and a GF6800 Ultra, and haven't had power or stability issues at all. And the BFG 6800 Ultra OC says 480W PS in the min sys req. Not a solution for you, just stating that when functioning properly, that PS can handle a pretty decent load including the 6800U even.



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[sparky853]

Your problem was the third stick of RAM. Dual Channel only works with 2 or 4 stick of RAM, not 3. Thus the "DUAL CHANNEL"

AMD 64 3200+, MSI K8T Neo2, 1GB Dual-Channel DDR400, ATI R9800PRO 128MB, TT PurePower 420W, LG DVD+-R/RW

 

[spunky5150]

An interesting point but, I've managed to get the machine working perfectly with all 3 sticks. A simple matter of reducing the FSB by 2MHz has done the trick and taken the advice of others and bumped the voltage to 2.7v.
Cheers though