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Eh? http://www.google.fi/search?q=%22Windows+XP+SP3%22&btnG=Hae&hl=fi

Fyi, wrong thread. Update your video card drivers. http://www.rtcw.jolt.co.uk/content/faq/rtcw_faq.html#openglsubsystem Games -XP Games -NT4,2000 9x/ME

Also download Hijack this. See the hijackthis quick start, for how to use it. Paste the log file here, when you have scanned your system. Download McAfee AVERT Stinger, utility used to detect and remove specific viruses.

Well, you can always reformat the disk... (Just copy all files from it e.g. to other drive, if you do so.) In WinXP, you can execute following command for your disk you want to format (replace the "z:" to your drive): "format z: /FS:FAT32"

DirectX: Quote: http://www.ntcompatible.com/faq-16.html Can I fool a game into thinking that Windows 2000 has an older DirectX version? Yes, "apcompat.exe" in the support directory of the Windows 2000 CD has the ability to make a game thinking that an older version of DirectX is installed. Windows: Quote: Enable Compatibility Mode Properties The Compatibility-mode technology is not exposed by default. To enable an interface so that you can use this technology for your programs after you apply Windows 2000 SP2 or SP3: 1. Log on as Administrator. 2. Click Start, and then click Run. 3.In the Open box, type the following command, and then click OK, where %SystemRoot% is the drive and folder in which Windows is installed: regsvr32 %systemroot%\apppatch\slayerui.dll Quote: Use Compatibility Mode Properties 1.Log on as Administrator. 2.Right-click the shortcut, and then click Properties. 3.Click Compatibility. This tab appears only if the Compatibility-mode interface has been properly enabled on the computer. 4.Click to select the Run in Compatibility Mode check box to enable Compatibility-mode support for the program. 5.Click either Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 compatibility mode in the drop-down box. 6.Click OK to save the changes. 7.Double-click the shortcut to run the program. Quote: NOTE: Be careful if you use Compatibility mode to bypass version warnings in Setup or installation programs. Some programs are designed for a specific operating system and intentionally prohibit use on future versions. These are frequently system-level programs that run at a very low level and have the potential to cause serious problems if installed. How to install the Windows 2000 Support Tools to a Windows 2000 Description of the Application Compatibility Tool Edited by Wilhelmus: added links.

Download "Hijack this" from: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/. Unzip and start it, then click "Do a system scan only" button. When it is finished scanning, click "Save log" button. Save the "hijackthis.log" file to desktop and post it contents to here.

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Error code 1000008e = "KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M" Most of newsgroup comments about this stop error point to faulty hardware or drivers. The hardware varies from modems, video cards, USB device to memory or sound cards. Sometimes it proves to be hardware that it is not compatible with Windows XP. It could be your video adapter. Update its drivers. Make sure it is propely plugged in the bus(PCI/AGP). Try another, eg. borrow from friend. Run "chkdsk /p /r" via Recovery Console. Check your CPU temperatures. Update your motherboard drivers. Disabling memory caching of the BIOS might also resolve the error. Update your BIOS. Click Start->Run and execute "verifier". Click Next, Next and let it scan your system for "non-signed"/"unsigned" drivers (I have finnish language XP, so I cannot say what that is in english ). In the list you will see all unsigned drivers, try up[censored] those.

Download HijackThis from http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/. Scan your system and post the log here. There is program called LSP-Fix, which "repairs Winsock 2 settings, caused by buggy or improperly-removed Internet software, that result in loss of Internet access", and viruses I have fixed some broken connections with it, but I cannot guarantee that it will work on your PC, but you can try. You can download it from: http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm.

1. Insert the Microsoft Windows XP CD. 2. Make sure you boot from CD (possibly select the option for this via your BIOS setup (by pressing the appropriate key (e.g. F2,F12,DEL) when starting up your computer, then selecting in the setup screen that you start first from CD (and then from harddisk or floppy). 3. You get then in the welcome screen. 4. Press 'R' for repair. 'To repair a Windows XP installation ...' 5. Then press '1', then give Administrator password and press Enter, if it is blank, just press Enter. 7. You will get to command prompt, type "chkdsk /p /r" without quotes. Chkdsk will now check your harddrive for bad sectors and other disk/file system errors.

Lets start with the 98SE error: SYMPTOMS Quote: If your computer has 1 gigabyte (GB) or more of random-access memory (RAM) installed, Windows may not start. Also, when you try to start your computer, you may receive the following error message: Insufficient memory to initialize Windows. Quit one or more memory-resident programs or remove unnecessary utilities from your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, and restart your computer. This behavior may also occur during Windows Setup, or when you try to start Windows for the first time. RESOLUTION Quote: To work around this issue, add the following line to the [386enh] section of the System.ini file: MaxPhysPage=30000 This limits the amount of physical RAM that Windows can access to 768 MB. To do so, use the following steps: 1. Use any text editor (such as Notepad) to edit the System.ini file. 2. Add the following line in the [386Enh] section of the file MaxPhysPage=30000 3. Save the file, and then restart your computer. If this problem occurs during Windows Setup, use the following steps to resolve the issue: 1. Restart your computer. When you see the "Starting Windows 95" message, press the F8 key, and then choose Command Prompt Only from the Startup menu. For Windows 98, restart your computer, press and hold down the CTRL key until the Startup menu appears, and then choose Command Prompt Only. 2. Change to the folder into which you are attempting to install Windows. 3. Edit the System.ini file. To do so, type edit system.ini, and then press ENTER. 4. Add the following line in the [386Enh] section of the file MaxPhysPage=30000 5. Save the file, and then restart your computer. Windows Setup should continue. Now the dual-booting issue. Basic rule of dual-booting installation is that you install older Windows first, then the newer Windows will detect the older and set the configurations for dual-booting. Partition the HD into 2 partitions, as you did. Format the first partition to FAT32. Leave the 2 partition as is, do not format it. Install 98SE to FAT32 partition, Boot-up with XP CD and start setup. Then select the unformated partition from list, format it to NTFS and install XP to it. Do not know why the XP wanted install to F:, perhaps your partitioning program did something wrong?

Quote: Error Reading Drive G:\. The disk might be scratched or damaged. My CD-ROM(Samsung)does not need driver updates.... Does your CD drive read other CDs?

Make sure that HL is fully updated/downloaded, before you try to start it. I started HL before Steam was finished up[censored] it and HL hanged to loading screen. Had to terminate processes of HL2 and Steam. Then I restarted Steam and it started/continued up[censored] process. I waited for Steam saying that Offline mode is ready and then started HL and it did not hang to Loading screen.

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Well, I have this system and HL2 DVD version works w/ medium settings. Quote: Intel Pentium IIIE, 815 MHz 512MB SDRAM, 133MHz NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (64 MB,AGP,DX9) Quote: Can't get Half life 2 to load What kinda error it gives? Or what it does when you try to start it?

Quote: Well, actually by default XP uses software OpenGL which works alright if you have a fast enough processor. I wouldn't say "XP's default drivers are bad for opengl" because XP doesn't include the OGL ICD's for specific video chipsets, just the generic software opengl32.dll file. OK

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Quote: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767 RESOLUTION To resolve this issue: 1. Insert the XP CD into the CD drive or DVD drive. 2. Click Start, and then click Run. 3. In the Open box, type cmd, and then click OK. 4. At the command prompt, type the following commands, pressing ENTER after each command: expand CD-ROM Drive Letter:\i386\config.nt_ c:\windows\system32\config.nt expand CD-ROM Drive Letter:\i386\autoexec.nt_ c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt expand CD-ROM Drive Letter:\i386\command.co_ c:\windows\system32\command.com exit 5. Start or install the program. If the issue is resolved, do not complete the remaining steps. If the issue is not resolved, go to the next step. 6. Note: The Command.com file is not edited or created in this in the following process. Because of this, you may have to expand it from your Windows XP CD-ROM. Start Notepad. 7. In Notepad, type the following entries: dos=high, umb device=%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\himem.sys files=40 8. On the File menu, click Save As. 9. In the File Name box, type Config.nt, and then click Save. Close the Config.nt file. 10. On the File menu, click New. 11. In the new blank document, type the following entries: @echo off lh %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\mscdexnt.exe lh %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\redir lh %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\dosx SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3 12. On the File menu, click Save As. 13. In the File Name box, type Autoexec.nt, and then click Save. Close the Autoexec.nt file. 14. Start Windows Explorer. Locate the Config.nt file, right-click the Config.nt file, and then click Copy. 15. Right-click the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 folder, and then click Paste. 16. Locate the Autoexec.nt file, right-click the Autoexec.nt file, and then click Copy. 17. Right-click the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 folder, and then click Paste. 18. Locate the Command.com file, right-click the expanded Command.com file, and then click Copy. 19. Right-click the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 folder, and then click Paste. Restart your computer.

Copy the contents of following quote box to notepad and save as "fault.reg". Then double click it and let windows to import it to registry. Quote: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Fault] "LogFile"="C:\\FAULTLOG.TXT" Reboot. Now start GTAVC. If it faults, then it SHOULD write the fault information to "C:\FAULTLOG.TXT". Quote: cracked version of the game executable so i can play without the CD..... can this cause any problems..... I read from some forums that pirated version cause errors... Can you get replacement for your CD from store you bougth it? Quote: Does this mean i need to update the drivers??? or??.... You can try update your drivers.

If you do not have the recovery certificate, then you have a problem... but you could try some thrid-party program to recover your file. Advanced EFS Data Recovery by Elcomsoft - "Try before buy". Advanced EFS Reader 2.0 by Passware - Free demo version of EFS Key allows to preview encrypted files while copying is not available. All other features are in place. So you could use the EFS Key to preview your text file and then find out the password you are looking from the file. Good luck!

Also, fix this: Quote: O23 - Service: C-DillaCdaC11BA - Macrovision - C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\CDAC11BA.EXE

Update your graphics driver. XP's default drivers are bad for opengl. https://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/activision.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=7778 http://www.rtcw.jolt.co.uk/content/faq/rtcw_faq.html#openglsubsystem

When you get to Windows, copy and paste the following quote box contents to notepad and save it to "admin.reg", eg. to desktop. Then double click the file to import it to registry. Quote: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList] "Administrator"=dword:00000001 Reboot. Now there should be Administrator account on logon screen.

In My Computer, right-click on the CDr-drive, then click Properties. There should be “Recording” page with a check box to “Enable Recording on this drive”, make sure this box is checked. There is no recording page Update for CD Burners, referred to in Microsoft Knowledge Base article #320174. My CD drives have vanished (from Explorer, Device Manager, etc. Quote: This happens quite often if one of the third-party packages has been uninstalled. They add references in the Registry for modules which they use, and these references fail to be removed, leaving Windows unable to find the files apparently needed for CD devices at the next boot. There is a simple Registry patch to correct this (download it here). Before using the patch, be sure to back up the Registry. After using the patch and rebooting, the drives should reappear. Any third party package that is still required will then need to be re-installed. This problem also may arise if there is underlying trouble with the Input-Output system of the machine: for example, interactions with controllers like Promise or Highpoint, or with special drivers. It may be worth trying a change in the DMA settings for the device in Control Panel | System | Hardware | Device Manager. Under IDE controllers, double click on the Primary or Secondary IDE Channel concerned, then click the tab for the Advanced Settings page. How to troubleshoot issues that occur wh... in Windows XP.