Windows Halflife Error - Instant reboot.

Started playing halflife again recently, and until now it's been fine, despite the loss of my graphics card and subesquent reliance on 8megs of on board.

Now it's instantly rebooting whenever I click HL or Team fortress. (Don't have CS)

Nothing has changed since I played it yesterday.

Search turned up nothing of value.

Any help on this problem that has (searching lets me know that much at least) affected people before would be appreciated.

XP Pro, now 8Mb on board, 512Mb RAM.

- H.

PS: If possible, I would like to avoid reinstalling and/or formatting.

 

Maybe 8MB isn't even enough memory to play HL?

I have no idea just a wild stab i nthe dark

 

*Was* working fine.

Edit - I get a monitor 'clunk' as it changes it's preset, then reboot, it that's any help.

- H.

 

8mb for half life!!! it'll be steaming along with such a collossal amount!

it runs spot on with my old 4mb so that aint ur problem (runs even better on my 9600xt tho )

its not gonna kill u to reinstall it. just make a back up of ur game save folder and the weapon mods folder (surely uve changed at least 1 of them....)

 

No, but I'll look into it.

reinstalling shortly, will tell you how it goes.

- H.

 

well u can try -theyre damn hard to get hold of these days...

mine:
crowbar - xmas tree or a 2x4 with a nail in it
pistol - nintendo light gun
mp5 - m41a (the gun from aliens, this is the daddy of weapon mods imo)
satchels - xmas presents
snarks - the facehuggers from aliens
gauss cannon - hyperblaster from quake
gluon gun - star trek phaser

 

They sound interesting lacuna.

On another note, even though I've reinstalled in (on another hard drive) it still gives me an instant reboot.

- H.

 

I know you've re-installed but have you tried starting a new game maybe theres something wrong with the saved game or does it not get that far before it crashes.

 

:thread: - here he is!!!
In other words, I don't get a chance to load anything but XP.

- H.

 

no your thinking

 

no, he's thinking read the thread.

hmm. perhaps drivers are borked? try removing mobo/graphics drivers and reinstalling. oh, and disable auto-rebooting in mycomp properties, so we can see what's actually causing the BSOD.

 

OK, turned off automatic rebooting (forgot about that ) and here's the codes I get:

0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x000000010F, 0xF1B3DCC8, 0x00000000)

Any light you can shed on thast little lot would be appreciated.

- H.

 

what about the actual error name?

found this KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827663

google is your friend!

 

Yeah, ummm, SP2... *scratches head* it's serving as a coaster...

on another note, I have a new sig:
When you run Microsoft Windows, you may randomly receive an error message on a blue screen...

- H.

 

I had a quick look for the error code you posted some ones already posted the microsoft article but heres another link

http://www.iamnotageek.com/history/topic.php/77521-1.html

to people who had the same problem